Friday, August 29, 2008

Change your locks, Locksmith Humor? (Re-key)

Phone: (702) 649-3833 or (702) 205-0477

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Lock Doctor serves the following areas:
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Change your Locks.
We all have at one time or another lost a key and can't find it. Where did it go and will I find it? Will someone else find it before I do? What if they find it and help themselves to my possessions and I come home to find an empty house, or get up in the morning to go to work and find my car gone. Normally you could call the local locksmith and they can come out and re-key (change your lock).
Re-keying (changing your locks) involves the locksmith coming to your house, or you the handyman that you are removing the locks from your doors and going to the locksmith shop to have your locks changed (re-keyed). Once the locksmith has your lock in his hand the next step is to take the lock apart and change the lock tumblers to a new key (re-key) your lock so the old key no longer works. This saves you having to buy new locks and change a very small part called the lock tumblers or pins.
Now after paying the locksmith it's back to your house to put the re-keyed (changed) lock back on the doors and the job is finished. As simple as that, right? But wait a minute, why does the part in the door that the lock goes into look so much different than when you took it apart? Or maybe once it's back on the door, the lock works weird. It looks fine but when you put the key into the lock to lock the door, you turn it the right way to throw the bolt out (dead bolt lock), but when you turn the key back to take the key out the bolt goes back. That's not how it's supposed to work.
Call the locksmith back and accuse him of putting your lock back together wrong and he explains to you that it's just a matter of timing. Timing? Isn't that what the mechanic does to your car when you get it tuned up? No it's putting the lock back with the tailpiece in the wrong position. Tailpiece, this is getting pretty technical, maybe I should pay the trip fee for the locksmith to come to my house and put this mess back together.
Locksmith arrives, surveys the situation, and three minutes later he's on his way back to his shop with your fifty bucks. Now the job is done and you are feeling much better about that lost key. Wait a minute, what's that thing the little neighbor kid is scratching on the side of your house? What do you know it's the lost key. Oh well!

thanx, Ed

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