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    The fire and backpan had been removed and refitted at some time prior to me opening and stripping down the safe, but I am confident this was the original lock to the safe.
    Thanks for the dating info safeman, still more secure than a lot of the modern rubbish made nowadays.

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    The reason I mentioned that is that I, and several others whom I know, would salvage locks from common models of safes. Keys are then cut for these at quiet times. Then when rekeying a safe for a customer is simply a case of removing his original lock and replacing it with an identical model which has been ready cleaned, serviced and keyed.

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    Chubby, I think everyone in the trade does similar with locks pre-done to save time tbh, but how many 'identical' pre-done Milners did you hold in order to guarantee a perfect simple swap every time? We used to see enough dimensional variations on the 6-point fixings and the keyways which were minute but often enough to frustrate a time saving swap on site.

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    Fair comment.

    I remember reading in George Price's book how he explained about standardising dimensions. It seems that it just didn't happen. It seems strange to modern thinking.

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    Agree with Huw on the Milners ,not often I have replaced locks rather than rekeyed them, but when I have, they have been just different enough to be a pain. I would normally only go to the bother nowadays if it was to get a collectable lock off.

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