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Post Tue May 11, 2010 10:14 pm

kwickset smartkey locks

So i picked a kwickset smart key lock and the the thing has not been right since. the key doesn't work and is generally on the fritz. is this common? why does it happen? is there a way to avoid it?

PS, a breakdown of the lock would be great if someone knows of one.
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Post Wed May 12, 2010 8:18 am

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I think the inards in those locks have some plastic bits in them. Not very strong.

http://www.lockwiki.com/index.php/Kwikset_Smart_Key

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Post Wed May 12, 2010 9:58 am

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sounds like a lock in use...they are full of so many delicate and cheap parts any time i have to open one on a lockout the customer gets the (it may not work again no garauntys speech.)
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Post Wed May 12, 2010 5:33 pm

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Sounds like most of the ones I've picked on for longer than a couple minutes too. It happens because the tiny metal tabs that grab the wafer get rolled over because you're causing friction by tensioning then moving the parts around. It either moves the wafer and recodes that spot, or drops it all together out the bottom of the cylinder where it jams up in the housing. The only way to avoid it, is not to pick it with your standard tools.
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Thanks for the link Barbarian! Nice read, it's a pretty novel mechanism at the very least, if not problematic in practice I guess...

Tooly, good info there too! Thanks!
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Kwikset makes cheap locks, they always have, the minute I seen the new smartkey lock, I figured it was the same quality as all there other stuff. Home Depot pushes these locks on everybody, funny thing is, I was chatting with the guy in the lock area, and he said that the counter display has been replaced several times already because of them breaking! Alot of hype for a lock with a clever design just poor materials.
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Post Wed May 12, 2010 7:32 pm

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Ok, this is good to know for future use. i kinda had a feeling that it was just a very delicate mechanism built with crappy parts. unfortunately the lock was in use, a friend of mine lost his keys at the gym so i helped him out.(i know it was his place because iv been there more times than i can count). luckily i had another kwickset cylinder laying around and pinned it up to his backup keys.

on a side note the smart key was much more difficult to pick than regular kwicksets, is this common?
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Post Wed May 12, 2010 7:44 pm

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smart keys are a pain to pick bro, im impressed that you got it.
I had no idea they stopped working after they have been picked. i will have to test this with the ones i have
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Post Wed May 12, 2010 7:53 pm

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LocksmithArmy wrote:I had no idea they stopped working after they have been picked. i will have to test this with the ones i have

From what I've heard is that you have to set it to a new key after its picked because the wafer placements are lost. Or something like that.
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that makes since. considering how they work. oh well POS lol
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everybody that I have talked to that have picked these says that 99 percent of the time the owners key will work but the lock itself can no longer be rekeyed, picking them renders that part useless because of the mentioned parts that get bent or fall apart.
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Post Thu May 13, 2010 11:29 am

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that does not make sence.

the rekeying part is like 1/3rd of the cylinder.

there is a forde tool that breaks little tabs on the rekey part so the lock can nolonger be rekeyed but i do not see this happening from picking alone... just when you force it open...
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Post Thu May 13, 2010 4:46 pm

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ChemicalRobot wrote: From what I've heard is that you have to set it to a new key after its picked because the wafer placements are lost. Or something like that.

Something like that indeed... it's what I was trying to explain without using specific terminology not everyone is gonna want to follow. Least of all me. :crazy:

Force tools aside, lets talk about picking. Barbarian was kind enough to post the lockwiki breakdown. It doesn't get much more clear than that I'm afraid, but I had these pictures, so I'm using them.

Here is the inside of the lock with all but two wafers removed and the proper key inserted. See the metal tab on the side of the keypin that holds the wafer?
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When you tension the lock and the sidebar presses in on the wafer, there are several things that can happen to allow that little metal tab to deform depending on the individual machining. Sometimes it smashes a notch in the tab, other times you have to lift the binding pin to bend it. The result is the same, failure. What I was trying to take a picture of here is the second tab. See how it looks shorter?
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The friction created from tensioning the lock held the wafer firmer than the tab could support, and it bent the tiniest bit. The result, it slid up a notch on the wafer. After that the operating key won't work it anymore, and the user can't rekey it. Doesn't look like much, but the individual tolerances in this lock are just loose enough now that this one is too damaged to hold a coded wafer in the right spot for very long in that position. It usually drops it notch by notch until...
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It just drops the wafer to get jammed in between plug and housing.

I'm not a snob about security on low end residential stuff. I mean regular generics and kwiksets are perfectly adequate for most applications, and masterkeyable. Making this lock much less resistant to abuse for the sake of bump resistance and end user keying was a step in the wrong direction. If you pick a smartkey, do so with a light touch and don't be suprised when you start to experience complications.
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Post Thu May 13, 2010 7:01 pm

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wow. tooly this is exactly what i was looking for. very nice job. So nice, I vote that it be stickied in the locks section for future inquiry.
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Post Thu May 13, 2010 9:04 pm

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wow thanks for that lesson. now i wanna do it lol
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