how to copy a key

[hrafni]

i need to learn to copy a key on 15 minutes without going to a locksmith or something so plase help me!!

[treboR]

[zeke79]

How about you change that sig line.

[Ezer]

Nice interest you have their as well.

[Varjeal]

I changed it for him.

[Shrub]

15 mins? go spend $40000 on a key machine and come back to us either that or ask to borrow the key for longer

Can i get my BBQ mits out please?

Oh ok,

Sorry

[illusion]

if you have an original key, clamp a blank perfectly square with your cut key in a vice, then file the blank down to size... if you don't have a blank then you can use that metal brick strap which is easily availible... I think hacksaw blades might work.... this all depends upon whether you have an original key.
Be very careful when you are filing down the key as not to damage it. This has worked for me, but maybe someone here knows a better way which can be done faster...

I hope that was helpfull

[Shrub]

if you have an original key, clamp a blank perfectly square with your cut key in a vice, then file the blank down to size... if you don't have a blank then you can use that metal brick strap which is easily availible... I think hacksaw blades might work.... this all depends upon whether you have an original key.
Be very careful when you are filing down the key as not to damage it. This has worked for me, but maybe someone here knows a better way which can be done faster...

I hope that was helpfull

Read the sig the question and then the replies, i think it was too helpful

[illusion]

i wondered about the first message...

i guess it was then... I mess up everytime i try to help...

yeah... well.... i hope if you abuse this info that you will be haunted by the most painfull of erectile dysfunctions, and be sodomised in hell by the possessed swine.... okay... i think that warning was good enough

and may as well delete that post i previously made...

[Shrub]

The info is ok just perhaps given to the wrong person, its no biggy im sure if enough intellegence was there the search button would have been used at some point and the info gained from another thread

[sivlogkart]

Maybe he comes from a place where every cell has internet access.

Trak

[vector40]

Just to salvage this thread, illusion, have you actually tried copying a bitting onto a "non-blank" such as brickstrap? Does that work? I figure it would basically work like a perfect jiggler -- put it in and just lift it perfectly straight until it opens.

[illusion]

hmm... the brickstrip is usualy bigger than the keyblank, so you file it to the same size as the blank to make a perfect replica.

Yes it does work! I have done it personaly... In fact my Squire shed padlock, and a cylinder on my pickboard are both operated this way (lost the keys )... i copy every key i have onto brickstrap so I always have a spare... it's free, you can get lots of it, and is fast

the only issue is complicated wards on locks... but i have found that with a bit of patience the brickstrap can be bent into the right shape for the lock...

a bit of duct-tape on the handle with a hole in it makes for better carrying, or you could just drill a hole into the metal and just sand it...

I've been waiting for someone to ask that... thanks

O yeah... and it works just like a normal key : put it in, turn it
place a piece next to the cut key, and copy as closely as you can... it took me 4 minutes to do two of mine, but this was the first time, and I wasn't sure.. now it's much faster...

[n2oah]

What did his original sig say? Man, I always miss out on the action.

[rayman452]

I know eh?
Ok, if you want to copy the key, what they did in the CSI episode is accurate. Just punch the key into a block of cheese you find in the garbage. The garbage decomposition process makes the cheese a perfect medium for imprintation, and with this you can make a key cut easily from bending a paper clip into the shape.