Recently moved to a gym that uses padlocks for locking your stuff, they sell them too for an inflated price of 3.5$, jokingly I tried my key on a friend’s lock, and one more random one, of course it didn’t work and it made me curious.
My question is how do factories make all keys/locks different even at these cheap mass produced kinds that are probably sold for 0.5-2$, how is it worth for a factory to “use different patterns” at that price, or how do they do it?
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They’re not all different. I once walked up to my car, unlocked it and sat down before realizing it wasn’t MY car, just an identical make/model that somehow worked with my key.
This was before keyless entry. I have to imagine that those can be much more unique than a physical key.
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