Thread: My Lifes Calling

Great choice of job. I did a correspondence course in locksmithing around 15 years ago and also paid for 2 of my employees at the time to do the same. We needed to be able to change locks (rekey) to government owned houses quickly and no locksmith would provide that service at a reasonable cost so we did it ourselves. If I had to choose a trade to do again I would definitely choose to be a locksmith as it is a very interesting craft.

Ian

fully qualified locksmiths dont get paid that well though, something to keep in mind, thats wages though and i also have a mate who got out of it and into the excavators with me as there was more money workin for wages in a digger than there was having his own buisness as a lockie

While we are on about locks, I paid $100 for a locksmith to de-burr A D1 ign lock. I thought I might do it myself next time. Is there much involved?
Michael

Cutting keys is like turning on a tap to a plumber? easy peasy, had a cutter when I worked at Yallourn power station, could train a monkey to use it.......not even a smart one, I worked it out

Gotta start somewhere again, I enoy the work so why the hell not, more to life then money, though it helps.

Regarding deburring locks, from my years in the wrecking yards and having fitted and removed thousands of ignitons and door locks and what not, locks and keys wear, its unavoidable, a lock is a sealed unit so as the key and internals wear from use all that fine brass ends up inside the lock , so your lock gets sticky, what does Mr Brightspark do? he gives the barrel a squirt with some CRC, locks works good for a day or two then disaster the whole thing jambs up, the filings are unsettled by the CRC which sends it everywhere, only two things should go in a lock, one is the key the other is graphite powder. 100 bux to have a lock sorted is not bad, the ign on our AU was three times that much to have replaced after some idiot tried to start it with a screw driver