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CUSTOMERS WATCHING OVER YOUR SHOULDERS

This is the old Locksmith business info area and will be broken down to fill in the new sections below.

Postby Jaakko » 8 Sep 2008 7:22

khelben wrote:that usualy causes them to back off a bit.

"Could you step back please, your car may explode."

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Postby zeke79 » 8 Sep 2008 21:27

I usually work on the passenger door unless it has been tampered with. In the case I am working on the passenger side door, I simply ask them to stand to my right and watch for something. It may have nothing to do with the job at all but if I keep them looking through the windshield while I am working.

Something like "could you look inside the car through the windshield and watch for any movement of the lock button to jiggle, the door handle to jiggle etc. I always try to keep them to my right if I use a jiffy jack system on the passenger door so they cannot see just how far the airbag is forcing the door frame open as some people tend to freak out when they see that. If done right, the jiffy jack will do no damage to the window frame. Some cheap imports will tweak easily but when the customer is paying, a knee or body against the inside of the door and a hard pull on the top of the window fram will ensure no wind noise when they are driving down the road. This will usually never happen unless you start using multiple air bags to get the gap needed as I have seen some locksmiths use. Most airbags have a type of relief valve on the end of the pump bulb that only allow you to only apply so much pressure before the relief valve starts venting out of the back of the bulb instead of adding more air to the bag.

Hope that makes sense and helps someone out. Steve Youngs manuals will detail the opening procedure and state whether a jiffy jack tool should be used as a second or third opening procedure. It will also tell you whether a probe light will help locate the correct linkage when using door cavity tools. If you are going to use a probe light, it helps to use a tool made by hpc to clean the glass under the weather stripping which never gets washed so is commonly very dirty.
For the best book out there on high security locks and their operation, take a look at amazon.com for High-Security Mechanical Locks An Encyclopedic Reference. Written by our very own site member Greyman! A true 5 Star read!!
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