Lock identification

[mikenflorida]

Picked up this lock for nothing today at my local Re-store, bought another and they threw in this one. It is a kwikset with some sort of ?gate? in the front with a slit in it. It feels like there are more. I successfully picked one side of this (keyed on both sides but I have no key. I am having trouble with the other side. If I knew what model it was I could google it and get some more info on it. Thanks.

[Squelchtone]

Hello,

Just wanted to share some pro tips on displaying pictures in forum posts.

The forum's [image] commands only display something if the link you paste is a direct path to an actual .gif, .jpg, .png, .bmp image file.

The links you provided https://imgur.com/NrVuCHH and https://imgur.com/5LoJWdq are to a web page based photo album at imgur.com, and each album page has 1 single photo in the HTML code.

The forum's [image] command doesn't know how to read an html web page and figure out which part is the photo you are trying to show.

But.. right after you upload to imgur, you can Right Click over the photo, then click on "Copy image address" and then paste it here in your posts and wrap that copied link with [image] commands like this:

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[image]https://i.imgur.com/NrVuCHH.jpeg[/image]

which looks like this:



and

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[image]https://i.imgur.com/5LoJWdq.jpeg[/image]

looks like this:



hope that helps,
Squelchtone

[mikenflorida]

Thank you.

[billdeserthills]

Your lock is the predecessor to the Kwikset Titan-- it uses 6 pins, instead of 5 like a regular kwikset pin tumbler lock. When these first came out, the cylinder & plug were actually solid brass, the way yours is. Then Black & Decker found a way to cheapen the process & began using all pot metal in the Titan line, likely in order to get the CEO that fat yearly bonus

Here is the last generation of the Titan lock in all it's pot-metal glory
https://www.ebay.com/itm/403180560743?e ... SwGt1hSk6Q

The seller says this is a Titan model 780 but they are mistaken as the double deadbolt always ends with a #5, so 785 is the actual model #