Need help with a key

[Flak123]

Hello, I am new to these forums and hope that I came to the right place. I am not interested in picking any locks today or for the near future, but what I am interested in is finding the right key. I have a friend who belongs to an association and their is a community pool that I would like to be able to go to regularly without bugging this friend for a key. I already have a locksmith who will cut the key and everything for me which is great, but I find myself running into the problem of finding the correct blank key.

He(The locksmith) told me I need to bring him a Platinum Reserve 6 pin key. I have searched and searched the internet for anything pertaining to this and so far no luck. Do any of you have any expertise on this matter. Where I would be able to buy one? It will need to be purchased online more than likely as the guy said to me.

Any help would be much obliged! I appreciate your time in reading this!

Thank you!

[Flak123]

I apologize. I called the key a Platinum Reserve. I meant to call it a Platinum Reverse. Sorry again.

[Evan]

Welcome to the forums... Sadly though it seems you have come here and joined for the wrong reasons...

This is a forum for the discussion of locks as a hobby and locks in general... It is not a place were advice on how to defeat security devices being used to keep out unauthorized people is discussed...

If you had a legitimate reason to possess a key to a condominium association's pool area, you could request one from the association, it is clear that you do not and are here to attempt to circumvent their security and obtain an unauthorized key...

That is not what this site is for...

~~ Evan

[Flak123]

Welcome to the forums... Sadly though it seems you have come here and joined for the wrong reasons...

This is a forum for the discussion of locks as a hobby and locks in general... It is not a place were advice on how to defeat security devices being used to keep out authorized people is discussed...

If you had a legitimate reason to possess a key to a condominium association's pool area, you could request one from the association, it is clear that you do not and are here to attempt to circumvent their security and obtain an unauthorized key...

That is not what this site is for...

~~ Evan

Hello Evan,
I appreciate you responding to my thread! When I said I needed a pool key made I meant I need a pool key made. I appreciate people who find lock picking enjoyable! I have never been good at it, nor have I really tried though. Maybe once with some paper clips, but that is another story. I have come to this forum and other forums with the same ordeal. They want an outlandish amount in my opinion.. $50.00 for another key. I am not this desperate to have a key, but I am desperate enough to seek peoples opinions and help. All in all it is just a pool key, I go there anyways with my friends, but I like to go their often and not everyone is "down" to go as often as I do.

Best Regards-

[cledry]

Sounds like the locksmith is pulling your leg.

Ditto on what Evan said.

[Buzo]

Fist off, A locksmith would not be able to just cut you a key without an original. Sedcondly, those types of pool access keys are most likely stamped "do not duplicate" which legaly prevents a locksmith from doing so.

And a second ditto on what evan said... we aren't here to assist people in bypassing established security mesures.

[Evan]

They want an outlandish amount in my opinion.. $50.00 for another key. I am not this desperate to have a key, but I am desperate enough to seek peoples opinions and help. All in all it is just a pool key, I go there anyways with my friends, but I like to go their often and not everyone is "down" to go as often as I do.

@Flak123:

Let me try to explain this to you from the condominium association's point of view...

They have keys to the pool gate for the owners and tenants living in the condos at that site... By charging $50 per key this keeps people from simply requesting an additional key when they have lost their copy... Lost keys reduce security and allow unauthorized people to use the pool, which is a huge liability exposure which all the owners of the condominiums would have to shoulder if they were sued above and beyond the amount their insurance coverage...

If you do not live on the property you have no legitimate right to possess a key to the pool gate... You are a guest and rightfully can only use the association amenities when you are accompanied by either a condo owner or authorized tenant...

The association charges the $50 key deposits and keeps them in a fund so that when enough keys have become lost or they feel the security has been breached they have enough to cover the re-keying costs and the expenses of cutting enough new keys to pass out to all the legitimate key holders who would swap their old key for a new one...

Your desire to use the facilities more often than your authorized friends is too bad, you don't live on the property so you can't be there as a guest without them... Your characterization of the $50 key deposit fee as "outlandish" only shows your disrespect for the security that the association has established which seems to work for them...

This sadly is not the first time the "I need a key to the pool gate" (or front door or dorm room) etc topic has come up here but it is not what this site is about...

~~ Evan

[Squelchtone]

People buy nice condos and live in gated communities with association fees and $50 dollar pool gate keys in order to get away from random friends of friends crashing an otherwise private pool.

Squelchtone

[MBI]

Platinum Reserve. Sounds more like a brand of Tequila to me, than any restricted key blank.

[averagejoe]

Sedcondly, those types of pool access keys are most likely stamped "do not duplicate" which legaly prevents a locksmith from doing so.

Not true at all, it keeps sheepish kids running the key cutter at hardware stores form copying them... that's about it.

[Flak123]

Okay. I appreciate all of your opinions, facts, and ultimately, your input. Thank you for your time and best of luck with lock picking. It seems like a skill set that only few posses. I applaud all of you for that. Have a good day / good night. Keep at what you are good at. Will just have to either suck it up and deal with it or just pay her the $50.00.

Best of luck-

[atticRR]

i need a key to the backdoor on my friends underground bank vault, the key is a spaztastick FK2, does anyone know where i can get one? Does this key bump resist? sheesh....

thanks though OP for being polite in your last post, that was cool.

[Squelchtone]

Okay. I appreciate all of your opinions, facts, and ultimately, your input. Thank you for your time and best of luck with lock picking. It seems like a skill set that only few posses. I applaud all of you for that. Have a good day / good night. Keep at what you are good at. Will just have to either suck it up and deal with it or just pay her the $50.00.

Best of luck-

I do applaud your professionalism here, sometimes we get folks who are not as understanding and things degrade quickly.

On that note, for all members of the forum, I've noticed some bickering lately, and I'm no saint, I sometimes get in on it, so let's all have a good Friday, a great weekend, and be excellent to each other.

Thanks to all members for being a part of this community, you guys rock!

Squelchtone

[atticRR]

word.....