eloxStorefront Zinc Mortise Cylinders for Adams Rite Commercial Storefront Door Lock a pair Packed in Aluminum Finish

If you need a good working temporary replacement cylinders for storefront doors this is what you need. I use them when we have retail stores move out of spaces. We use them for temporary locks for the contractors. I wouldn't recommend them for permanent locks, locksmith cost $350 to change or re key cylinders these days. Easy, fast install

Some other Elox products I have were really nice quality, but these aren't great. There's nothing wrong with them per se, but they are cheap zinc cast mortise cylinders. They operate fine, but the pins feel a little bit rough. There are no security pins, but because the pins/chambers are so rough these don't pick smoothly. If you're looking for a really cheap option for a store front or for picking practice, these are probably okay. I was a little disappointed though, because their SFIC locks seemed like pretty good quality.

Lock picking is a hobby of mine. I'm not hugely skilled at it but I can usually get into pretty much any standard lock eventually, especially those that are based on the five pin Schlage lock cylinder as this one is. To its credit, I was not able to to pick this one. I didn’t disassemble it, but it felt like there were some security pins in it. Its main weakness comes from its zinc alloy lock body. Since zinc is quite soft, it would not stand up to a determined brute force attack for long and it would be easy to drill. An attacker might even be able to melt it with a simple, cheap propane torch. The lock would suffice in a relatively secure setting, such as a mall where there is always security present but I wouldn’t recommend it for a storefront in a secluded location.