The following video offers instructions for copying a key using only some scissors and an aluminum can. I wonder if it really works. I would think that the aluminum would bend when you try to turn the "key."
So if anyone cares to try it out, the rest of us would be grateful
(I highly recommend wearing some sort of safety gloves. I've cut myself doing stuff like this, and it ain't fun.)
OOO. I'll try it! I'll try it! LOL.
ReplyDeleteWe just had a key mystery.. My dad got a key copied, but the copies don't work. They fit, but they don't turn. We all tried everything, they match!
Good luck, spring.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, Kirsten. Wouldn't it just bend while your trying to turn it? Still... I'll have to try that!
That looks awesome!
ReplyDeletePerhaps if you had a couple pieces of aluminum to glue together (so you'd have a thicker piece of metal) it'd be stiffer.
ReplyDeletelol, i love the house!
ReplyDeleteSpring: That same thing has happened to me... it turns out that just a tiny tiny tiny notch was a little longer than the other key which made it get stuck on on a part of the lock therefore making it so you could put it in the lock because it was similar, but not turn it because it wasn't exact
ReplyDeleteI will try to make a key copy also!!!!
;D
Omg, I've gotta try this.
ReplyDeleteOkay, Iam definitly going to try this! I had a key that wasnt a copy it came with the lock but it wouldnt turn. I didnt know this though untill I had to walk home from school and no one was home to unlock it!
ReplyDeleteThis would be cool to try, but I highly doubt it could do anything. I wonder what my little brother will do with a key of that sort...
ReplyDeleteI'll try right know, although i'm gonna have to find a can!
ReplyDeletewon't the key break after turning it?
ReplyDeleteMaybe there's another, secret step that makes the
ReplyDeletealuminum stiff.
I've gotta try this. I'm not very good with scissors though, so I'd probably either cut myself or mess it up.
ReplyDeleteOMG, I was just in New York and I saw the marble cemetery!!!
It shouldn't bend because the force would be distibuted evenly throughout the key, so it would have the same concept as laying on a bed of nails. It would apply pressure, but no damage should happen. At least that is my guess. whether its thick enough to properly jiggle the triggers is another story...
ReplyDelete"Jiggle the triggers..."
ReplyDeletexD That's probably some sort of over-my-head technical term, but it's fun to say.
hey, sorry I haven't logged on in forever!
ReplyDeletecool post :)
that house is beast
ugh i've done that before. i was really bored during a movie and started ripping up my coke can. totally shredded my fingers. sounds interesting though.
ReplyDeleteOh I'm gonna try that now! [when my mom's not watching *D]
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna try this one :)
ReplyDeleteI've actually opened a combination lock using a coke can though. Wrecks your fingers, but it WORKS!(after lots of practice)
I just recently took the old fashioned lock off my door (my parents, of course, know nothing) and completely took it apart. It had never worked, so I figured out how it's supposed to work. It turns out that the lock is just crap though. :P
ReplyDeleteBTW, Love the house!
ReplyDeleteHey, I've got a q: how do you use a credit card to unlock a door? I've heard you wiggle it in the doorjamb, but can anyone be more precise?
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