New invention, What is it good for...

[zeke79]

If you don't just tell us what this #$%& thing is I'll find a way to send you an E-slap .

Seriously, you're killing me here..... WHAT IS IT FOR THE LOVE OF G0D???

[MacGyver101]

The hook looks a little deep, but it's hard to tell without a scale... are you running the longer part of the hook along the top of a new key blank, and using the short end of the hook to scribe the maximum pin depth into the side of the key? (e.g., to give you a reference line that later helps you to estimate filing depths?)

Alternately, you've been using it clean your impressioning file, and the remaining chunk is all that's left...

[kg4boj]

Sidebar tension tool?

[jedidove]

To repeat myself:

Does it slide over the key blade (bumpy side on the cuts and the hook around the tip)?


or


Is it the size of the blade of a key? Do the bumps line up with common pin spacing?

[Wrenchman]

The measurements are, more or less: Length 50mm, breadth 1,10mm, width 0,90mm.

The space inside the the hook is about 5mm and the end
of the hook, is about 3mm.

Sidebar tension tool?

What is a Sidebar tension tool?



Wrenchman

[kg4boj]

A sidebar tension tool allows you to depress a sidebar in a sidebar lock allowing you to impression one... I do it all the time for GM locks but I dont know how well it works with various residential/commercial locks.

[Wrenchman]

A sidebar tension tool allows you to depress a sidebar in a sidebar lock allowing you to impression one... I do it all the time for GM locks but I dont know how well it works with various residential/commercial locks.

Thanks for that answer!

This thread is coming to an end and if you be good boys we can finish this tonight!

Lets have one more clue:

1. Clue "Impressioning" The tool is not doing any impressioning!
2. Clue "Measurement" The tool is not doing any measuring!
3. Clue "Preparation" The tool helps you when you want to ease
up an impression by measuring the pins in a padlock!

And one last word, this tool is made for a standard brass padlock,
about 20-50mm, but, a bobby pin can be modified to work
with any specific padlock size!



Wrenchman

[kg4boj]

I don't know what picks you have, but I sometimes pick padlocks and use a hook pick to find the pin heigths by feel and take a stab at it with a punch machine in the shop.

IE I pick the cylinder over, moove a hook back.... is pin 2 from bow higher or lower than pin 1? is pin 2 higher or lower than pin 3? with a limited quantifiable number of depths, knowing the highest and lowest and the rest in comparison can give you knowledge of the 1 to 1 bitting...

Maybe its a tool that fits underneath a ground down keyblank, so that the key is able to rock and move up and down a little more than its supposed to?

[kg4boj]

Then again, maybe it holds the rotating cylinder in the picked position if its springloaded?

[Wrenchman]

Then again, maybe it holds the rotating cylinder in the picked position if its springloaded?

That is exactly it, congratulations you have won!

Thanks for playing!



Wrenchman

[freakparade3]

Just tell us what it is or I will pay DB $1000 to ban you from the site

[kg4boj]

So, what do I win? admission to the advanced forums? hehehe

[freakparade3]

So, what do I win? admission to the advanced forums? hehehe

You win. He will now teach you the art of capaulla, the brazillian are of dance fighting. Ebjoy your prize.

[kg4boj]

Hah, I don't have a back for gymnastic martial arts anymore. I do however have a blackbelt in tang soo do.

[zeke79]

I trained in Gun Fu for over 20 years now .