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by FarmerFreak » 15 Feb 2010 18:45
If the lock is not masterkeyed (not keyed to multipull keys), then any competent locksmith should be able to make you a key without rekeying it. If the lock is masterkeyed, since sometimes these come masterkeyed, then a competent locksmith won't likely make you a key. This is because there is no way of knowing if they are making you a master key, the individual key, or a ghost key,...without having all of the locks. Hopefully the locks you have aren't masterkeyed.
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by nightman76 » 15 Feb 2010 18:53
FarmerFreak wrote:If the lock is not masterkeyed (not keyed to multipull keys), then any competent locksmith should be able to make you a key without rekeying it. If the lock is masterkeyed, since sometimes these come masterkeyed, then a competent locksmith won't likely make you a key. This is because there is no way of knowing if they are making you a master key, the individual key, or a ghost key,...without having all of the locks. Hopefully the locks you have aren't masterkeyed.
Ah dam I think they are masteredkeyed. When I bought the drawers awhile ago I remember only getting like one key that fit all of them. I wonder if a bump key will work....
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by FarmerFreak » 15 Feb 2010 19:57
nightman76 wrote:Ah dam I think they are masteredkeyed. When I bought the drawers awhile ago I remember only getting like one key that fit all of them. I wonder if a bump key will work....
This doesn't necessarily mean that they are masterkeyed. That just means that they are all keyed alike. If the lock is master keyed it will have master pins in it. But more to the point, if they are masterkeyed. Then one key will work them all, and there will likely be a separate key for each individual lock that won't work any of the other locks. If you wanted to know for sure. You could carefully take one of the locks apart and see if it has any master pins in it. Master pins would be any pin(s) between the key pin and the driver pin.
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by nightman76 » 16 Feb 2010 16:36
Yea I took it apart not so carefully lol. There was little pins and then longer ones. So those seem like masterpins. I lost the order for it the pins too 
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by yng_pick » 22 Feb 2010 12:14
How many drawers do you have? Did you ever have keys to them?
When you took it apart, do you recall there being chambers with 3 pins?
If you were to bring several of the locks with you, a locksmith may be willing to take them apart, and through decoding create a master key. But depending on how many there are, you may just as well have them key them alike. Being drawer locks it may just be cheaper to replace them.
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by piepie » 26 Feb 2010 20:48
nightman76 wrote:Yea I took it apart not so carefully lol. There was little pins and then longer ones. So those seem like masterpins. I lost the order for it the pins too 
There r Driver pins and key pins.
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