Re: KEYING A LOCKED PADLOCK FROM SCRATCH.
ToolyMcgee wrote:awol70 wrote:cool.. does yours have the stainless keypins?
(i am guessing not, with a radical bitting like yours.)
the decoder comes with the brinks housekey padlock,along with a small pinning kit.
i find this lock much more challenging W/O security pins...
(the stainless ones are a real ßIT¢# to pick.)
Actually it did have 5 stainless steel key pins, but I have repinned it more than a hundred times. Why do you find the stainless pins harder to pick? I havn't ever really noticed a difference other than they are a little slippery for a round tipped pick.
So, a brinks padlock? I don't know where to find one like that retail, but I'll keep an eye out. Ebay is bound to turn up something. Got my eye on a nice yale shrouded with the rekeyable Y1 cylinder. Makes sense they would give you the depth card with a padlock you could master key to your front door lock.
If I repinn a lock and I think I might not be able to pick it easily, lots of security drivers or just in case I jam a spring whipping on it with a rake out of frustration for example. I usually do it to a factory key I already have to save the trouble of cutting a new key. Also, good practice for key bitings straight from the factory. I probably have a hundred keys, non of them have 0 cuts, and I have never seen a factory 0 cut. The only 0 pins I have are from master keyed pin stacks I get from second hand locks on occasion. I know you didn't ask, but seeing the card made me think about it.
-Tooly
i am not really sure what makes the stainless pins harder to pick, but on a difficulty scale from one to ten, with regular brass schlage pins being a five, i would say the stainless ones are a 7 or 8.(with no securities)
if the lock carries security pins, it doesnt matter...
also i find all the top-end hi-sec locks,such as lockwood,carry stainless pins.
i know they are a measure against drilling attacks,and perhaps the tolerances can be tweaked
tighter?
i know when i take a stainless pinstack and hold the pins stacked in my fingers, the shearline is nearly invisible,and so it feels when picking.
not so with the softer,brass pins....
that is definitely part of it....the hardness/density of the metals.