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Originally Posted by Zeke
You don't want to take a lock apart w/o the key in it. I know, I do locks. However, you can make a raking tool in 2 minutes with a file, angle grinder, or bench grinder. Tons of YT's ion the subject.
One guy suggests looking to see if the key is seating all the way. If not, he taps it in with a mallet while moving it around. That should dislodge anything that has gotten out of place.
While we're on the subject of lock picking, a YT'r named the "Lock Picking Lawyer" is really damn good. Watch him for awhile and you'll be buying much, much better locks.
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Thanks. I have a close friend who is a locksmith, in fact he is a safe cracker and the best there is on this side of the country. He was a criminal in another lifetime and now he opens safes for the LAPD, FBI and every other LE agency in town. I brought my deadbolt for my front door to him before I installed it so that he could install special pins in the tumbler for me, (school pins?), he was surprised that they were already there. It's a Schlage, I think. Still pick-able, (they all are), but not easily.
The thing w the ignition key is the strangest thing...it has always gone in like butter and suddenly the key won't go in. No warnings from it being sticky, nothing. And thank god it didn't happen on the cross-country road trip in cold weather.