Where to get decent cam locks

[OurTown]

We want to replace the cam locks on four of our vac meter box doors. They are the standard low security level and pretty wore out. Where is a good place to get them or a brand that is decent but not in the overkill Medeco price category? Need four total all keyed alike. I see a lot of cheap tubular key locks out there. Are these any good or just garbage?

https://www.amazon.com/Prime-Produc...SRH2VWA5AQH&psc=1&refRID=P9AF93PZVSRH2VWA5AQH

 

[OurTown]

Here is another type I ran across and remind me of the type that is used in Etowah Valley meter boxes.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/5-8-High-S...317398?hash=item5d8c085f16:g:95wAAOSw2bdc-Rrx

 

[MEP001]

Those Ace locks in your first link are about as good as any until you move into Medeco quality. FWIW I don't like to spend a lot on cam locks as they're all easily broken no matter what they cost. I got some Cobra cam locks on clearance from RA-Lock, only advantage they seem to have is a ball bearing to prevent drilling. Some of the locks I replaced with the Cobra were Ace, the only thing wrong with them (other than I had five different keys for 23 locks) was that they were rusted/corroded to the point I had to drill one. I soaked the new ones in WD-40 before I installed them and I intend to keep them well-lubricated.

The ones in your second link will be more pick-resistant, but honestly I don't worry about that. Crooks that break into car washes don't pick locks.

 

[OurTown]

The ones in your second link will be more pick-resistant, but honestly I don't worry about that. Crooks that break into car washes don't pick locks.

That's why I was thinking it would be a waste of money to buy Medeco locks for these vacs. The doors are not a high security thickness or design anyway. I did find a good deal on the better locks and are only $1/lock more than the Amazon ones.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-OF-4-5...ity-Finland-Cam-Lock-Keyed-alike/172608710105

 

[MEP001]

I don't see in that ad how many keys come with the locks. I also noticed it says Abloy style, so they might be garbage. Abloy are stacked disk, a copy might be wafers which are very easily picked or pried open.

I don't feel the Ace locks I had were rusted or corroded any worse than any of the others, which were a mix of Gem and some cheap Chinese-made ones.

 

[Randy]

We want to replace the cam locks on four of our vac meter box doors. They are the standard low security level and pretty wore out. Where is a good place to get them or a brand that is decent but not in the overkill Medeco price category? Need four total all keyed alike. I see a lot of cheap tubular key locks out there. Are these any good or just garbage?

https://www.amazon.com/Prime-Produc...SRH2VWA5AQH&psc=1&refRID=P9AF93PZVSRH2VWA5AQH

We open our coin box face plate doors so very seldom that they are bitch to open, we have to spray them with WD-40 to get them to open, the only time we open them is if there is something wrong with the coin acceptor. We use the inexpensive ACE brand lock. I wouldn’t use the ACE locks if I had money in the coin box, they aren’t very secure.