Re: [CBQ] Switch Key Question

[Michael Matalis <mmatalis@sprynet.com>]

Probably for the same reason that many of my house keys are brass,  
they are easy to cut.  And if they are made badly, like the idiot who  
set up my original front door key with a deep notch at its base, easy  
to break too.


Thank you kindly,

Michael Matalis
Downers Grove IL

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On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:02 PM, qutlx1@aol.com wrote:

> I handled the brass switch keys for years and never gave it a  
> thought; why
> were the keys brass ? I understand why the locks were hardened steel  
> but
> brass  for the keys ?
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> Like pennies were the keys made of steel during WWII ?
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> The wear after decades of use on some is really significant.
>
> Leo Phillipp
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