Diabolical Pinning Master & Lock Philanthropist
Posts: 410
Joined: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:31 pm
Location: Maine
Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:05 pm
New idea, or not
A customer comes into the shop the other day, want's me to key a deadbolt to the key he has. No problem I tell him, then saw that the deadbolt was a Falcon, and he had a Schlage SC4 key. Falcon will supply a Schlage cylinder if it is specified, so I open the box, and it was a Falcon G cylinder.
No problem I say, because I had a few Schlage cyinders, and could use the Falcons lazy tailpeice. So I key the cylinder, put the Falcons tailpeice on it, all is good until I put the cylinder into the deadbolt. The face of my cylinder was to big to go into the Falcon housing, and the sholder of the key was hanging up not allowing the key to go all the way in so it wouldn't turn.
I'm onley about five minutes into this rekey and I could tell the dude was already getting impaicant. I tried to tell him that his deadbolt was a different keyway, and it might not work. Of course he had no idea what I was talking about, because if you take it to locksmith they can make it work.
I started thinking about it,and came up with an idea that just might work, and thats not like me. I took the cylinder apart, and put the plug into my drill, then put a flat bastard in my vise. You all know what's next start spinning the plug with the drill, and filing it with the file in the vice.
With in about 2minutes of taking it out, and checking it in the housing it finally fit. I keyed it back up again screwd it into the housing, and it worked.
Was this my idea, or is it sothing the pro locksmiths do all the time. I hope it was my idea, and I'm starting to catch on.
selim
No problem I say, because I had a few Schlage cyinders, and could use the Falcons lazy tailpeice. So I key the cylinder, put the Falcons tailpeice on it, all is good until I put the cylinder into the deadbolt. The face of my cylinder was to big to go into the Falcon housing, and the sholder of the key was hanging up not allowing the key to go all the way in so it wouldn't turn.
I'm onley about five minutes into this rekey and I could tell the dude was already getting impaicant. I tried to tell him that his deadbolt was a different keyway, and it might not work. Of course he had no idea what I was talking about, because if you take it to locksmith they can make it work.
I started thinking about it,and came up with an idea that just might work, and thats not like me. I took the cylinder apart, and put the plug into my drill, then put a flat bastard in my vise. You all know what's next start spinning the plug with the drill, and filing it with the file in the vice.
With in about 2minutes of taking it out, and checking it in the housing it finally fit. I keyed it back up again screwd it into the housing, and it worked.
Was this my idea, or is it sothing the pro locksmiths do all the time. I hope it was my idea, and I'm starting to catch on.
selim
