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exploitedamerican@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Thats not the right keyblank…… the broken one looks like an sc1 or a y-11 and the little one looks like a y-1/m-1 for master locks.

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Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- exploitedamerican@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ive cut a lot of keys in my day and what makes them work besides the jagged pattern the pins fall into which allows the lock cylinder to turn are tbe pattern of groces along the horizontal shaft of the key. Sometimes other blanks will work if the slots are not to specific and the key slots are just vague/thin enough to fit into the cylinder but these 2 key blanks have very different slotting configurations
  
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  - exploitedamerican@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Looks like one of those assa a-xx high security commercial keys with extra slots, some of them even have stepped slots for additional pins in the cylinder.
    
    I guess you could copy a key from a picture but it would be a real pain.
    
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    SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Looks like one of those assa a-xx high security commercial keys
    
    I thought the same
    
    It would be easier to steal keys off of someone’s desk or just pick the lock over stalking someone online, verifying you know their location irl, decoding a key from a picture, and then using that key at their work(?). Possible, but highly improbable. Like, if a YT streamer showed their house key and their address was public enough, yeah, that’s a risk. Some rando on Lemmy? Not so much
    
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SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sorry sorry, professional interest here. I have to correct you, because I noticed you’re wrong in my field of expertise

Broken key looks like an Assa or possibly a Medico, but I’m not familiar enough with the milling to say for sure. The blade is stamped so thin that I’d have to say it’s probably Assa. The small desk lock key is, I’m 95% sure, a y13 Yale key.

Y11 is a more common small keyway, similar Master’s m1 padlock key, but the milling at the bow of the pictured key isn’t y11. Y1 is the classic Yale house key, comparable in size to Schlage’s SC1. These are, of course, all Ilco key numbers with original manufacturer brand names.

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- exploitedamerican@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My bad. You’re probably correct considering its been 8 years since I’ve cut any keys. But i did have about a decade and a half of key cutting experience. I used to be able to cut 3 keys at a time if the chuck would open wide enough mostly just with the wr-1/kw-1/ar-1 and sc-1 blanks. I don’t miss finding those damn brass shards in my feet after work though
  
  I did clarify in another comment that it did look like an assa key after this comment. Sometimes those little round keys for special cylinder locks and po boxes were the hardest to figure out.
  
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  - SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Sometimes those little round keys for special cylinder locks and po boxes were the hardest to figure out.
    
    Yup! I keep my Ilco bible with me for just that reason. Also, three keys at once? Damn son.
    
    I never had brass splinters in my feet, but I’ve had plenty in my hands
    
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