Calling all lockies: Need 9-Pin Tubular Bike Key Duplicated

[Omikron]

Alright, so by now I've been to nearly every major lockie within a 2 hour drive of here, and no one can duplicate this key.

It is a 9-Pin small bore tubular lock on my Masterlock Street Cuffs. What concerns me is that my keys are getting very worn down because they always end up getting banged around. They are starting to perform poorly and I need some new ones cut before it gets too bad. I called Masterlock and I was informed that Masterlock does not supply replacement keys for my particular line of locks.

Anyone out there have some suggestions on where to look? Has anyone successfully filed down a tubular key by hand before?

[Shrub]

If you hasve a laser machine a modified vice can be used, if you have a miller a dividing head can be used if nt make a ring that fits around a blank and drill it to depth finishing with a flat bottom drill.

Tubular locks arent as presise as other types of lock really and a few tenths of a mm is nothing either way.

[Omikron]

If you hasve a laser machine a modified vice can be used, if you have a miller a dividing head can be used if nt make a ring that fits around a blank and drill it to depth finishing with a flat bottom drill.

Tubular locks arent as presise as other types of lock really and a few tenths of a mm is nothing either way.

I don't have any of those things. Does anyone want to duplicate one for me?

[Shrub]

I can no problem at all but try and find someone closer to home first as that key is going to turn out expensive if its got to come to me and back.

[n2oah]

You might have luck calling ML directly.

[Omikron]

I called Masterlock and I was informed that Masterlock does not supply replacement keys for my particular line of locks.

You might have luck calling ML directly.

You might have db mentor you on 1337 ninja skills as well!

[n2oah]

I called Masterlock and I was informed that Masterlock does not supply replacement keys for my particular line of locks.

You might have luck calling ML directly.

You might have db mentor you on 1337 ninja skills as well!

Well I'll be ...

[Omikron]

It's funny...almost every locksmith I went to, this was how the conversation went:

Me: "I'm looking to get this 9-pin tubular key duplicated...it's an odd one. Can you do it?"
Lockie: "Of course!"
[I hand them the key.]
Me: "Are you sure? Others haven't been able to."
[Lockie takes a look at the key.]
Lockie: "Shouldn't be a problem at all!"
[Lockie spends a minute or two finding a the blank, puts it in the machine, begins to cut...pauses...some murmuring...consults with co-worker...more murmuring...comes back several minutes later, defeated.]
Lockie: "Looks like I can't do it."
Me: [Smiling.] "Thanks anyway."