Category: Blog
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An Ounce of Prevention = A Pound of Cure
Locks, like other mechanical systems with moving parts, need to be lubricated to increase their lifespan of trouble-free functioning. If you don’t lubricate your lock, it will become fussy after some years. If you have trouble with your lock not turning even though you or your husband or wife has been liberally coating the inside…
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How to Remove a Stuck Key from Your Door
Imagine this: you have just come home from a long day with the groceries and your feet hurt and you need a cup of tea and an easy chair in a bad way. You stick your key in the lock and unlock the door and turn it back to the position for removing the key,…
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Add a Lock to Your Sliding Door
Most sliding doors can be retrofitted with a lock cylinder. If your sliding door doesn’t have a lock on it and you want to be able to enter through this door, check to see if there is a small circular indentation in the middle of the handle on the outside. If there is, this is…
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Lose your padlock key? Never again!
Get with the times, buy a padlock that will last for sixty years and is rekeyable to your housekey. Getting a decent padlock doesn’t have to break the bank. They only cost $20, and they can be rekeyed for the common keyways like SC1, KW1, Medeco, etc. Minimize the number of keys you have to…
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Magnetic Locks Not Immune to Attack!
This morning I was browsing my usual collection of websites and rss feeds when I came across some really interesting stuff: these guys combined an arduino with some 8 sided magnets to make a decoder for magnetic locks such as the mcs and the miwa. What does this mean? It means that somebody with one…
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Install a Latch Guard!
If you own a warehouse in a bad part of town, people at some point might try to get into it. They usually attempt brute force attacks like hammering the lever or deadbolt off of the wall, or twisting the lever as hard as they can until a small part breaks inside which is why…
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When It’s Snowing, Don’t Lock Yourself Out!
Snow seems to throw people for a loop because it interrupts their well-practiced routines. When it gets really cold and starts snowing and icing, people do silly things that result in getting locked out of their houses and more often their cars. They turn the car on to get warm while they scrape the snow…
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Get a Padlock that Uses the Same Key as Your House
What if I told you that you can get a padlock for your toolshed or gate that used the same key as your front door? I know, I know: “Get out of town, you weaver of tales!” you will say. And yet, it is true! The Abus 83 series is rekeyable. I can sell you…