Type of locks and keys

[dlink]

Hi, Recently in our paper a job has come up working at a small locksmith job next to the city river, the pay is about $18 per hour. The CV have to be hand in with in 2 weeks, and i'm guessing then interviews. I would like to have something that i can talk about.
I have order a basic lock pick set which I will practice on, but I think if i can talk more about different types of locks and keys will have more sway than saying i can pick locks.

What i'm ask is could people please post Pics of different type of locks with there name next to it .

Thanks in advanced

[MacGyver101]

There's an entire Locks Forum here dedicated to this. I imagine the Member-submitted Lock Photo Links would be a good starting point.

[dougfarre]

Unbelievable.

[Eyes_Only]

Thank you Doug. I was so dumbfounded when I read this in the morning that I didn't know what to say.

[Gelmar]

Unbelievable.

Spoken like a true hero.

[linuxbz]

I was thinking of an analogy, like learning a few types of aircraft so you could get a job as an airline pilot. But then I thought, oh wait, that's been done (Catch Me if You Can).

It's all overkill. I'll just go with dougfarre's unbelievable.

[dlink]

Thanks for the link to the other posts, mate.

I just got my pick set and tryed on a padlock. Trying not to show off but out of ten times i did it under 1 minute, being my first time I thought it was good. The bad news is it must of had three or four pins, i just needed to get the four or thrid pin done, then the rest was easy.

Any way I got the job, thanks for your negitive comments, I think you will use the thoery of "two heads are better than one" to its full use

[Havoc]

Getting the job is only half the battle. Assuming you actually did get it.

[linty]

some "locksmiths" get by just doing pick-opens, but not the kind of locksmith that gets paid $18/h. There are always people willing to pick locks for cheap but once you get into more specialized locksmithing you will be valuable to somebody.

[raimundo]

picking is not the key skill in a locksmith job, but lock recognition is,
Key blank recognition is the first and most important skill. and knowing the difference between types of locks, using the correct terminology, and understanding the basic simple mechanics are the useful skills. You also have to be able to install a lock in a wooden door or a steel one, the steel ones and aluminum frame glass doors have certain types of shims and wedges that make them fit in hollow spaces and allow for adjustments.
But consider, for 18 and hour, they must be looking for experience, and they have plenty of experience themselves to recognize it when it comes along. If the guy wants to hire you for less and let you learn, you could work up to the higher wage.

For 18 an hour, they want an effective employee, who can get the job done and fitted without haveing to come and ask questions three times before its over.

Fitting and installing new locks is relatively easy, repairing old equipment that may have broken parts you can no longer find, and other such things are the real problems in locksmithing, the customer never tells you the truth about the problem over the phone, and when you get there and find that the problem is 10 times as complicated as they told you when you made that phone estimate

[kolma]

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Key blank recognition is the first and most important skill. and knowing the difference between types of locks, using the correct terminology, and understanding the basic simple mechanics are the useful skills. You also have to be able to install a lock in a wooden door or a steel one, the steel ones and aluminum frame glass doors have certain types of shims and wedges that make them [urlhttp://www.kolma.co.il/?action=showarticle&cn=די×

[dougfarre]

Dlink says he got the job 3 days after he posted that he saw a job in the newspaper, and that he has to hand in the application within 2 weeks. That means the guy hiring decided to jump the gun and just hire dlink right away, and not wait and see how many other applicants there will be after the 2 weeks are over. He also got his first lockpicking kit in the mail ever the day he got hired, and picked a 4 pin padlock 10 times in a row (but hes not showing off or anything). By the way he hasn't been back to reply on our comments, and by his grammar he probably never graduated high school, or is still in high school. So what sums everything up, is that he a fig fat liar.

[linuxbz]

Thinking of what kind of business would snap up a guy with these credentials, I was reminded of this quote:

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. -- Groucho Marx