I have this on loan from a friend for a while. It appears to be a wafer lock with every other disk on the opposite side of the keyway. He's still looking for the key but he said it was unusually long. Any ideas?
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I'm told it was aquired in the Las Angelas area. I'm going to have to make a new tension wrench before I can get anywhere, what I have on hand just doesn't do any good on it.
Yeah, that'd be a doulbe-sided wafer lock then. Make a wrench to tension it from the center, then pick each side (at least that's how you usually do it - that keyway is so rounded it might not work.) You might have to go back an forth a few time. They usually aren't that much harder than a regular wafer lock.
schlage wafer lock.. well made lock.... eazy to pick... double sided key.. wafers on the top and bottom.
This lock uses a binary system of wafers.. either On or off or in this case cut or not cut .. there are no differnt depths of wafer.
Question? where did you find that ? as far as I know Schlage stopped manufacturing that lock 25 + years ago
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I got it through a friend of a friend so I don't know exactly where it came from. Most likely from an abandoned building or other very old building, obviously. Thanks for the info guys, that's really helpfull information.
They are the older A series locksets, still in use on some older homes in my area.
keysman's explanation is right on. Either a cut or not in each spacing, top or bottom. Also a tip/ward cut, top or bottom. A key having the wrong tip cut will not enter the cylinder all the way.
dr_dentz wrote:Schlage locks are most easily identified by the "C" shape profile to the keyway & by the location if fitted, motel, hotel public buildings ect, ect
This is not always true. Schlage has plenty of keyways that don't look anything like a 'C'. Furthermore, there are plenty of other locks that have 'C' keyways that are not made by Schlage.
