Hello

[rodneybu0]

Hi my name is Bryan and have been a locksmith in the UK for about 25 years, not allowed to tell you where I currently work but work with locks all the time.

Bryan

[Anarchy_won]

Welcome to Keypicking Bryan, you will find a good mix of hobbyist and Locksmiths here, enjoy your stay and stop by the chat sometime and say Hi.

[muddassarusa]

Welcome Bryan to over community we all share our experience here hope you will enjoy here there are experts,hobbyist and newbies come stop by .Thanks for joining.

[Oldfast]

A big welcome to you Bryan & good to meet ya. I'm Mike. VERY glad you're here.

This is a truly wonderful place. I'm so appreciative of all the friends I've made and
all the help I've received. There's absolutely no way in hell I would be enjoying this
wonderful world of locks as I do, if not for this site and all the talented people here!!

Looking forward to seeing you around.

[Deadlock]

Hiya Bryan, always good to see another Brit.

Do you work in one of those places where they (politely) investigate your close family by blood or marriage before they let you work there?

[rodneybu0]

All I can say about where I work is that it is on a need to know basis and yes they investigate your family , you have to have referees and they check out your finances

[Anarchy_won]

All I can say about where I work is that it is on a need to know basis and yes they investigate your family , you have to have referees and they check out your finances

I work at a place like that myself

[rodneybu0]

Anarchy_won so you do any GSA work? ?

[Anarchy_won]

I have rebuilt a GSA file safe but I work in the private sector.

[rodneybu0]

I work a lot with the UK equivalent

[Deadlock]

It's okay, I don't need to know any more .

When I saw the , I was reminded of a guy I worked at the same place with in 1990-something. One day he told me he used to work for a locksmith. He said they would open safes at a certain M.O.D. place, now closed. Certainly sparked my interest. ''Oh yeah?! What, with a stethoscope an' that?'' (You can tell how much I knew about it.) ''Oh no. We just used to drill 'em. We had a template to put over the lock.'' ''Oh.'' *loses interest*

That sounds bad, but at the time I thought it was like a locksmith drilling a lock. Now I know that this is actually a legit, and repairable, way of opening a safe. Probably in the paid-by-the-hour world, the only way. Is that how you'd do it?

[rodneybu0]

We do drill if we need to get in straight away , but it is normally the last option as we have auto -diallers . It is a myth that you strap the dialler on and it will always open , sometimes we have had to drill even after being on the dialler for a week, they also can wear the lock out .