by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Apr 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Metrolocks is turning 30! Yes, it’s official: we’ve made it to 30 years old! Who’d’ve thought we’d ever get this far, what with the tumultuous 30 years we’ve had: the dotcom bubble, the 2008 credit crunch, the decline of printed...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Apr 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
“I’ve lost my key. Can you make a key just from the barrel?” We get this question quite a lot, and most people walk away disappointed. Still, the question is too broad for a simple yes/no answer. See, it depends on two things: (1) the barrel in...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Locksmith Industry in Turmoil Over Door Handle Shortage Due to long-running industrial action in a Turkish door handle factory, there is now a dearth of new door handles in the UK. Shortages are exacerbated by panic-buying locksmiths and DIY-fanatics. A dispute...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Mar 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
I went to the Stasi Museum in Leipzig back in 2017. It was fascinating beyond anything I could have imagined to learn what life must have been like in a police state run by the Stasi. The tour guide was saying how the Stasi enforcement officers would break into your...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Feb 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s hard to imagine an unbreakable lock. Practically everything can be got into, given plenty of time, and assuming nobody cares about the noise of a drill for hours on end. But there’s a locking solution that is, in a sense, dangerously unbreakable. Pad-eyes aren’t...
by help@metrolocks.co.uk | Jan 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
It wasn’t always this way, but nowadays cutting keys is quite a high-tech affair. In the olden days, keys would have been cut by hand, with a file. (Cutting mortice keys with a file is still part of the Master Locksmith Association exam.) These days, a great...
