Homemade pinning tools

[MBI]

Hello,

Here are two tools I made few days ago for taking a lock apart, and rebuild it.

The first one is for keeping driver pins in the shell for a repinning of the lock or for filing a key for the lock. (only usable with a european lock, but another one can be made for any kind of lock) :


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The second one is inspired from this one : http://www.hpcworld.com/Tools/t_tpt5.htm , for putting the driver pins in their place. Used in conjunction with the tool above :


Very useful, and very easy to make (The white thing is Plastic, and I modified the screw with a dremel for a better handling. You can directly screw it in the platic hole.)

If you have improvements to propose, feel free to share

FrenchKey

[femurat]

Interesting. Now you just have to put up an automatized one Seriously, you did a very good job.

Is it easy to slide back the tweezers once inserted a pin? I'm thinking about the shapes of the first and second tool you made... are they complementary in any way? Or are they just flatten? I'm asking this because when I repin a lock the most annoying thing is when the driver pins keeper doesn't slide freely on the top of the last inserted pin. I solved this little issue by filing 30 degree its tip.
In your situation it could be interesting to think how to make this two tool tips matching.

Cheers

[FrenchKey]

Hello,

no, I haven't such problem, because I can keep the pin with the "driver pins keeper" (the first tool of my post), while still holding it with the pushing tool.

Here is the procedure for me :
1/ Holding the pin with the tweezer, just over its hole,
2/ Pushing it with the pushing tool. At that moment, I can release the pin from the tweezer.
3/ Sliding the "driver pins keeper" against the pushing tool tip. So in that sense, they are complementary
4/ And now, I can remove the tweezer from the lock if I want, the "driver pins keeper" holds the pins in place.

here is a drawing of the step 3/ :


I hope I answered your question, if not, let me know

FrenchKey

[femurat]

I'm impressed by your detailed explanation and drawings! Yes, you definitely answered my question.

Thanks

[FrenchKey]

You're welcome
And I had some minutes to kill and some skills to improve on Sketchup, so it was nice to draw that for you