One Keyway to Rule them All

[YouLuckyFox]

Thank you all for your feedback. Bill, your comment seems to fit my situation best. The goal is a 2 level master system, 4 users maximum. If someone loses a key I have 10 locks to rekey. If we made a Pugh matrix with SFIC being the baseline, the categories would be weighted form highest to lowest: 1. Number of keys reduced, 2. Ability to add/change master wafers one time per year, 3. ability to cut replacement keys, 4. price, 5. time taken to rekey 6. security.

See rough draft below. This is going to be an enclosed training area for training new welders. Security is not a concern beyond frustrating convenience as the training area is enclosed inside of a corporation that is locked tighter than two coats of paint:


The Red Doors are COMMON, the Blue cabinets and Office door are Elevated Access.

[Evan]

When I first learned about SFIC & interchangeable cores, I thought, 'what a great idea--this will allow a business to instantly rekey their locks instead of waiting for a locksmith to run over there & do it', but no--that never happens because nobody ever sells the company in question a second set of IC Cores. There are some good reasons for using IC Core but unfortunately most of those are displaced by any company/homeowner wishing to save money on their installation & in my world that would be everyone.

Few people these days can afford to actually keep a thief out of their home or business--not when there is a handy window out back along with rocks conveniently piled around it for said thief to toss through it. In the places I work I like to consider the sad fact that under those circumstances there is little reason to bother spending twice as much on IC Core/high security hardware, although I do keep a small amount in stock but it rarely gets used because it does cost more $$$


Far as emptying drawers goes it has only very rarely happened to me & most often on file cabinets & I can't recall even one time when it became such a chore to empty that I felt I had to charge extra for my 'wasted time' but even if I had that cost would still show IC Cores to be mostly over rated and def overpriced when compared to conventional hardware

I don't know about you, but there is a training program for welders at the facility where I work and the tool cabinets are filled with heavy items and covered in a fine black dust which gets all over anything that touches it even lightly. This dust is literally all over every surface of everything in the shop area of that building. Every time I have to fix something in that building I literally need to wash myself down because I look like I just worked in a coal mine.

But your mileage may vary.

~~ Evan

[YouLuckyFox]

Not here, although I know what you mean. Grinding is discouraged for rework here as it is is an inferior process compared with CAG and PAC. CAG and PAC tend to vaporize the majority of the material removed, grinding really throws it around and is much slower for material removal resulting in pixy dust all over. In addition, workers have time slots for 5S of their work zones to prevent build up. This environment is clean enough that computers have been placed in the work station near the welding machine (although a filter is placed over the intake fan for obvious reasons) as a work aid.

[YouLuckyFox]

PAG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc94xa05H54
CAG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHw7oHRzAB0
Grinding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QQ9D2IAEH8