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by **code000187** » 29 Dec 2006 19:45

I was just wondering how any of you with a business set up you keys? Such as where do you put your auto, residential, high security, obsolete keys. If you have them on a board then how do you section them?

At the moment I have [AUTO] [RESIDENTIAL] then high sec under a counter. Obsolete is just mixed in but it is difficult to locate keys quick. Do you go Alphabetically, numerically or by make/model? Thanks for the help.

by **Raccoon** » 30 Dec 2006 3:39

By Category (building or automotive)
Then by Brand (alphabetical)
Then by Main/Popular key(s) first
Then by all other keys (unpopular) by code.

Also set aside a couple bins for KW1 and SC1 and M1 and maybe Y1 and others that you get LOTS of.

by **Buggs41** » 30 Dec 2006 11:42

Mine are alpha-numerically according to the Ilco key catalog.

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by **Shrub** » 30 Dec 2006 14:38

According to the key catalogue here as well, makes it easier to work with in the long run,

by **linty** » 31 Dec 2006 9:26

mine are alphabetically according to brand, and also seperated into non-automotive, english auto, american auto, asian auto, european auto, motorcycle, and transponder/engraving

i like having them seperated by category, but i'd much rather have them organized by number than by brand name, but it's not up to me.

by **2octops** » 1 Jan 2007 3:13

Mine are set up with auto and commercial seperate. Auto starts with BMW and go alphabetically to Volvo. Then each mfg gets broken down numerically in order...BMW2, BMW3, S7BW-P.

Commercial gets broken down the same way. Yale starts with Y1, Y6, Y11, Y13, Y16 ect.

Motorcycles get their own section in numerical order.

Bulk boxes for Y1, SC1, SC4, KW1, KW10 ect.

Transponders are boxed, but set up the same way as standard auto keys.

Remotes are broken down by mfg, then FCC.

by **linty** » 1 Jan 2007 8:47

oh, forgot to mention, the bottom row right by my key machine is my "common keys", about 20 keys that make up 75% of what we cut (schlage, weiser, kwikset, and then pundra, u122, viro, s54f, master, etc.

by **maxxed** » 1 Jan 2007 21:35

I have separate boards for auto and commercial/residential keys and everything is in the order it appears in the Ilco catalog
Buggs why is your key machine facing the wall?

by **I Pik U** » 1 Jan 2007 22:33

Numerical order by DL #, yes Dominion Lock, because that's how we started many years ago. Ilco numbers are added in between as we go if there is no DL#.
Automotive and Motorcycle keys, as well as other brand spefic keys are in their own sections, again in numerical order.
Near the key machines were also have the most poppular ones, as others have mentioned.
High security keys are placed near their respective machines.

by **maxxed** » 1 Jan 2007 23:21

I Pik U wrote:Numerical order by DL #, yes Dominion Lock, because that's how we started many years ago. Ilco numbers are added in between as we go if there is no DL#.
Automotive and Motorcycle keys, as well as other brand spefic keys are in their own sections, again in numerical order.
Near the key machines were also have the most poppular ones, as others have mentioned.
High security keys are placed near their respective machines.

I also started with the DL numbering system, much better than the Ilco, but I changed because of my suppliers.

by **globallockytoo** » 2 Jan 2007 0:01

I personally like the silca keyblanks numbering and would use it as the platform for alphanumeric numbering. But of course organising into cylinder type first. So Automotive and motorcycle together, residential and commercial together, safe and mortice together, padlock and other together.

by **lockdr** » 2 Jan 2007 2:16

Buggs why is your key machine facing the wall?

Is it to hide the "Foley-Belsaw" sticker on the front?

(Just kidding, I have a model 200 F-B.)

by **Buggs41** » 2 Jan 2007 7:21

I have it, and a Dremel swivel vise mounted on a board. I must have been working with the vise earlier that day, and never turned the board around.

by **ldnlksmth** » 7 Jan 2007 21:58

the first shop I worked in, my boss was reasonably short. Thus, we had our boards (2 and half walls actually) set up mostly by DL number with the more commonly used blanks lower down. Also had bins for SC1, SC4, WR5, Y1, M1, S54F, pundra. Vehicle keys were all grouped together.

one point of contention I had with that shop: Extra blanks were stored in boxes under the counters, up to 4 deep with the number written on the end of the box. I would have preferred to see a series of bins with the numbers on the front of the bin.

by **globallockytoo** » 8 Jan 2007 4:57

ldnlksmth wrote:one point of contention I had with that shop: Extra blanks were stored in boxes under the counters, up to 4 deep with the number written on the end of the box. I would have preferred to see a series of bins with the numbers on the front of the bin.

I understand where you are coming from however, as one who has managed various sized locksmith shops and having owned my own shop once, It made alot more sense and took up less space to just store the numbered boxes in a cupboard, especially just, say, one box of each of the not so frequently used ones. Makes less clutter and better organisation. Also the original manufacturers box is handy for having the manufacturers numbering and batch numbers, should the need arise to return them for any reason.

The blanks of higher demand were definitely opened into a storage bin within easy reach of the cutter to speed up service and delivery to the client.

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