Ok, several of you have responded to my posts and I want to thank you for
your input and help. I really appreciate it!
A new development however has surfaced. Someone decided to go to a hotel
type lock system (ie Tessa/Onity) and they decided to look to Kaba/Ilco.
Don't get me wrong, the Kaba 710-11 Solitaire is a good lock, but in this
particular situation I don't think it would be a good choice and very much
overkill. The part of this that is making me mad, is when I was talking
to the Property manager yesterday, I asked him what is going to happen when
they lock dies and they don't have an override key. He told that this
wouldn't be a problem, cause Kaba would train his tech's/engineers to be
able to remove the lock from the outside of the door in order to gain entry.
This really, doesn't make me have warm and fuzzy feelings. Isn't this the
job of a locksmith? Why is Kaba now in the business of training building
engineers in the practice of bypassing security devices.
The reason for all of this is the fact that they placed the key machine in
the main shop area so that ANYONE could make duplicate keys, and someone
made a copy of the GM. So now we have an instance where the engineers will
be trained to bypass locks w/o damage except for the security seal on the
inside of the outer body. Therefore, when one of the engineers leaves the
job, will posess the knowledge to go back and committ harry karry. What a
great plan!
So am I wrong in my view of this? Would love your thoughts.
Jack
- posted 15 years ago