Schlage Everest binding and tension

[femurat]

You make me want to dig up my two everest cylinders and play with them!

I see what you say about the tension tool being in the way. For this reason, I always use a homemade tok tension tool that takes very little space. It's a bicycle spoke bent and filed on the sides. Its width must tightly fit the keyway.

Cheers

[nite0wl]

You make me want to dig up my two everest cylinders and play with them!

I see what you say about the tension tool being in the way. For this reason, I always use a homemade tok tension tool that takes very little space. It's a bicycle spoke bent and filed on the sides. Its width must tightly fit the keyway.

Cheers

For that I tried a couple of experiments and found that by unwinding half of a standard paperclip, then bending and compressing the last 1/4" back on itself, it made a decent tool for holding the check-pin open so that I could use a Pry-bar type tension tool. If I was in a situation where I would have to use the 'left hand' tool, I would rather use this method.

[femurat]

I have these two everest that I picked a few times when I got them and then put in a drawer... so I dig them out and picked again.
I used the small diamond to lift the checkpin and the standard one to pick the standard pins.

The first one was almost picked, then I had to set the check pin and then finish to pick the standard pins.
The other one was completely picked and then I had to lift the check pin to turn the plug.
I picked them again the next day and the situation was the same.
There is not a big feedback in terms of plug turning when you set a single pin. But you definitely feel the pin bouncing free and you definitely feel that it no longer has a springy feel once picked. And you feel when you need to touch the check pin because the pins no longer give feedback.

Cheers

[nite0wl]

I have these two everest that I picked a few times when I got them and then put in a drawer... so I dig them out and picked again.
I used the small diamond to lift the checkpin and the standard one to pick the standard pins.

The first one was almost picked, then I had to set the check pin and then finish to pick the standard pins.
The other one was completely picked and then I had to lift the check pin to turn the plug.
I picked them again the next day and the situation was the same.
There is not a big feedback in terms of plug turning when you set a single pin. But you definitely feel the pin bouncing free and you definitely feel that it no longer has a springy feel once picked. And you feel when you need to touch the check pin because the pins no longer give feedback.

Cheers

Very nice Femurat. I think some of my early difficulty was a combination of dirt and dragging tools (the classic edge tension binding) but even after I addressed that these cylinders do give far less physical feedback than what I am used to with Schlage. The lack of security pins probably threw me off too (I have gotten so accustomed to spool-pins that not getting a false-set before an open confuses me sometimes).