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need help identifying a key blank

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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need help identifying a key blank

Postby HeadHunterCEO » 25 May 2004 19:09

any insight as to what blank this is would be appreciated

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Postby zeke79 » 25 May 2004 19:28

picture is not showing up for me. All i get is a box with a red x. :?
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Postby Mad Mick » 25 May 2004 19:32

I got the pic, but have no idea what the blank is........sorry.
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Postby tazama28 » 25 May 2004 21:39

post a pic showing the key as if your looking at it head on, then i'll try to tell you. head on meaning the tip of the key
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Postby David_Parker » 25 May 2004 23:21

I'm not too great at the whole art of key-blank identification, but I'm pretty much drawing a blank on this one. (Insert pun boo here)

Where did you find it? What type of machines was it located to? Is there any other writing or text besides 'DO NOT DUPLICATE'?

....and anyways, why do you want to know? Chances are, you shouldn't be opening it up.

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Postby CaptHook » 26 May 2004 0:02

hmmmm 1518? looks like its missing a ward though.
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Postby CaptHook » 26 May 2004 21:57

Headhunter, what blank was it? I broke out my key catalogs, cant find it by bow, closest I could find by profile of the blade is the 1518 and the mr1.
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Postby HeadHunterCEO » 26 May 2004 22:01

I am over it

by this time tommorrow this customer will have a shiny new schalge core in her knobs and 300 new copies

my guess is tha tthe last smith is either real protective of his business and used crazy propritery blanks ( he passed away last month)

or he used this beefy blank because it is quite robust and it is for a strage function knob on a heavily trafficed bathroom door at a marina
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Postby Varjeal » 27 May 2004 11:07

Looks like a Sargent, and probably is restricted, the picture has too much light though so I can't see the key wards very well. Good to hear you got it sorted out though.
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Postby HeadHunterCEO » 27 May 2004 17:51

Varjeal wrote:Looks like a Sargent, and probably is restricted, the picture has too much light though so I can't see the key wards very well. Good to hear you got it sorted out though.


i thought the same or some corb russwin prehaps.

either which way it will remain a mystery
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