Impressioning Exercise

[YouLuckyFox]

I recently have a bit more time on my hands and on Christmas I decided to have some fun and try something with impressioning that I had not done before: I impressioned for a 3 pin lock and then added 2 pins to see if the marks appeared differently when they were made on peaked portions of a keyblank. It occurred to me to take pictures of the process for a friend and document the process, and I ended up making the hyperlink presentation. The photos are very high-resolution so the size of the document is very large, for that reason I split up the PDF version into several parts to help make things easier for anyone without Google Fiber . The content is identical between versions. Hope some of you enjoy this, it was a fun process for me!

PowerPoint version:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/35vxtig1wdlbs ... rcise.pptx

PDF Version
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8opqqshs8ayt9 ... ercise.pdf

PDF Version split up:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0qqsjabxwlkty ... se%20A.pdf

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ncd32w7tgla8s ... se%20B.pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6wz6auuw74hwc ... se%20C.pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3rgubzawas9ys ... se%20D.pdf

[phrygianradar]

Love the Powerpoint, my hat's off to you! Very cool. I am jealous of the whole "time off" thing you mentioned though...

[YouLuckyFox]

Love the Powerpoint, my hat's off to you! Very cool. I am jealous of the whole "time off" thing you mentioned though...

Thanks for looking it over! Yeah, the time off has been sorely needed, I'll make the most of it while I have it!

[mechanical_nightmare]

Amazing quality pictures... I will know better what to look for now. I could not get the powerpoint to work for some reason, but the PDF's work just fine. My adventures with impressioning have been kind of miserable so far, but I've hardly had enough time to really focus and practice consistently. Thank you!

[jeffmoss26]

Very nice presentation. The youtube links did not seem to work though.

[YouLuckyFox]

Sorry about that, the following link should have a fixed presentation:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/svgsnj7gu31rolr/Impressioning%20Exercise.pdf

For those who have already downloaded it that just want the links to the videos, here they are:

HVAC Tape + Marks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa5oNz_P1Dk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlqcv6cgfc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7vNsNzie7U

Impressioning Marks - HVAC Tape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2qn8Kcgnxg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBbHh9ecwzU

Plug Turning 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWWVWuEd9LY

Plug Turning 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPidLt_6orI

[jeffmoss26]

The links worked when I downloaded the powerpoint.

[YouLuckyFox]

Amazing quality pictures... I will know better what to look for now. I could not get the powerpoint to work for some reason, but the PDF's work just fine. My adventures with impressioning have been kind of miserable so far, but I've hardly had enough time to really focus and practice consistently. Thank you!

Sorry to hear the powerpoint didn't work for you, hope this helps you somehow! Impressioning takes a while to get a hang of, I recommend progressively impressioning from one pin stack in the lock towards 5 pins as it may be. Also, the hardest part for me when starting out was getting the initial marks; marking the pin chamber positions using a marker or the HVAC tape method and then filing a few .001"s off the key blank will greatly help out with getting the initial process of impressioning off to a good start.

The links worked when I downloaded the powerpoint.

Thanks for letting me know, and thank you for viewing the presentation.

[YouLuckyFox]

This is not meant to be a thread bump. I was showing this presentation to a friend tonight and noticed that the powerpoint link didn't work on his computer. I came home and found that it worked on mine. If anyone has trouble with the links feel free to let me know. Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to look at this.

[teamstarlet]

That's one HUGE PDF! Great resource. Thanks for sharing

[YouLuckyFox]

It really is, sorry about that! Looking back, I see that the least I could do was put it in a zip folder, but I figured chopping it into parts would serve to the same end. I wanted the pictures to be as high resolution as possible, otherwise the marks would be hard to see. Thank you for taking the time to view my presentation, I wish the best of luck to you . I recommend the powerpoint if you can open it (if not try Open Office) because the scrolling between hi-res pictures tends to ruin the presentation, at least for me.