Category: Blog
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Slide-Co Patio Locks: Problems
Today a customer asked me to put a lock cylinder in a sliding glass door so I got out a Slide-Co SC1 cylinder I had bought for the purpose. Had to rekey the cylinder so I started unscrewing the cap and discovered that the cylinder turned without even having a key in it. When I…
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Key in Knob Cylinders for Sale
Sport lockpickers have had to resort to going to garage sales to get their locks inexpensively. They had to learn to rekey their locks, requiring that they buy more equipment. No longer! I now sell cylinders customized to order for people to practice with keyed to their specifications. There are many options to choose from. …
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High Security Car Keys…Soon
Maple Leaf Locksmith LLC now has the capacity to clone high security transponder-enabled car keys that are milled. If your key looks like one below, I can probably clone it. I am working on a javascript selector so that the end user can find out if I can clone their key before they call.
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Thieves Are Probably Hacking Keyless Cars Right Now
Interesting developments in the game of leapfrog between security researchers and criminals. Looks like the criminals figured something out before the white-hats this time. The prevailing theory on the matter is that thieves have figured out how to open cars that use fobs (plastic bits that replace the need for a key; the driver can…
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Key Safes Leave Your Property Vulnerable.
I just got back from rekeying a mansion that I rekeyed a few years ago. The reason they paid me over $300 to rekey again so soon is because contractors left a “key safe” hanging on a doorknob at the side of the house in an alleyway, and somebody came along with some boltcutters and…
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High Security SFIC Cores For Sale
I just got my first batch of SFIC interchangeable cores from CX5. These have a sidebar to make drilling and picking your locks more difficult. That makes them harder to bypass than a conventional SFIC cylinder. They also use a restricted keyway so you don’t have to worry about unauthorized duplications. Give me a call…
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My Baldwin Thumblatch Won’t Open My Door Anymore
UPDATE: I made a video illustrating how to fix this problem yourself if your lock is not covered by Baldwin’s lifetime warranty or you don’t care about it. This weekend three separate customers called about their Baldwin locks not working from the outside (though in two of the cases, they worked from the inside). In…
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Take a Picture of Your Key for Safe-Keeping (Just Don’t Post it on Facebook)
Sometimes people are shocked to find out that they can have a lost key replaced simply by having somebody who still has the key send a picture of it in text message to me. If the code isn’t stamped on the key, the code cuts of the key can still be decoded. I accomplish this…