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Where can I buy an auto lock?

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Where can I buy an auto lock?

Postby WolfSpring » 8 Dec 2010 16:44

Where is the best site online I can get an automobile lock to practice on. Lockpicks.com has the clear ones, but I want an actual automobile lock prefereably from an actuall lock or lock pick site instead of an auto parts store so I can also buy some key blanks with it to learn how to pick and impression them. I get most of my supplies from one simple site but the only locks they sell are practice cut aways and clear and vending machine locks, they also give military discount and ship to Iraq.

Thanks
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Re: Where can I buy an auto lock?

Postby Poff » 8 Dec 2010 18:12

I would start with ebay or a local Pick Your Part/Ecology type junk yard. It will be way cheaper.
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Re: Where can I buy an auto lock?

Postby Poff » 8 Dec 2010 18:14

Poff wrote:I would start with ebay or a local Pick Your Part/Ecology type junk yard. It will be way cheaper.


I do not know why they do not allow editing. You can get blanks online cheap, you'll save a lot on the locks buying used. Clark is a good source of blanks if you have a license.
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Re: Where can I buy an auto lock?

Postby WolfSpring » 8 Dec 2010 18:22

Yeah I can get blanks cheap enough, my problem is this, most Ebay won't ship APO, even though it's the same and sometimes cheaper than the states, I would really like to get the stuff all from one place as I will probalby be ordering more as time goes. If I were home I'd go to the junk yard but I'm overseas and would rather deal with legitimate companies than random ebay people, though i will definately give it a look have them send to the wife then she send to me in one of my care packages.

Thanks.
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Re: Where can I buy an auto lock?

Postby meastabrook » 10 Dec 2010 11:05

if you want cheap automotive locks to play with, i would just go to the autowrecker, they have everything there. at my shop i even have doors and steering columns to practice on and teach my apprentices on.
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Re: Where can I buy an auto lock?

Postby WolfSpring » 10 Dec 2010 11:43

I really do appreciate the help guys, but here is the thing... I'm in Iraq I can't go to the junk yard or a store. I'm looking for something online that sells them, bugt I didn't want a separate site like an auto store just for a lock, I have fixed the problem. Wife is going to have someone go pull a few from the junk yard for me(she's pregnant or she'd go) and ship them out in a box she'd be sending anyways.

Thanks again for all the help.
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Re: Where can I buy an auto lock?

Postby femurat » 10 Dec 2010 13:04

how could you train the wife to go to the junk yard for you? tell me the secret of your success please :lol:
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Re: Where can I buy an auto lock?

Postby weilawei » 10 Dec 2010 13:51

femurat wrote:how could you train the wife to go to the junk yard for you? tell me the secret of your success please :lol:


Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. :wink:
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Re: Where can I buy an auto lock?

Postby WolfSpring » 10 Dec 2010 14:10

Try number first to internet timed out when I hit submit.

I really don't know what my secret is, here and I were friends first in High school and after I joined the Army we started talking and hit it off. I spoil my kids rotten but give them chores and influence them to play soccer and other activities. I make the money the wife spends the money, and not on shoes and junk. We are openly honest with everything, I tell her straight up, I think you shouldn't have bought this or that, not in an argument more like when she first bought a swiffer, "honey why did you buy a fad contraption when you have a friggen broom right there that you never use?" I let her know when I"m upset by saying honey that upsets me and this is why, how does that make you feel that I am upset. Basically I just talk to her. And it works, I don't know why. I'm not saying she'd be smart enough to go out there and take tools and get the lock, but I would give her the way to do it, or point her in the right direction and she would try her best or get someone to help, she's got that influence of being a blonde and saying, my husband is deploys and needs, and guys just seem to help her lol.

Anyways, besides ebay I am still stumped at where to get just a common lock, I'm thinking an auto repair shop that does body work, or even a dealership online. I've got nothing about ebay but I like to know where I can buy something at a specific price when i want to buy it.

Again thanks and good luck with the wife training 101 lol...
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