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Medeco question

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Medeco question

Postby immolate » 5 Sep 2008 15:49

I've been fooling around with duplicating keys for a while now , I'm getting into the medeco and abloy. No specific details here but has anyone ever contemplated the idea of using a camera for the purposes of duplicating these keys? The mould on clay just doesn't bond well and rarely succeeds especially with the sidebars.

I realize there will be DPI issues and what not, but if anyone has attempted this or succeeded before I would like to hear from you.


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Postby Engineer » 5 Sep 2008 15:55

I've not done it myself, but I've read of people taking pictures of keys, printing them on old plastic "credit-card" type plastic cards and cutting them out, to make a working key.

The moral of this is to never leave your keys alone, they don't need to be borrowed to get a set cut, even a phone with a camera in it will do.
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Postby straightpick » 5 Sep 2008 20:02

Yes, I have done that on car lockouts, where the keys are laying on the seat. Sight read the cuts, clip them out on the clipper and open the door with the key. Impresses the hell out of the customer!
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Postby Engineer » 5 Sep 2008 21:00

Straightpick - I can't sight read cuts yet at that distance, you impress the heck out of me too!
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Postby Lauren » 5 Sep 2008 21:40

If duplicating keys is your pleasure, I would machine a blank out of brass plating before attempting to cast one :wink: .
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Postby Mutzy » 6 Sep 2008 1:11

Engineer wrote:Straightpick - I can't sight read cuts yet at that distance, you impress the heck out of me too!


It usually depends on the angle the key is on, but some people do use binoculars/scopes. If you know the available depths and spaces, and they key doesn't look like a brass toothpick, then you've got a pretty good chance of reading the key through the window.
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Postby globallockytoo » 6 Sep 2008 6:11

Opening a car with opening tools is much quicker although less skillful.

Getting back to medeco....the credit card trick is brilliant and with M3 you only need a paper clip as well.

At least there are still some brands that dont make it so easy.
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