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How to Rekey a Lock to Match an Existing Key

Jump to: Determine if the Lock can be Rekeyed to Your Existing Key Key compatible lock brands Several Rekeying Options How to Rekey a Lock Yourself Determine if Locks Can Use the Same Key Say you’ve bought a home, but there are one or two locks in the home that Read More

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How to Lock Chain Link Fence Gates

The Issues Locking Chain Link Gates Chain link fences can be the most difficult to lock. A standard welder cannot weld to the galvanized metal used in chain link fences, so using lock boxes, that deadbolts or keyless locks can mount to, are out. The gates have wide gaps so Read More

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Keyless Gate Locks – Solutions & Considerations

There are various reason you’d want to use a keyless gate lock on your gates. But what are your options? How do the gates need to be changed to support a keyless solution? Let’s discuss. Keyless gate locks are more convenient to use than a keyed lock. You enter a Read More

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How to Open a Safe Without a Key

How to Unlock a Safe Without the Key or Combination Safes are suppose to protect property, right? The sad news is that many of the inexpensive safes bought at big box stores or major online shopping sites offer very little protection, if any at all. This allows you to be Read More

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How to Become a Locksmith

Everything to Know to Be a Locksmith Are you interested in starting a locksmith career? You may be wondering: What skills are required, how much do locksmiths make, what training is needed? Just how do you become a locksmith? As the owner of a locksmith company, I wrote this article Read More

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How to Get a Replacement Safe Key Made

Tubular Safe Key Made Some manufactures, typically inexpensive safe manufacturers, provide keys as either the main method of opening the safe or as a secondary method to get into the safe. A keyed lock is less expensive than dials or electronic locks, so they are used often in less expensive Read More

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How to Cover Door Holes

Using a Door Wrap to Cover a Door Hole How to Cover a Door Hole What do you do when you have a door that has a hole pattern for a previous lockset, but the new lockset holes don’t line up? That is, the old hole and the new hole Read More

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Are All RV Keys the Same?

CH751 RV Compartment Key Your RV Locks Can be Opened by the Same Key One key will open the compartments of nearly all RVs, the CH751 key. The CH751 keys is a universal key. If your RV compartments use this key, the keys and locks in your RV are the Read More

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How Do Locksmiths Replace Lost Keys?

How Do Locksmiths Replace Keys for Locks that Have No Working Key? You’ve lost that last key to one of your locks or cars. How will your local locksmith make a duplicate key without the original? First, a bit of terminology. When there is no key available, we won’t be Read More

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Why Does My Schlage Electronic Lock Unlock When I Press the Schlage Button?

The Schlage BE365 electronic deadbolt is a great, affordable basic electronic deadbolt. We’ve sold and installed a lot of them over the years. It’s so affordable now, that many people are buying and installing it themselves. However, they often seem to get the installation wrong because the most important Read More

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