Best brand locks

[guard70]

Redbull,

Here is a tip for picking Best locks. I find that you have to be more forceful with the picks. Harder and more abrupt raking and more umph when raising idividual pins. At tleast this is what I find most successful. I think the reason is because of a big pinstack. You have change key pins, master pins, control pins, and finally top pins. They're squeezed right in there. Good luck.

[Redbull83]

Are all those pins in the padlocks too? Because I only have a padlock.

[raimundo]

Best locks are not sold originally as single locks, they are always part of a large institutional package, including the padlocks, so yes, the ic in your padlock is just as much part of a masterkey system as any other best. If someone knows different just post the details.

[Beekeypr]

The "Patented by Kaba" is really a Kab "Peaks" cylinder. It is patent protected through about 2011. The 7-pin version of the core is really an 8 pin cylinder, with the eighth or "Peaks" pin as a patent protection to prevent replacement/bogus key blanks from being marketed.

The bottom peak on the key is to prevent the core from locking up when you rotate a key 180 degrees or more. If you were picking the core and turned the plug to 180 degrees, the top pin in the "peaks" space would fall down into the keyway. It could be pushed back out of the way to allow you to continue turning the plug.

[u]Peaks [/u]replaced the Best [u]PKS [/u](for patented keying system) when the patents that Best filed for were overturned. The PKS patents were fought by Aaron Fisch of Ilco (the key blank people) and Best Lock lost the battle. Best then adopted Peaks as their key control solution.

[Beekeypr]

PKS is the designation for Best's Premium Keying System, which was their formerly patented "keyways". The patents that they applied for were fought by Ilco and Best lost. They still sell it as an option because they have the tooling and the key blank manufacturers haven't yet started making the blanks, so they can still be considered somewhat restricted.

Best licenses the use of Peaks. Kaba was supplying cores and keys to Best with Best's & Kaba's name on them. Best is now manufacturing their own cores under license from Kaba.

The Peak pin, raised by the peak on the key is a patent "gimmick", but it still needs to be picked to it's shear line anyway in order for the plug to be rotated.