by kg4boj » 6 Oct 2007 20:27
I don't normally take apart anyting in the upper region of the yale locks when I rekey them, I do believe though that most yale locks have easily removable caps over the springs on the upper pins, and as such I'd take the lock apart, see whats inside, and once its apart you can rekey it back to your old key with the pins that are in there if you spill them.... A follower is handy here, you can drop one or two pins after removing the plug and see if there is a security driver or not....
If you don't have a follower, get a set of drill bits, find the largest one that will go in and still fit and grind off all but the shank with a dremel.
Thats what I do with some old pin tumbler locks with odd sized plug diamaters (read ford 5 pins) and I dont really like those multi sized hollow followers HPC makes that fit inside eatchother, and the universal springloaded follower suck... drillbits will work fine.
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