Robotnik's Newly Rekeyed Cylinders

[Robotnik]

After picking a cylinder open, I always attempt to cut or appropriate an original key for it. These are some of the ones I've done over the last couple months.

Top:
Medeco Biaxial restricted keyway mortise, in a Schlage chassis. Fit an open Medeco key to this via a method that's not likely open-forum appropriate.
Medeco Biaxial restricted keyway I was somehow able to find a key for.

Top Row:
Russwin 6-pin
'Schlageset' (Kwikset pinned with Schlage pins & specs) 5-pin
Yale 6-pin mortise (5 chambers pinned)
Sargent 6-pin mortise (thanks to jeffmoss26 for the blank)
Kwikset 5-pin (boring, I know)

Bottom Row:
Corbin 5-pin
Unbranded SC4 6-pin
Kwikset 5-pin (another one)
Unbranded SC1 5-pin

And yes, they all work:


The Corbin, the Yale and the Medeco not mounted to the chassis were existing keys I pinned the cylinders to, but the remainder were hand-cut. More Kwikset than I'd consider respectable, but had to learn somewhere .

[Robotnik]

The SC4 cylinder is also rekeyed; forgot about that one.

[jeffmoss26]

Nice work! I believe the unbranded SC4 is an OEM Schlage, I have several like it.
Do you need blanks for the Russwin? If so, send me a picture.

[Squelchtone]

I spy a Medeco DBK dealer based keyway! mind sharing which one it is?

[Robotnik]

Nice work! I believe the unbranded SC4 is an OEM Schlage, I have several like it.
Do you need blanks for the Russwin? If so, send me a picture.

Nice, didn't know Schlage made unbranded cylinders like that. Had figured on it being generic, though the quality is notably higher than any other generic Schlage I'd seen.

I do actually need OEM blanks for the Russwin if you have some available; that was the one I couldn't find. WIll send over a pic; the RU-1 Curtis generic blank pictured fits the keyway like a glove, but is only 5-pin, so the 6th pin is set by the tip of the key (not to mention the fact that it's not OEM...)

[Robotnik]

I spy a Medeco DBK dealer based keyway! mind sharing which one it is?

Don't know specifically which keyway it is; this was more a stroke of luck than anything. I originally purchased the cylinder as part of a lot from an eBay seller out of California (was definitely someone's practice lock; the bottom of the keyway had begun to wear down from repeated pick exposure). The keys were purchased as a $0.99 lot of 15 cut keys out of Florida from someone who had no idea what they were (listed as "Eagle" keys, no mention of Medeco whatsoever). Couldn't believe it, but the key fit perfectly, and I pinned it up to one of the keys with some spare Biaxial pins I had laying around.

[jeffmoss26]

Send me a close-up pic and I'll see what I can do. According to the Corbin/Russwin cylinder manual, RU1 is 852 keyway which was very rare in 6 pin.

[cledry]

Pretty certain that unbranded one isn't from Schlage. Looks like the generic ones from Em-D-Kay. I think mostly they came from Italy.

[jeffmoss26]

I could be wrong, it's happened before lol. I just assumed they were Schlage, seemed to be decent quality.
Here's a 6 pin E keyway from my inventory:

[cledry]

AFAIK, Schlage always puts a scalp on their cylinders. However I could be wrong. I seem to recall those holes above each chamber though for the EM D Kay stuff.