5LOCK MAINTENANCE FOR LOCKSPORTERS
Although locksporters have a good understanding of how locks work, there’s a big difference between what we do and what locksmiths do. Locksmiths need to worry about properly installing lock hardware, repairing broken mechanisms, calculating master-key systems, duplicating keys, assisting during lockouts, and maintaining locks.
We should leave locksmithing to the professionals. However, certain aspects of lock maintenance are valuable for locksporters to know, such as disassembling locks to better understand their mechanics, repinning locks to make them easier or harder to pick, reassembling locks after they ...
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