In the 80's my friend worked with a car repossesser. After towing a car from a rough neighborhood, he would sometimes stop in the gas station as a safe zone and make trunk keys. He would take a blank (I think) and wiggle it back and forth in the lock with a vise grip, look at it, then file the blank one spot at a time, I never really paid much attention, he might have been using other tools/pattern masters (not sure), but within about 5 minutes (going over and over again) he had a key to open the trunk. How is this done?
@@paulromsky9527 not impressioning, but I have a video where I cut a key by looking at the wafers. Impressing is just turning the key in lock to get marks, then you file those marks and repeat till the lock opens, that creates a key
@@thewhittierlocksmith121 Ok, watching your other videos, so I guess the tumblers make marks in the blank, I guess when a mark stops walking down (the gap at the shear has been reached) you stop filing down for that tumber. I think I am going to try it on an old lock for which I lost the key.
@@thewhittierlocksmith121 Ok, watching your other videos, so I guess the tumblers make marks in the blank, I guess when a mark stops walking down (the gap at the shear has been reached) you stop filing down for that tumber. I think I am going to try it on an old lock for which I lost the key.
Just a tip, edit the Videos. Like saying mm when it is Inches or talking about manufacturing process you know nothing about. When you measure, the instrument you use is not real suitable as it is in the kind of sideways when you take the measurement. the reason you see a variation in size is called a tolerance. Materials also grow and shrink as temperature changes. So the measurement would be different in 30F weather vs 90F. Over all it is informative.
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Thank you! Little long, but good information regarding shim technique.
In the 80's my friend worked with a car repossesser. After towing a car from a rough neighborhood, he would sometimes stop in the gas station as a safe zone and make trunk keys. He would take a blank (I think) and wiggle it back and forth in the lock with a vise grip, look at it, then file the blank one spot at a time, I never really paid much attention, he might have been using other tools/pattern masters (not sure), but within about 5 minutes (going over and over again) he had a key to open the trunk. How is this done?
That is called impressioning.
@@thewhittierlocksmith121 Thanks, do you have a video on that?
@@paulromsky9527 not impressioning, but I have a video where I cut a key by looking at the wafers. Impressing is just turning the key in lock to get marks, then you file those marks and repeat till the lock opens, that creates a key
@@thewhittierlocksmith121 Ok, watching your other videos, so I guess the tumblers make marks in the blank, I guess when a mark stops walking down (the gap at the shear has been reached) you stop filing down for that tumber. I think I am going to try it on an old lock for which I lost the key.
@@thewhittierlocksmith121 Ok, watching your other videos, so I guess the tumblers make marks in the blank, I guess when a mark stops walking down (the gap at the shear has been reached) you stop filing down for that tumber. I think I am going to try it on an old lock for which I lost the key.
Where did you buy your caliper
i bought that one on amazon. I usually hate that caliper, but its perfect for measuring pins- due to the flat platforms
Love the idea, but this is not possible with European. The keys don't have numbers, and I don't think you can get the barrel out of the lock
Just a tip, edit the Videos. Like saying mm when it is Inches or talking about manufacturing process you know nothing about. When you measure, the instrument you use is not real suitable as it is in the kind of sideways when you take the measurement. the reason you see a variation in size is called a tolerance. Materials also grow and shrink as temperature changes. So the measurement would be different in 30F weather vs 90F.
Over all it is informative.