On Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 at 00:08, Walter Belgers via cctalk 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Then there's impressioning, a technique very suitable to create a working key 
> from a key blank.

That's why I brought up the prospect of making some key blanks.  If a blank was 
made from just
soft enough metal it could be used to impression and file down a key that 
matches.

> Of course, you can also disassemble the lock and measure pin lengths. To get 
> the correct
> lengths, there's databases. Using a dremel is not the easiest way to do this.

A good pair of calipers would be about all that would be required.  Thing is, 
unlocking the
mechanism would be the easiest way of going about it.  I'd take a go at picking 
it for that
purpose, but there might be other methods I don't know about.

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