Key cutting shortcut - anyone tried this?

[Growster]

Twice a year, we usually receive an order for 500 keys, for a little switch or something.

 

It's tedious work, and it contributes little to my dream of an Aston Martin - these are cheap keys.

 

To speed up the cutting for what I suspect is a forgiving lock, could one not load 2 blanks at the same time?

 

It should be possible to calculate the inaccuracy this would produce.

[grahamparker]

Did that once when we had 2500 Cisa 5 pin keys to cut, had to adjust the cutter depth by about 20/30 thou to make sure depth was ok.

 

Using 2 machines we managed to pin up 35 cylinders k.a. cut,brush,check count and box up everything in a single day.

 

That was over 20 years ago and it still feels like yesterday one of the most laborious tasks we have undertaken.

[Growster]

You mentioning rushing leads to the next shortcut:

 

I have not yet not brushed cylinder keys. Big amounts of tiddler keys I would just shake, rattle and roll in a box, so that they take off swarf and pointiness by themselves. 

 

That seems to work, haven't dared it with cylinder keys yet

[grahamparker]

Always wire brush all keys although not with any pressure we have an 8" bench Grinder that we use that can run for 8 hours constant if required. Did cost well over 1k though.

 

Don't brush safe keys always finish them by hand

[Michael]

I used to do this on my old Rigel machine and was ok but would get the odd pair back.

Don't bother now with the Bravo Pro, quick enough as it is!!