Familiar Face
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Location: Gowrie Junction, Queensland, Australia
Thu Jan 02, 2014 1:12 am
Easy way to set up lock for practice.
While I was shimming a lock just now, a thought came to me of a way to set up a lock to practice on only 2 or 3 pins with out disassembling the whole lock and messing around with small pins and springs.
If you just push the shim in between the last 2 pins on a 5 pin lock, you have in effect a 3 pin practice lock.
I know the cylinder will be very tight with the shim jammed in there but will still give beginners something to work with and the binding order for the remaining pins still should be the same.
I just tried it on a very cheap/old and therefore sloppy core and it worked fine.
Of course once you have the shim in all the way you can then disassemble the entire thing and have a look how it all comes together.
Just watch those little pins. The little buggers have a mind of their own. Be sure to hold the core with the pins at the top and rotate the bible/body 90 degrees so the pins don't fall out of the core and roll away.
I also use a 12mm drill bit shank for the follower so the driver pins and springs stay where I want them.
If you just push the shim in between the last 2 pins on a 5 pin lock, you have in effect a 3 pin practice lock.
I know the cylinder will be very tight with the shim jammed in there but will still give beginners something to work with and the binding order for the remaining pins still should be the same.
I just tried it on a very cheap/old and therefore sloppy core and it worked fine.
Of course once you have the shim in all the way you can then disassemble the entire thing and have a look how it all comes together.
Just watch those little pins. The little buggers have a mind of their own. Be sure to hold the core with the pins at the top and rotate the bible/body 90 degrees so the pins don't fall out of the core and roll away.
I also use a 12mm drill bit shank for the follower so the driver pins and springs stay where I want them.
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"I shall either find a way, or make a way myself."
“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” ― George Bernard Shaw
