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Looking for a deadbolt cylinder in UK

Having read the FAQ's you are still unfulfilled and seek more enlightenment, so post your general lock picking questions here.
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Looking for a deadbolt cylinder in UK

Postby cyclops1101 » 9 Jan 2007 10:16

Hi,
Anybody know of a UK based supplier of cheap pin tumblers that can be easily repinned for practise purposes.
Like this one http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00081N9MC.01-A25H918G976PNM.MZZZZZZZ.jpg or preferably just an easy to seperate plug and cylinder for someone who has never attempted a repinning/lock breakdown before?

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Postby UWSDWF » 9 Jan 2007 10:22

ebay
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Postby cyclops1101 » 9 Jan 2007 10:29

Okay, cool. but is there a brand thats easier to take apart and repin than another e.g 1 retainer thats easily removed and replaced?
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Postby Shrub » 9 Jan 2007 10:32

All the same, get a replacement cylinder made by one of the popular companies, Yale, ERA, Union etc and you will be ok,

You should pay around £5-£10 for a cylinder,
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Postby UWSDWF » 9 Jan 2007 10:32

any deadbolt is pretty easy... think cheap, I'm not sure about UK cheap brands but the cheapest model at your local bigbox store should do...
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Postby UWSDWF » 9 Jan 2007 10:34

HERE

theres a pretty cheap one and it's in this 'United Kingdom' where ever the heck that is....
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Postby cyclops1101 » 9 Jan 2007 10:49

Great. Thanks all.
Just one more quickie, the lock shown by UWSDWF can easily be made repinnable by removing a circlip at the back of the cylinder and then rotating the plug of center etc (the method described by numerous tutorials ive found around, Thanks again for this great forum!)
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Postby njhowen » 9 Jan 2007 12:15

virtually every hardware store, electronics shop, shoe repair place and odds/bobs shop sells spare cylinders, the ones that iv picked up retail for only £3-4, cheap nublet ones, some/most have at least one spool./mushroom pin, easy to repin by said method, so with a few you can make a variety of lock diffculties.
Makes it more enjoyable when you have been struggling for an hour to open a certain lock once, to take a step back and open a lock that you have mastered for a while, sometimes it helps me to refocus on ingoring the act of actually opening the lock and instead concentrating on moving individual pins. :D
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