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Summary: Trying to rekey a lock? Learn how to use mortise cylinders in this free home security from a professional locksmith.
"On behalf of expertvilalge.com, I am Jim Koch and today we are talking about mortise cylinder. Mortise cylinder is a lock that you are going to find in a commercial application generally. Occasionally you will find these in some of the higher end residential locks, some of the real fancy big handles and that. Mortise cylinders has a lot of advantages. It takes a standard key just like a normal lock. The beauty of this is that it is designed to be rekeyed over and over again which is pretty common when businesses change managers, change ownership, you want to change the locks. Mortise cylinders are a real simple system. It is just the lock in itself and it goes in to whatever type of latching system the businesses has chosen or the manufacturer or the contractor but yeah you just basically take two screws out of the back, pull two tail pieces off, this plug comes out, rekey it and put it together. These are my favorite key or locks to work on because they are simple, they are quick and they always work the same. No matter what brand you have they are all a very similar system of dismantling and reassembling it and they are good solid strong locks, hard to defeat for a burglar to break into. "
eHow Article: How to Rekey Mortise Cylinder Locks
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valentino3 said
on 8/2/2008 This video was useless in telling "how" to rekey it. Saying "It's real easy to rekey" does nothing to instruct. I'm really disappointed because I needed specific information.
securityman666 said
on 8/2/2008 Jim is NOT a locksmith! The information he is shoveling out is not worth --. I challenge him to any subject regarding locksmithing, safes, CCTV, alarms or automotive security. Come on Jim, take me up on my challenge and show you how fake you are!