|
|
08-27-2017, 12:22 PM
|
#1
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Trailer: A lovely 2017 Escape 21C
Posts: 412
|
Storage door locks
Hi all, I know this has been covered in other threads and that the locks are only keeping the honest people honest. But in an effort to try and slow down the thieves out there I have been looking for alternatives to the exterior storage door locks which have a limited set of keys. I found these and wondered what you guys think of them.
https://www.amazon.com/Combination-L...rage+door+lock
Thanks
__________________
Peace and safe journeys,
Steven M
|
|
|
08-27-2017, 12:49 PM
|
#2
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Des Plaines, Illinois
Trailer: 2014 Escape 19 (TV: 2007 Chevy Tahoe)
Posts: 208
|
Storage Door Locks
I would be concerned about road grime getting into the tumblers. In places where salt, sand, and gravels are used to mitigate winter road surfaces might be especially abusive. Just something to consider....
Gary
|
|
|
08-27-2017, 02:27 PM
|
#3
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Trailer: 5.0TA Nov '14
Posts: 29
|
You might look into Tubular Cam locks...I wanted a more secure option other than the 751 key that most RV's/Trailers have and I stopped at this place in Palmdale, CA. and the owner changed out all the locks except the propane compartment on my 5.0TA. Here's a link:
CH751 RV REPLACEMENT LOCKS, CAM LOCKS, CAMLOCKS
__________________
Jack
|
|
|
08-27-2017, 03:06 PM
|
#4
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Ventura County, California
Trailer: 2013 19 Escape
Posts: 7,204
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by jhardie
You might look into Tubular Cam locks...I wanted a more secure option other than the 751 key that most RV's/Trailers have and I stopped at this place in Palmdale, CA. and the owner changed out all the locks except the propane compartment on my 5.0TA. Here's a link:
CH751 RV REPLACEMENT LOCKS, CAM LOCKS, CAMLOCKS
|
Same company we ordered from . Especially like the dust cover for the locks . Pat
|
|
|
08-27-2017, 09:00 PM
|
#5
|
Member
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Trailer: 2017 19 Escape
Posts: 200
|
I've used and recommend the 3 digit version of these. I put two on my 19 storage door.
|
|
|
09-08-2017, 03:00 PM
|
#6
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Trailer: 2015 Escape 19 "Seventy Degrees"
Posts: 3,495
|
Installed the tubular cam locks today on the baggage hatch. Thanks, Pat! I took a bit different approach and ordered two keyed alike so I could put a lock on both sides that simply opens with the same key. Reused the finger lift from the old lock. These also include a rubber gasket which didn't exist on the OEM locks.
RTCL
Easy mod and now other people's keys won't open our baggage hatch.
|
|
|
09-09-2017, 12:02 AM
|
#7
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Ventura County, California
Trailer: 2013 19 Escape
Posts: 7,204
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg A
Installed the tubular cam locks today on the baggage hatch. Thanks, Pat! I took a bit different approach and ordered two keyed alike so I could put a lock on both sides that simply opens with the same key. Reused the finger lift from the old lock. These also include a rubber gasket which didn't exist on the OEM locks.
RTCL
Easy mod and now other people's keys won't open our baggage hatch.
|
You are Welcome sure ! Pat
|
|
|
09-09-2017, 09:03 AM
|
#8
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: ..., New Mexico
Trailer: 2013 Esc19/'14 Silvrado
Posts: 4,193
|
re: Easy mod and now other people's keys won't open our baggage hatch.
What a great way for keeping my funnels and water hoses safe from thieves. I know they're out there.
__________________
Myron
"A billion here, a billion there...add it all up and before you know it you're talking real money." Everett Dirkson
|
|
|
09-09-2017, 09:10 AM
|
#9
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: St. Thomas not BVI., Ontario
Trailer: 2014 Escape 5.0TA / 2016 Ram Eco Diesel 4X4
Posts: 8,035
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by MyronL
re: Easy mod and now other people's keys won't open our baggage hatch.
What a great way for keeping my funnels and water hoses safe from thieves. I know they're out there.
|
Hi: MyronL... Reminds me of a line of lyric... "Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep". Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie
__________________
Quote Bugs Bunny..."Don't take life too seriously, none of us get out of it ALIVE"!!!
'16 Ram Eco D. 4X4 Laramie Longhorn CC & '14 Escape 5.0TA
St.Thomas (Not the Virgin Islands) Ontario
|
|
|
09-09-2017, 09:15 AM
|
#10
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: North of Danbury, Wisconsin
Trailer: 2018 Escape 21C
Posts: 3,033
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by pkgman51
I would be concerned about road grime getting into the tumblers. In places where salt, sand, and gravels are used to mitigate winter road surfaces might be especially abusive. Just something to consider....
Gary
|
Had that experience going South one winter . By the time we got from Wisconsin to Florida enough dirt and road salt had entered the locks and they were almost impossible to open.
I removed them and installed a simple turn latch.
If thieves want my solar lights or my plastic funnel there welcome to take them .
|
|
|
09-09-2017, 09:20 AM
|
#11
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
|
What is that ole saying....the more complicated the plumbing, the easier to plug up.....
__________________
Jim
Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
|
|
|
09-09-2017, 09:50 AM
|
#12
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Ventura County, California
Trailer: 2013 19 Escape
Posts: 7,204
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg A
Installed the tubular cam locks today on the baggage hatch. Thanks, Pat! I took a bit different approach and ordered two keyed alike so I could put a lock on both sides that simply opens with the same key. Reused the finger lift from the old lock. These also include a rubber gasket which didn't exist on the OEM locks.
RTCL
Easy mod and now other people's keys won't open our baggage hatch.
|
Hi Greg I keep tools like my torque wench , hammer etc. no water hoses they are in the front box . If you get the Little cover that goes over the lock which is sealed ,water and dirt doesn't get in lock . Each to their own I guess . Pat
|
|
|
09-09-2017, 05:40 PM
|
#13
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Trailer: 2015 Escape 19 "Seventy Degrees"
Posts: 3,495
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Patandlinda
Hi Greg I keep tools like my torque wench , hammer etc. no water hoses they are in the front box . If you get the Little cover that goes over the lock which is sealed ,water and dirt doesn't get in lock . Each to their own I guess . Pat
|
Lol, you referring to all the positive folks, Pat? Not a worry, we don't have all the road salt, moisture and grime in our area of the country.
|
|
|
09-09-2017, 10:52 PM
|
#14
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Ventura County, California
Trailer: 2013 19 Escape
Posts: 7,204
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg A
Lol, you referring to all the positive folks, Pat? Not a worry, we don't have all the road salt, moisture and grime in our area of the country.
|
Greg Pat
|
|
|
09-29-2017, 01:51 PM
|
#15
|
Member
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia
Trailer: 2017 Escape 19
Posts: 64
|
I was at a local locksmith to get padlocks for the wheel chocks, front cargo box latches, and propane tank hold-down, all keyed the same, and asked about those cargo hatch locks. They stocked the original style locks, which can be custom keyed. About $13 CAD each. My plan is to get two done to a custom ket and put them both on the same hatch.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
|
|
|
09-30-2019, 11:50 AM
|
#16
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Greenwood, Indiana
Trailer: 2020 Escape 5.0TA
Posts: 358
|
Ch751 replacement locks
I don’t understand how these locks can have different key “codes”. The key and locks just have two little notches unlike keys that have teeth. Are you sure someone else’s key from the same company can’t open your locks?
|
|
|
09-30-2019, 12:43 PM
|
#17
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Oswego, New York
Trailer: 2017 Escape 21C, 2018 Ford F150
Posts: 5,363
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Carmel Clown
I don’t understand how these locks can have different key “codes”. The key and locks just have two little notches unlike keys that have teeth. Are you sure someone else’s key from the same company can’t open your locks?
|
All CH751 keys & locks are interchangeable. I've opened (with the owner's permission) the storage doors on a 40' Class A. If you want to have locks your neighbor can't open, you will need to change them.
|
|
|
09-30-2019, 01:48 PM
|
#18
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Greenwood, Indiana
Trailer: 2020 Escape 5.0TA
Posts: 358
|
Cam locks
Jon Vermilye - I understand the need to replace the locks. I just don't see how replacing them with the Cam locks with the two little notches solves the issue. It looks like anyone with that type of key could open your locks. Keys are "coded" with individual teeth arrangements, but how are the 2 notch keys "coded" differently so one key doesn't unlock everyone's doors.
|
|
|
09-30-2019, 02:38 PM
|
#19
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Port Townsend, Washington
Trailer: 2010 17B “MATT”, then 2017 19 “Lilly”
Posts: 1,584
|
The tubular keys have a lot more than one notch going on.
See the notches on the side of the key? Each notch can be ground to a different depth, similar to how each position on a flat key can be ground to a different depth, producing a toothlike appearance.
Flat key locks can generally be drilled out fairly easily, whereas tubular locks are more resistant to this type of attack, as well as to standard lock picks. Some tubular locks, however, are highly vulnerable to attack from the lowly BIC pen. Search YouTube for how to videos.
__________________
💩-p+☕️+n
|
|
|
09-30-2019, 09:25 PM
|
#20
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Greenwood, Indiana
Trailer: 2020 Escape 5.0TA
Posts: 358
|
Thanks. Now I know.
|
|
|
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
» Recent Discussions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|