Good find at the metal recycler? (Need input here!)

[Strongman]

Today at the metal local metal recycler me and a pal found three large paper boxes thrown on the top of some water pipes and stuff. We checked it out and it turned out to be approx 150 ASSA (SCD?) cylinders! -There were also a LOT of keys, like 30 keys (not nearly as many as there were cylinders.

We spoke to a guy there and he wanted 20 SEK / Kg = 2.6$ / kilogram, but told us that we could have any cylinders/keys that fit together we found there. He also said there was some local appartment building owner who had come in and sold it as scrap metal. We spent 40 minutes reading codes on the cylinders and keys.

We pondered about buying the whole lot, but we ended up grabbing 20 or so cylinders each and all keys there was -I managed to get:

8 of the same cylinder + 4 keys to them
1 cylinder + 1 Key
1 cylinder + 1 key

+ ~10 "practise cylinders"

Anyway, I just recently (yesterday) found this page and an old interest i never came to fully explore are now back on track! -So it was perfect to find some starting materials

I dismantled a lock (that i didnt have a key to) this evening, and lo and behold i could make it fit one of the keys that we never could pair up to a cylinder! Would it be a good move to fetch the rest by any chance? -I reckon that by having parts from all those cylinders i could make cylinders to all the keys?

And yes I know, some floating around keys from that old apartment building would come thru my door in notime -But they dont know that their keys fit and it would be a cheap "lock system" to my fathers garage he is gonna build.

[Romstar]

Almost sounds to me like you found a bit of a gold mine.

If it's cheap enough, go pick up the rest. You'll definately learn re-keying in no time.

Romstar

[Chucklz]

I would say to buy up the whole lot. Even if you need to pay a locksmiith to rekey a few/most of them, it will still be relatively cheap. Best of luck, and great find.