home.social

#paclock — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #paclock, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Chirael (Anthony) :donor: :ferdiverified: 🇺🇦 :rainbow_flag: @[email protected] ·

    A cool patch and a bit of inside baseball from @PACLOCK_PREZ on Reddit reddit.com/r/lockpicking/comme #lockpicking #locksport #paclock

    #lockpicking #locksport #paclock
  2. Chirael (Anthony) :donor: :ferdiverified: 🇺🇦 :rainbow_flag: @[email protected] ·

    @lfisk I found some UCS padlocks on Amazon and am going to order one along with a UCS pinning kit. Is interesting that it uses the P0 keyway which is compatible with / same as AM7, but UCS only has 6 depths. That was apparently deliberate as PAC_PREZ wrote on reddit.com/r/lockpicking/comme

    ”The big reason behind the change in pin heights vs. standard was to get away from a two-bit changeout to insure non-interchange. With typical Master/American/PACLOCK if you want guaranteed non-interchange, then you need to change out two bits. If you do that, then your 8-pin system turns into a 4-pin system (because if you used a #2 in a chamber, then you can't use a #1 or a #3 for your next key code, it needs to be a #4).

    We did the math and engineering to see that if we increased the pin height delta but just a bit, then we could guarantee non-key interchange even on a single bit changeout. BUT, we'd lose 2 pins in the process.

    Losing 2 pins, though, is way better than losing 4 pins like in the typical Master/American/PACLOCK scenario! So now with the UCS system, we can use all 6 pins with a single bit changeout. That's A LOT more key codes than what you get from the same number of chambers but only 4 pins.”

    (Interchange is apparently when you have a master key system but a key works which was not intended/supposed to work; also called incidental or ghost keys.)

    #locks #paclock #locksmith #locksport

    #locks #paclock #locksmith #locksport
  3. Chirael (Anthony) :donor: :ferdiverified: 🇺🇦 :rainbow_flag: @[email protected] ·

    @lfisk also I found a list of common unrestricted Paclock keys (P0 for cylinder locks, Standard Rekeyable, and UCS; PR1 for Pro series; and M for disc locks) here: amazon.com/stores/page/D6682A4 - I’ll try to update Lockwiki with this info later. #locks #paclock #locksmith #locksport

    #locks #paclock #locksmith #locksport
  4. Chirael (Anthony) :donor: :ferdiverified: 🇺🇦 :rainbow_flag: @[email protected] ·

    Hey @lfisk I added a "Keys and Cylinders" section to the PACLOCK page on Lockwiki, containing a lot of the links we've discussed over the past couple of days. lockwiki.com/index.php/PACLOCK #locks #padlocks #locksport #locksmith #paclock

    #locks #padlocks #locksport #locksmith #paclock
  5. Chirael (Anthony) :donor: :ferdiverified: 🇺🇦 :rainbow_flag: @[email protected] ·

    A Paclock repinning kit, apparently without any kind of pin measurements chart 😢 amazon.com/dp/B08GY6K16T/ #locks #paclock #locksmith #locksport

    #locks #paclock #locksmith #locksport
  6. Chirael (Anthony) :donor: :ferdiverified: 🇺🇦 :rainbow_flag: @[email protected] ·

    This Reddit post about Paclock #padlock pin measurements has some good info and one of the comments has a link to a good Google sheet spreadsheet on Paclock and many other brands of #locks - reddit.com/r/lockpicking/comme #locksmith #locksport #paclock

    #padlock #locks #locksmith #locksport #paclock