Absolutely the Best Ever! The Catholic School/ Church that our Church purchased back in Y2K, the Friary that was built in 1962/63, has 32 doors and inside and every one of them is this type A key. The local locksmith, Mr. Hudgins, rekeyed them for us and charged $50 each, plus the cost of the keys. Now I see why they were so expensive! Hope to goodness I don't have to mess with them anymore.

I guess you could call the handheld version of the schlage wafer key cutter the 'original-original lishi cutter' 😂 Thanks, Jason!

Remember those from a Foley Belsaw course,boy am I old!

@stephenzies8867

5 ай бұрын

Yep

I rekeyed one of those for our house door when I was 15 or so and the Kwikset dead bolt , yes it was a two key door. have a great day, i have the keys i made still, and way before KZread/internet, 1975 or so

Worked on many of these back in late 60’s through the early 70’s, I was starting my career back then

Very interesting to watch. Something we will never find over here. But I always enjoy learning about other types of lock designs and what all the internal parts do.

I have multiples of both of those kits. I lucked into a backissue of Locksmith Ledger with an article on the Schlage Wafer system when I was getting my license.

@selock

5 ай бұрын

TNL did a couple too and there is also a pretty good write up in one of those small independent books that LL “licensed” I tried finding it beforehand to recall a bit some of the nuances of these but haven’t found it yet :)

Must be a new one, never seen one that clean. Those original locks are amazing considering every part beyond the springs is stamped and folded.

Thanks for doing this video. I have a handful of these in parts now I will know how to put some back together to create some working locks, cheers

Really informative and super interesting video. Cool seeing some of this old stuff! Also so impressed that you somehow can put that handle inards together with two hands, when you obviously need 3 😂

great use of newer tools for the old stuff!!

What an interesting video. I think I have one of these in the basement - need to have a look.

OMG I love those old locks. Thanks for the video!!!!!

Great video as always Jason. I hope I never encounter one of these in the field but if I do, in will rewatch this with renewed enthusiasm. Thanks for making this 🙏

Thank you fantastic video love the old locks and antique equipment..🐊🌴😎

When removing and replacing a wafer spring, use a pointed probe inside the spring. This keeps the springs until you need them again. Never lost a spring yet.

Oh boy. 😂 been a lot of years since I worked with one of these. I would need to spit my gum out before working on one as you really needed to concentrate to not miss a step. The Corbin unit locks were fun as well. Back to a day when you couldn't buy a rekey kit from a big box store.

That was a lot more involved than I'd expected. 😅

I never worked on one Thanks for another great video Jason

Wonderful video! I still have a couple of these knobs new in the box that I saved for a customer that uses these in a historic building. Those wafer springs are so small and trying to get them in place I think I’ll not attempt to rekey one 😂plus the complete wafer kits are hard to find but I have lishi cut copy’s of those keys. Thanks for sharing!.

Very good video Jason. These locks were very popular when I started locksmithing in the mid 80’s. Too bad they faded away. Thanks for sharing this to all the younger guy and gal locksmiths out there. It’s part of the history of the locksmith industry. Stay safe brother. 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸

The only thing good about that lock is that it taught me to break down the locks and reassemble very fast back in the 80's. Thats the easiest lock to pick. Flat blade screw driver is the master key for all those schlage waffer locks.

Here in NYC we still have a ton of properties with the A keyway, we almost never see W here

Thats an interesting lock.

Thanks Great Video

The one's I've come across are actually the A's not seeing too many W 's, probably 2 and about 6 or so A's

Just saw one of the old key cutters on ebay if anyone is interested.

dont forget to put the grease back...