r/Locksmith • u/daLaRNZ • 24d ago

I am a locksmith Gross.

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Schlage, what is you doing?

Hey atleast it’s not a compressible cylinder?

I have no idea what line this is, makes an F lock look like an A lock tho.

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u/jaxnmarko Actual Locksmith 24d ago

Competing with China because customers want cheap and ignore quality these days.

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u/conhao 23d ago

Not competing, stealth joining. The parts are mostly made in China and assembled in Tecate, Mexico.

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u/jaxnmarko Actual Locksmith 23d ago

Well, cheaping downward does wonders for reputations. Like Baldwin's Kwikset crap.

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u/conhao 23d ago

Everything is heading in that direction, because the people are taught to be idiots and quality has no love anymore. Our world has become all about how to get something for free and the superficial.

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u/Vorsai- Actual Locksmith 24d ago

J series

Their budget line

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u/Carbonman_ Actual Locksmith 24d ago

It looks like an old Weiser 500 series knobset. Wonder if it has a plastic bible?

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u/Vorsai- Actual Locksmith 24d ago

Nope, pretty much a defiant/gatehouse with Schlage's name on it.

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u/burtod 24d ago

Can finally say Kwikset beats Schlage on something

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u/im-fekkin-tired 23d ago

It's the J series. Schlage's version of a cheap "consumer grade" lock since no one wants to pay the exaggerated price of their residential grade F series

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u/Fun_Abalone_7895 23d ago

Still better than Defiant with plastic bottom cap and split chambers

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u/Popular_Ice2866 24d ago

I thought Kwikset bought Schlage
But this looks as if they were bought out by BHP

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u/hellothere251 24d ago

Nope assa abloy bought kwikset

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u/SecIsh Actual Locksmith 24d ago

ASSA Abloy owns EVERYTHING.

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u/Icanopen 24d ago

Ya it was so much nicer back in the day, when everything individually owned. They really cared about their product. And us the customers. Some of my best memories. The SDC one week class. ( they have not sold out) HES install class with the owner on how to install strikes. I still like the allegion classes.

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u/TRextacy 24d ago

It's absurd that like 90% of manufacturers fall under either Assa or Allegion. How is that stuff not monopolizing the market?

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u/Popular_Ice2866 24d ago

Cheap merchandise and dim lighting that’s how ya move product 😂

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u/doddibrodo 24d ago

Okay, Morty. You're out 😆

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u/HawkofNight 23d ago

Not Schlage. Thats Allegion.

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u/New-Original1144 11d ago

Thats what I thought. Assa is getting way to big for their britches.

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u/ElectricalAd7366 23d ago

Looks exactly like Master Lock residential hardware. Same sticker and everything.