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Best/SFIC General Bumpers

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Best/SFIC General Bumpers

Postby v12v12 » 18 Oct 2006 21:14

Has anyone ever made a bump key set from BEST/other SFIC type keys? I've got quite a collection of old lost keys and from surplus/estate sales. What do I do with them? I'd hate to just toss out some perfectly good metal! I've read all about the all the master/control pins that make picking such locks a real roll of the dice, so what about bumping?
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Postby Romstar » 19 Oct 2006 1:34

Bumping works just fine.

Matter of fact, it works more than fine.

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Postby v12v12 » 19 Oct 2006 1:41

Thanks for the reply!

You wouldn't happen to have any diagrams of how I should cut the groves? Since BEST are protected keys, I'll have to grind them down myself. I've noticed that the actual cut area is WAY up the toward the front of the key, seems very unusual compared to most other keys?
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Postby Romstar » 19 Oct 2006 1:52

BEST, like almost every other I-Core lock is tip stopped, as opposed to shoulder stopped. You have to take this into consideration.

I assume you do not have access to a key cutter? If you did, it would be much easier to make these.

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Postby melvin2001 » 19 Oct 2006 3:26

you can also find space and depth keys on ebay that will help you get the distance between pins right along with the depth of 9 if thats what your shooting for. my friend recently used his space and depth keys as a key decoder too which is always fun.
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Postby v12v12 » 19 Oct 2006 16:42

THanks guys! Hrmm, no key cutter unfortunately... Yeah I notice the very long dist between the last depth cut and the missing neck of the key, made picking attempts futile since I wasn't paying much attention to the layout of my own keys! Do you have any links or pics of a hand filed/best bumpkey from a machine? That would be very helpful, I don't wanna waste these spare keys since they are hard to find.

Thanks!
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