EF key, looking to duplicate

pal379

Hello I have this key that I am trying to duplicate.
The marking says EF. My local locksmiths do not have this key.
Ive looked online and found Schlage makes an EF key but it looks different. It looks mirrored.

Thanks for any input.

oldbiscuit

That looks like a Best brand key. That being said, Best now owned by Stanley has a lot of restricted key blanks . I’m not sure of yours, but it’s a very good possibility that yours could be one. If so, you would have to go back to the original purchaser or locksmith who installed or sold the lock to get a duplicate key or blank.

Dean Nickel

Best keys can be had from many locksmiths. You might have to call around to find one. I know we stock the standard, T and W series and can get others.

pal379

Thanks for the replies. The few locksmiths I went to just said “no I don’t have that.” They didn’t say “I can get it though.”

I guess I will keep calling other locksmiths and see if they can get me that key.

thanks again

Pschiffe

Dean Nickel wrote
Best keys can be had from many locksmiths. You might have to call around to find one. I know we stock the standard, T and W series and can get others.

I believe EF is a multi-milled composite blank that fits both Best E and F keyways. These may have been specially made for a institution that had both E and F keyway cores and wanted a single key which would fit them both. Although Best Access Systems (now Stanley Security Solutions) traditionally sold direct to the end-user, they now also distribute product through several of the locksmith wholesalers. It might be possible to special order these multi-milled blanks, but I’m sure there are minimum order requirements.

Pete Schifferli

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Pschiffe

Pschiffe wrote
I believe EF is a multi-milled composite blank that fits both Best E and F keyways. These may have been specially made for a institution that had both E and F keyway cores and wanted a single key which would fit them both. Although Best Access Systems (now Stanley Security Solutions) traditionally sold direct to the end-user, they now also distribute product through several of the locksmith wholesalers. It might be possible to special order these multi-milled blanks, but I’m sure there are minimum order requirements.

Pete Schifferli

I checked with interchangeable core guru and author Bill Lynk who affirms that EF is indeed a multi-milled sectional master. There are a large number of other possibilities, and they can be made to order to fit as many as five different keyways. The institution that owns the cores and keys surely has the EF blanks on hand. One could always duplicate the EF on both E and F keyway blanks and those two keys would then fit all cores which the EF does. See link for pdf of some of the many Best keyways:
http://www.jmcsecurity.net/pdf/BestKwy.pdf

Pete Schifferli

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pal379

Thank for the responses and that link. I guess I will contact my landlord for a spare. I could always try an E or F key.

thanks again

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Timothy

Took a good look as the key as first time seen an EF stamp on the key. The FS41 is the code number cut and pinning for cylinder from Stanley as given to Locksmith. I don’t think you going to have problem to get a duplicate key. Just as long as it doesn’t have any stamp on the key that read BEST U.S. GOV’T DO NOT DUPLICATE or DO NOT DUPLICATE. There may be other company has some stamp on it….Timothy….

Pschiffe

Timothy wrote
Took a good look as the key as first time seen an EF stamp on the key. The FS41 is the code number cut and pinning for cylinder from Stanley as given to Locksmith. I don’t think you going to have problem to get a duplicate key. Just as long as it doesn’t have any stamp on the key that read BEST U.S. GOV’T DO NOT DUPLICATE or DO NOT DUPLICATE. There may be other company has some stamp on it….Timothy….

Au contraire…that is not a code but rather an arbitrary number used to identify the key for the end-user. If is not possible to generate a cut key from that “code”. The end-user might have the proprietary information to cross that number to the actual bitting of the key.

Pete Schifferli

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Timothy

As Pete said is right but as what I wrote is in my world I call it code number stamp on the key. This is the only way I can look up that in our code book. Has been doing this for about twenty-five year. Thank Pete….Timothy….

pal379

Thanks for the replies. my local locksmiths didn’t want to help. I was able to find these keys from the site sponsors! Will report back once I receive it!

on a side note, my landlord said its ok to get another copy. My fellow tenants said he’s a real @$$ about it when you do ask them for another key. he grills you like a cop about what happened to the original one. So to save headache from him, I wanted to get it copied on my own not to deal with it.

thanks again!

cahoca

pal379 wrote
Hello I have this key that I am trying to duplicate.
The marking says EF. My local locksmiths do not have this key.
Ive looked online and found Schlage makes an EF key but it looks different. It looks mirrored.

Thanks for any input.

Try mysecuritypro.com and look at a A1145EF. Here are also some equivelent mfgr numbers too. Hope that helps
Chuck www.lostakey.net

EF Jet SH6 Silca S17 Alba SCH7 CEA SC 24 Curtis SC24 Hillman SC24 Kustom 924EF Old Schlage SH6EF Errebi SHE11 Lotus SHE12 RR SLG 10 JMA 101EF Silca Image 101EF Ilco LA 145EF Taylor A145EF Dominion A145EF Osco A159EF Keil SLG 10S JMA A1145EF Ilco A1145EF Orion 35 101 EF Schlage 101EF NS Silca Image 101EF NS Ilco LA 101EF NS Jet Silver

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Pschiffe

cahoca wrote
Try mysecuritypro.com and look at a A1145EF. Here are also some equivelent mfgr numbers too. Hope that helps
Chuck www.lostakey.net

EF Jet SH6 Silca S17 Alba SCH7 CEA SC 24 Curtis SC24 Hillman SC24 Kustom 924EF Old Schlage SH6EF Errebi SHE11 Lotus SHE12 RR SLG 10 JMA 101EF Silca Image 101EF Ilco LA 145EF Taylor A145EF Dominion A145EF Osco A159EF Keil SLG 10S JMA A1145EF Ilco A1145EF Orion 35 101 EF Schlage 101EF NS Silca Image 101EF NS Ilco LA 101EF NS Jet Silver

As discussed earlier, that is not the Schlage EF conventional obverse keyway for which you cite various substitutions, but rather a Best EF multi-milled small format interchangeable core key.

Pete Schifferli

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