impressioning a key for a garage wafer lock

[prag]

hi there. recently had the opportunity to work on a wafered garage door lock and mechanism by the name of "Wispeco" which is commonly used in South Africa. This door is an aluminium roll up door.

The way this lock works is when the key is turned the two "arms"on the side pulls two wires connected to two bolts.

Disassmbling the lock mechanism. Two screws hold the wafer lock and the pick is used to release the final retainer waffer.

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The blank used is a Silca LF28R.


The key is then impressed wafer by wafer.

All the wafers are as flushed to the plug as possible.

Almost finnished with the filing.

Once the plug turns freely in the hull housing the lock is ready to be put together.

lock opening

and

lock closing.

This job took me just under an hour to do, this includes taking foto's and serving a few customers. Cut a spare key for the client and he was a happy chappy.

This is my first pictured posting, so please "bear" with me.
Thanx.











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[freakparade3]

Very nice work, very nice post!! I love to impression locks, I practice that more than picking.

[Fredmad]

Do i do a mistake with the word "impressioning" ? For me the manipulation you did is making a key on a disassembled lock. Very nice work but i thought that impressionning was the technical which allowed to do a key on a locked door with a keyblank and a file. Isn't it?
Regards

[Kaotik]

Impressioning is most commonly used with locks that are still intact and left in the original location while a key is being made.

However, it can also be done with the lock removed, by means of pressing down on the pins/wafers and leaving a slight mar or impression in a key blank then removing and filing the blank to the correct level (the sheer line).

Not knowing if this was done by the OP, it can still be done in that way. Otherwise the misinterpretation is just a technicality, as most of us know what the OP means.

[raimundo]

Kaotiks right about it usually being done without taking the lock apart, but when you do take the lock apart, especially a wafer lock, and then fit a key, I would not call that real impressioning, as you can look at the wafer sticking out of the plug and you can file it by sight, not by bumping and binding the pins. To me the word for that would be 'fitting a key'

[Kaotik]

Kaotiks right about it usually being done without taking the lock apart, but when you do take the lock apart, especially a wafer lock, and then fit a key, I would not call that real impressioning, as you can look at the wafer sticking out of the plug and you can file it by sight, not by bumping and binding the pins. To me the word for that would be 'fitting a key'

That's also true Raimundo. Though I mentioned it can be done in that fashion it's just a long way around doing it and to some of us a waste of time, when actual impressioning would be more efficient providing the skill level of the person doing it...can.

[freakparade3]

No matter what you prefer to call it the fact remains it's a great post

[Kaotik]

Indeed it is! Good job either way.