I know that hardware can be difficult and confusing, but come on…
This Fixed-it Friday photo was taken at an open house by JJ Normandeau of CFS Canada.
On another topic…an iDH reader needs help identifying the product pictured below. Any ideas?
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CorKey product. I’m not sure what the best source for product data is but here’s a link:
http://www.corkey.com/500.htm
Here’s another one that shows what the “keys” look like:
http://www.vaultek.in/locking/corkey-mechanical-tumbler-cabinet-lock.html#7
I installed these on a job several years ago and didn’t really care for them.
Lori,
Before my life in door hardware I did kitchen design. I have seen this 100’s of times. The installer takes the doors off to hang the cabinets and has someone drill the holes for the pulls/knobs. 50% of the time you end up ordering at least one new door. Really a pain when they are custom cabinets.
It’s a “His” and “Hers” set of pulls! Right? It’s supposed to be like that. 😉
I hope he’s tall!
That’s the side for the really good booze…
Nice way to keep children out of that cabinet?
I do not remember who made them but the lock worked with a metal key tag similar in shape to a dog tag. Small magnets inside activated by the key tag allowed the lock to operate. These were in use in the 80’s
No room to write RH or LH on the top of cabinet doors. 🙂
The one on the right is the cabinet you tell your kids the snacks are located in. They can’t reach the handle…problem solved.
Public education…
Add two more handles. Make it even.
Corkey products is still searchable on the internet. They are lock conversion parts to use a magnetically encoded card (either stainless steel or plastic) to interact with magnets placed inside the lock to release the slide. You place the magnets (+ or _ direction) in the lock slide yourself. You coded the cards yourself (+ or -) in a jig and erased them as well with a bulk tape eraser. The one in the picture also could be changed in an instant by rotating a small tool in the holes while the appropriate card was inserted and pressed. This would change which batch of cards operate the lock. You could get knob conversions, mortise cylinder like in the picture above, key switches etc. Not sure if they are really still available. Definitely old technology.
That’s a cabinet accessible via the labyrinth. David Bowie style
Think the lock in the bottom picture is an August Lock