The Meter Key Authority.
Since 2002 we have served as the trusted source of genuine barrel lock meter keys, plunger keys, and specialty utility access tools for the people who keep the lights, gas, and water on across North America.
About Barrel Lock Meter Key / Utility Barrel Lock & Plunger Key System / Edison Meter Key
We are the Barrel Lock Meter Key industry leader for tamper-indicating and tamper-deterrent security products through innovation and research. While we work with security seals and locking devices for the transportation, retail, money handling and utility industries, the pages of our web site will focus upon the utility and meter key market. For information on products that we sell to other industries, please refer to www.barrellockmeterkey.com.
Barrel Lock Meter Key Products Group (UPG) is the premier supplier of metering-related products. The operating units Barrel Lock Meter Products provides security seals and locking devices & barrel lock plunger keys tools.
We purchase all new and used, broken, worn out, working or not barrel lock tools and offer trade in credit value (depending on condition) towards the purchase of any tools or products on our site and guarantee they will work for your application or we will buy it outright.
Channel CATV barrel lock tools only work on CATV applications & not on electrical panels. We receive many of these tools for repair that were sold to customers by others that modified them trying to get the tool work on other applications. This ends up breaking them so before you grind or file tool bits or risk buying the wrong tool, note that the cost on stock rebuild kits are $350 + S/H tax + insurance. Additional costs will apply to ground, filed, or damaged parts not included in sleeve kit. Buying stock channel tools for those that are unaware will most likely end up with a useless tool for their application.
- Gas:plunger style barrel locks and keys for gas meters are designed to prevent unauthorized access in residential and commercial properties for safety and revenue protection.
- Water:plunger style barrel locks and keys for the water industry are designed to help prevent theft on residential or commercial properties and restrict water flow in case of emergency.
- Electric:barrel locks for electric meters secure the meter and receptacle to prevent unauthorized use of service.
- Telecommunications:barrel locks for telecommunication and CATV equipment and cable boxes help protect against tampering and theft.
Meter keys are our business — call us first and get the right meter key the first time around.
We exist to put the right tool in the right hand — fast, genuine, and built to take the abuse of the field.
Year founded
States served, plus PR & the Caribbean
Standard ship time, in-stock items
Real specialist on the line, no chatbots
If a key exists for it, we can find it.
Most of our inventory never makes it onto a search engine. Decades of relationships with manufacturers, locksmiths, and utility supply houses let us source the pattern you actually need — not the closest substitute.
Whether you're maintaining a single meter or a fleet of service trucks, every order ships from real stock and ships fast.
Built for the field,
not the catalogue.
Genuine only
Every tool sourced from the original manufacturer or an authorized partner. No clones, no grey-market substitutes.
Specialist by trade
Two decades focused on a single category. We know the patterns, the failures, and the field.
Hard-to-find inventory
If we don't have it, we know who does. We track down obsolete patterns and one-off requests as a matter of course.
Responsive support
A human picks up the phone at 951.545.8822. Most orders ship same-day.
Need a key we don't list?
Call, email, or send a photo. If it exists, we'll source it.