Removing Schlage LFIC Cores
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 10:57 am
I've read multiple threads about this (This one is from KP, but I've read others on the other sites as well) http://keypicking.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8352
I was working on a lock at work about a month ago. Someone had switched out the Best SFIC's on the outside doors of the other side of the warehouse with Schlage Everest LFIC's. I picked one of them and tried to get it to control, but ended up just pulling the whole mortise and switching it with another one I had. I spent a few hours on it at home and never got anywhere. I figured out that my issue was that the spring return on the control pin actuator is held about 5-10 degrees CCW. I picked the lock clockwise, then went back as far CCW as possible, and the control pin wouldn't lift. Since I didn't want to destroy one of my few control keys (i have some on order to make a tool) I ended up taking off the tail piece and going after the control pin from the rear while I picked the lock. It worked pretty well and I had another one lying around I had never picked and I got it pretty fast using this technique.
Are the control pin actuators on other brands of LFIC or FSIC not spring loaded? Because that would make the pick it, rotate back and lift control pin technique a lot easier.
I was working on a lock at work about a month ago. Someone had switched out the Best SFIC's on the outside doors of the other side of the warehouse with Schlage Everest LFIC's. I picked one of them and tried to get it to control, but ended up just pulling the whole mortise and switching it with another one I had. I spent a few hours on it at home and never got anywhere. I figured out that my issue was that the spring return on the control pin actuator is held about 5-10 degrees CCW. I picked the lock clockwise, then went back as far CCW as possible, and the control pin wouldn't lift. Since I didn't want to destroy one of my few control keys (i have some on order to make a tool) I ended up taking off the tail piece and going after the control pin from the rear while I picked the lock. It worked pretty well and I had another one lying around I had never picked and I got it pretty fast using this technique.
Are the control pin actuators on other brands of LFIC or FSIC not spring loaded? Because that would make the pick it, rotate back and lift control pin technique a lot easier.