American Padlock Key

[the lockpickkid]

Granted I don't know everything, and have and never will see it all, but I seen something cool the other day that I didn't know existed. A guy brings in some keys for me to duplicate, one of the keys was an original American padlock key, funny thing was, it was an American key with the trademark head on it, but it was a 4 pin key with the M1 groove. I cut the duplicate on an M1 and he says it worked great. First time seeing one of these and haven't found any blanks to match the original. This same guy has some American locks that are Aluminum that was a first for me as well.

[nhoj_yelbom]

yeah the 1100 series are aluminum

[chris]

It was probably a low grade American, since Master now owns the American Lock Co., they have re-branded some of their original locks as American, and taken some of the old American's and put Master pins and such in there rather than the serrated American pins. I've seen a few 1105's that have standard Master lock pins. Sucks really.