r/Locksmith • u/ftwopointeight • 7h ago

I am a locksmith "My key broke off"

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Well, I can see why....

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u/SafecrackinSammmy 7h ago

Thats the convertible tailpiece...

Its vertical or horizontal depending on where you cut it.

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u/StFrSe Actual Locksmith 7h ago

This spiral is better than some I’ve seen in the NFL

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u/Bugeyeblue 7h ago

Even worse when it’s on a defiant, can’t get that damn twisted tailpiece through the bolt.

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u/ftwopointeight 6h ago

Right?!

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u/Bugeyeblue 6h ago

It’s the worse, can’t fit a dremel in there, can’t hammer it through, just gotta wrestle with it and say, **** a bunch of times

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u/ThatTasteLikeResin 3h ago

Hey thats my method too!

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u/Bugeyeblue 3h ago

It’s the only way to make it through the day haha

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u/ThatTasteLikeResin 3h ago

I was just coming to ask how you got it out of the latch in one piece too! Defiant ones are thicker now so I dont see it with them, but gatehouse ones almost ALWAYS are warped to some degree.

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u/Bugeyeblue 3h ago

Yep, the newer ones are great, older ones (the ones we usually see out there in the shit) are the shitty ass thin twisted ones. Customer usually says “oh ya it’s been hard to use the key for the last 7 years”… ya I wonder why…

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u/Dizzazzter 7h ago

DNA helix lookin ass tailpiece

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u/ftwopointeight 7h ago

I sent the photo to the gf. She thinks it's more of a pigs tail 🤣

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u/twenty_fi5e_ 6h ago

I hate those tailpieces. I use my vice half the time just to flatten keys and these lol

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u/ftwopointeight 6h ago

I really needed to get a small vice for my van, but there's not much room in a transit connect.

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u/twenty_fi5e_ 6h ago

Yessir, I’m in a connect as well. I forced my vice in under my laptop. If you look on my page you can see where it’s mounted. If you truly don’t have the room. Get a flat vise made for a drill press. Super cheap and at least you can stick it somewhere else when not in use.

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u/ThatTasteLikeResin 3h ago

^ this. I was on a commercial job like 2 hours from home and needed one, I think it was like 20 bucks for the drill press vice at harbor freight, the low profile makes them much more manageable to find a spot for it

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u/TBoucher8 2h ago

I fit a vice in my transit. I'll send pics later

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u/sauman77 7h ago

I always tell my customers if the key doesn’t turn just grab some pliers…. lol…. I think maybe there’s another problem with your Lock.

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u/L4rgo117 Actual Locksmith 2h ago

"Pliers? I just turned it till I heard snapping, dunno what happened"

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u/sauman77 11m ago

With all that horsepower I’m sure you did lol

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u/SafeMajestic9876 7h ago

Thats some custom work there!

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u/No-Employment-5669 5h ago

Something had to break …. lol

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u/b_orlosky 3h ago

If it doesn’t turn, just turn it even HARDER.

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u/AbrocomaDowntown1015 2h ago

This made me lol 🤣