What Did You Impression Today?

[tjohn]

I meant to say a 0 pin, looks like one of them does have a 1 or 2

[tjohn]

After going back and looking closely at your cuts on those, I take all that back ^ I just can't figure out how to edit or delete my posts so never mind all that except it's a 1092M (we sell a a lot of those)

[Robotnik]

Had two Yale 563 black iron padlocks laying around for awhile. Finally hit up my local locksmith on the off chance they carried the obsolete blanks these take, and got lucky (I needed two, they had three in storage).

These are three lever padlocks with a single ward in the throat area. One down, and one to go!

[Silverado]

Very cool. That's a really nice looking lock too!

[mseifert]

Nice Work Robot

[Robotnik]

Appreciate it. Hopefully my luck holds in impressioning this one's twin.

[Robotnik]

Impressioned this Shell Oil Wilson-Bohannan 5-pin today. It was acting pretty squirrelly - marks were erratic, and the lock went into something like a deep false set for the last third - so I was surprised when the plug turned.

[mseifert]

Another nice job.. Makes me want to break out my WB and attempt an impression

[Robotnik]

Another nice job.. Makes me want to break out my WB and attempt an impression

Have fun! I've had good success with 621s, but 620s with their tighter spacing have been maddeningly difficult for me.

[jeffmoss26]

beautiful WB!

[Robotnik]

Managed to open the (uglier) twin to my previous Yale 563. As mentioned before, these are three lever, and the cuts can be duped into the opposing side to make the key bi-directional.

[Jacob Morgan]

Found a source for corrugated Masterlock blanks http://www.mrlock.com/lock-key-blanks-1/master-lock-key-blanks?page=2.



Not the cleanest job of filing, but it worked.

[Robotnik]

I generally can't resist going the "master key" route with Master warded padlocks, but they do make for great impressioning practice.

Here's what I knocked out today:

Sargent 5 pin, LL keyway. Only blank I had that fit was a Curtis S6 (6 pin LN keyway); took a bit of material off the tip with a grinder. Not the most difficult impression; bitting ended up being 44441, though this does underscore the necessity of not taking too much material off the key when marking spacing. A Sargent 1 cut is basically no material removed from the key, and if I'd taken more than a swipe with the file, I'd have been screwed from the start.

[Robotnik]

Wilson Bohannan Model 85 lever padlock. Hardest part was fitting the key - took way more file work to shape the blank than it did to cut the single bit .

[Jacob Morgan]

Not anything exciting, just a disc tumbler to a tool cabinet. This is my third or fourth disc tumbler and the process is a lot faster now. The Y13 key blank was not a perfect fit, but it works smoothly anyway.