Commercial Body Fitters

[sako243]

Incase anyone needs and commercial body stuff I just thought I'd say that these guys and gals have been superb to deal with.

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Commercial Body Fittings

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We've got a Sanderson commercial box made for the back of a 130 that I've repurposed into a camper for the back of the 6x6. The locks for the rear doors are heavily integrated into structure so I did some digging to find replacement barrels and eventually tracked down the OEM who are MRF in Spain. Then came across CBF who listed the parts for quoting, submitted a request for quote on Sunday.

Monday morning a lady by the name of Claire Balfour (ironically I know a Claire Balfour but don't think it's the same one) emailed a very very reasonable quote back, there were some technical discussions as I found they do an internal push to release for the locks and she emailed through the PDF installation manual. They've got the parts in stock and standard shipping is to overnight them down.

So maybe they'll arrive tomorrow but so far I've been very impressed by their service.

 

[rtcosic]

The locks and latches are much the same as the Vintage/Classic items. I wonder if they are cheaper than the usual suspects.

Tee Keys - 3840 Series | CBF

Overview: 83mm & 125mm Body lengths Tapered body Zinc plated mild steel Click here for Budget Locks to suit

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Universal 'Heavy' Duty Budget Locks | CBF

Overview: 2 Size options 8.0mm x 8.0mm Square hole Tapered tongue for smooth operation Held positively in open or closed position by concealed spring Non-handed design Suits both Left & Right hand applications Zinc plated steel Click here for Tee Keys to suit

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Spring Loaded Escutcheon | CBF

Chromium Plated Steel

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These look suspiciously like Land Rovers items:

Slam Lock With Handle - 55 Series | CBF

Overview: Left & right hand options Backplate: L85mm x W50mm Handle: L90mm Plastic coated Accepts 7.8mm square shaft 4 x ø5.8mm Fixing holes Zinc plated mild steel

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I've bookmarked the site. Thanks for the reference.

 

[sako243]

I wonder if they are cheaper than the usual suspects.

I don't really have anything to compare against but what I wanted was basically this a cam lock quite often used on mail boxes etc., but it was a very odd size on the latch that we've got (press formed stainless stell all integrated into a shipping container style pole lock). They quoted £6.20 for each lock barrel plus keys and £1 for the lock specific cam bracket on the back. The push-release buttons were about £24 I think and actually when you look at the CAD diagrams quite an impressive engineering design internally to make it low-profile.

Given a similar sized cam lock (mass produced in china) is about £5 from Amazon I thought that was a pretty good price, in stock and overnight delivery in the UK when the manufacturer is Spanish (she did say they'd just stocked up on a load of MRF parts in anticipation of their summer shutdown).

All in for two sets of everything was £65 next day delivery for a random out of the blue quotation. Definitely going to be looking through their site when I need other stuff.

 

[sako243]

Parts arrived yesterday (overnight) as promised. Fitted the lock with no bother at all this evening so they held up to their service.