9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
1:57 a.m.
On 10/9/07, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 09:19:16 Ethan Dicks
wrote:
Heh... that's one of the reasons for the intricate multiple-facet and
other odd security keys - fewer locksmiths to license and train, and
less of of chance of one of them getting "excitable".
No... in my case, it wasn't that they *wouldn't* copy it - it was that
the copies would barely turn in the lock because the depths weren't
cut right and the pins were still binding. I finally came in with the
lock so they could see how bad the copies were and so that I could
leave with a good key.
Fundamentally, I think the problem was that they didn't get lots of
practice cutting round keys and so they just weren't good at it.
-ethan
problem with that, though, is that I've
occasionally had problems
getting round keys copied successfully. At one place (that I won't
return to), I eventually dragged in the lock because three previous
trips failed to produce a working key.
I use a shop run by an elderly Indian chap. Got his life story the first time
I went in to get a set of keys cut...
He told me that when he gets excited, say by the
presence of a ?20 note, he starts to forget some English words. Particularly
big complicated words, like "duplication" and "prohibited"...