Saturday, June 11, 2011

Tools and Equipment for Locksmiths

By Fiona Clarkson


Locksmiths have to put several thousands of dollars into their equipment and gear investment. They may start out in the hundreds, but the price will grow as the company grows. If a locksmith is thinking about specializing in a number of areas, you will find different equipment for every area.

Apart from the normal tools of the trade, such as key blanks and a key making device, a locksmith should break down the kinds of key blanks into different categories and buy other products to go along with these. Key blanks come as at least six different types of residential blanks (from $5 to over $50), 10 manufacturers of industrial key blanks, and automotive key blanks for domestic and foreign autos.

How is the locksmith to keep up with all the different keys? He/she should buy key tags, drawers, and key towers (tower only with no blanks, $500). These keys will need key cutters. You will find at least 6 different kinds of cutters. A manual duplicator costs $400-$600. A semi-automatic duplicator costs $655-$1600. An automatic duplicator costs $800-$1300. A tubular key duplicator costs $400-$1200. Code cutters cost $1900-$3100. Then there are your cutter wheels which cost in the range of $33-$340.

A locksmith should purchase pins, pinning kits, picks, choose sets, tension wrenches, and many various locks. There are hospital locks, authorities locks, gate locks, digital hardware, furnishings locks, biometric fingerprint locks, and electromagnetic locks ($200-$700).

Every locksmith who has trained with a distance school will know about Kwikset locks and IICO key making devices. These are standard equipment for locksmiths-in-training. There are academies that educate programs on a course-by-course foundation to further educate the craftsmen.

There are also transponder keys that need a code machine to code the important thing for the autos to function in the ignition. More recent model autos with added security techniques use electromagnetic fields of energy that are sent to a pc in the automobile. (This is an example of technology and computers sneaking into yet another area of our lives.) Coding keys in this method is a method to improve security for the car owner as well as reduce expenses for the insurance companies.

You will find older autos nonetheless in operation that need the easy use of the Slim Jim device, so a locksmith should keep older equipment around also. Apart from accommodating individuals who can't afford the more recent, more sophisticated vehicles, there are collectors of antiques who won't want their cars damaged. So, the locksmith should know how to open the vehicles in a way that causes the least amount of forced entry. Even people who do not own expensive cars are happy with what they own and won't appreciate damage.

As is apparent, there is much for a professional locksmith to find out. A lot of it can be retained by repetition. There are lots of locks that use the same tools and methods to unlock. But for the loads of info that cannot be retained, the locksmith should rely on paper tools. These exist in the manuals and written info that must be kept for reference purposes.






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