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    Default Postal Padlock Help

    Purchased three postal padlocks a while back and was able to find a key for the rotary lock and made a push key for the street letterbox lock, but have not been able to come up with a key for the small silver mail bag lock. Can someone here help me obtain a key for this? Thanks in advance.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arkville View Post
    Purchased three postal padlocks a while back and was able to find a key for the rotary lock and made a push key for the street letterbox lock, but have not been able to come up with a key for the small silver mail bag lock. Can someone here help me obtain a key for this? Thanks in advance.
    Apparently uses a common "barrel" key like shown in the image:
    http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/eba...0595788647.jpg
    You will need to find a similar blank that might fit and modify to suit. See Sec. 7 Introduction and Sec. 7, Pg. 7 of Ilco Key Blank Directory, 12th Edition, pdf at the link:
    http://www.ilco.us/media/853776/v5/F...rrel-sec-7.pdf









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    Default How I made keys

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    From left to right, First i made patterns from steel bits.
    Then I cast the keys in Kirksite (a zinc alloy) using steel cores to create centered starter holes.
    Third is finishing the blanks, and finally filed into a working key.

    RG

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    very nice,you put a lot of work into this and it looks very good.
    nice work

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