On Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 at 19:30, Doc Shipley via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> You need precise (to your spec of precise - I don't know how much "slop" > is too much for a key) measurements of the overall thickness and width, > length, and the depth and width of each groove. I'm not a machinist (definitely not with your experience) so I don't know. To be honest, just as "open is open," "it fits is it fits," and if that involved a little work with some rattail files to make sure the blank fit, that's fine by me. Your mileage may vary, etc. > I'm inferring that you're not certain whether one key performs all > functions or several keys with different groove patterns will be needed. My thinking was the former - one key cut for five pin stacks, but only four would be used by a given position. > I have the software and the machinery needed to do this, and if I were > on your side of the water I'd love to be involved, at no cost. It's a > really interesting task. I don't know where the unit is, and I'm in the States. If you'd be on the west coast at some point I'd love to geek out over metalworking and lock parts over coffee some time. The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Get thee down. Be thou funky.
