What do you do with miscuts?

by **vector40** » 23 Jan 2007 5:06

Yeah... the soda's the real problem.

by **ldnlksmth** » 25 Jan 2007 17:34

Old pins, levers and anything else can also be recycled.

I had a customer come in one time and ask for some old keys for her young daughter to play with, because the mother kept losing hers. I took a few out of the scrap bin, put them on a gimmie-ring and she paid me $5 for it. Said it was less expensive than not being able to find her working keys every day.

by **I Pik U** » 27 Jan 2007 11:14

We re-use when posable, otherwise recycle them as well.

Last time I went to the recycling place, the guy dumped it all into a large garbage can. He then tried to move it! No go. :lol:

by **ldnlksmth** » 29 Jan 2007 23:21

I just did a job for a local charitable organization. They aquired about 100 Medeco cylinders from a city building that was decommissioned (they bought all new equipment) and a box of keys.

I re-pinned the cylinders, re-cut the keys to the opposite orientation (aft/fore) and made it possible for this charity that would otherwise not be able to control access to their building (they issued about 35 schlage keys, and we counted 85 come back in). The keys don't look like much, but they get the job done.

by **dab** » 30 Jan 2007 21:34

traded in 2 years of old miscuts and brass shavings for $175 usd

by **77luke** » 11 Feb 2007 6:00

dab wrote:traded in 2 years of old miscuts and brass shavings for $175 usd

Speaking of brass shavings- has anyone found a use for all the shavings aside from recycling them?

by **Varjeal** » 12 Feb 2007 12:10

Talk to school teachers who may want them for class projects.

by **Biaxial Ranger** » 16 Feb 2007 13:04

Recycling for money is the norm, but I actually met up with a woman who ran a booth at the Saturday market in Eugene. We developed a partnership using old miscuts and defects and making Windchimes out of them. It was only extra money but free profit from garbage is well worth it everytime. She eventually branched off to other crafts using keys and lock parts as well, birdhouses, pond buoys, etc. Just a thought...

by **Mr. Glass** » 24 Feb 2007 13:42

We had this really weird artist who would come in and pick up our blanks duds every couple of months or so. Never did find out what she did with them though.

by **87ELC2** » 6 Mar 2007 11:21

Our miscuts go straight into the recycling bucket, along with stripped locks and cylinders, old brass hinges and exit device parts salvaged from replacement work, pins, shavings and whatever else we can find.

Our 5-man shop easily recycles 500+ lbs. every six months.

by **Ermis** » 6 Mar 2007 15:00

I have so many old brass cylinders and mis cuts, full boxes of keys, i must have over a ton of un used stuff laying around here. I think i will recycle / sell it.

To answer the question, miscuts land in a bucket and get collected over the years into larger buckets. But we recycle alot of keys, any keys that come with locks we re-key to existing keys we reuse as "originals" when we show up to re-key a house or building and they want a new key. So basically we turn around and re-sell it from our shop anyways.

by **2octops** » 8 Mar 2007 2:15

You're a member of British Columbia Association of School Psychologists?

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