by locksmistress » 4 Apr 2005 15:45
Lori does in fact make a very popular deadbolt - or rather, they did until they were purchased by ILCO, now ILCO makes a very popular deadbolt...
Anyway. The Lori deadbolt is cool because it takes a mortise cylinder and that means that you can put dang near any brand of lock cylinder into it. Very handy for maintining verstile stock with minimum investment.
Good quality bolt, full one inch throw with almost an inch still in the door. But it could be a Yale cylinder, or a Schlage, or a Medeco or a Mult-T-Lock...
But not usually posessing of a Lori cylinder...
The point is that, agreeing with davidjr, Lori was an aftermarket manufacturer. Their products copied or retrofitted other designs and, as such, a Lori cylinder would be a Schlage keyway, a Corbin keyway, or a Yale, etc... And commonly referred to thusly.
So, is your imitation Schlage (Lori brand) cylinder every bit the challenge that a factory original commercial Schlage deadbolt cylinder would be?
Nope. Probably not.
Is is still the sort of thing that most locksmiths would refer to as a Schlage cylinder - just because it has a Schlage keyway.
Yes.
Also, display locks, sometimes not keyed so great, might want to take a peak at the key for that - or the guts. Nothing more embarassing than a display that you've lost the key for so sometimes they are missing a few parts to make them sort of easy to get into.
