Best Place to Buy Mortise Cylinders

[logosyn]

I want to buy some cylinders with various keyways / brands in order to practice. In your experience, where is the best place to get them? Thanks.

-Logo

[Squelchtone]

I want to buy some cylinders with various keyways / brands in order to practice. In your experience, where is the best place to get them? Thanks.

-Logo

Hi Logosys, welcome back!

Since you used to be here, and recently came back, I shouldn't have to remind you that we do have that fancy Search button, which will lead you to the other posts in the last month also asking for the best places to buy locks.

If you're cheap like most of us here are, ebay is the best place for the most variety and good prices. If you have cash to blow, visit a local locksmith and spend $5 to $95 per cylinder depending on the brand, keyway, and level of security. I stopped by my local Medeco dealer recently looking for locks to bring to TOOOL meetings, and he was nice enough to sell me some MX keyway cylinders for $6 a piece with keys, and some other Corbin keyway and KW1 keyway generic cylinders made by GMS for $12 a piece with keys, all keyed differently. The nice thing is that they are all brand new, no gunk or graphite or any other crud in them. Some of the locks for sale on ebay, may be well priced, but some are also very used.

Your local ReStore is another place to check.

Happy shopping,
Squelchtone

[logosyn]

I want to buy some cylinders with various keyways / brands in order to practice. In your experience, where is the best place to get them? Thanks.

-Logo

Hi Logosys, welcome back!

Since you used to be here, and recently came back, I shouldn't have to remind you that we do have that fancy Search button, which will lead you to the other posts in the last month also asking for the best places to buy locks.

If you're cheap like most of us here are, ebay is the best place for the most variety and good prices. If you have cash to blow, visit a local locksmith and spend $5 to $95 per cylinder depending on the brand, keyway, and level of security. I stopped by my local Medeco dealer recently looking for locks to bring to TOOOL meetings, and he was nice enough to sell me some MX keyway cylinders for $6 a piece with keys, and some other Corbin keyway and KW1 keyway generic cylinders made by GMS for $12 a piece with keys, all keyed differently. The nice thing is that they are all brand new, no gunk or graphite or any other crud in them. Some of the locks for sale on ebay, may be well priced, but some are also very used.

Your local ReStore is another place to check.

Happy shopping,
Squelchtone

Yes, the search button, my old friend! =)

My experience with ebay locks is that they are cheap, but you get what you pay for with them. I have a whole collection of locks with all manners of gunk inside of them and wear on them (which was half the fun a few years ago, but I'm a bit out of practice and would like to limit the number of variables). I'll definitely check with a few local locksmiths to see what my options are, I didn't know if there was a good place to buy new cylinders online.

Thanks again. Cheers!

[criminalhate]

I would check to see if there are any habitat for humanity restores in your area. I was getting slightly used Mortise Cylinders for $.50 each some with keys some with out, but for $.50 who cares.