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H3-40 (Ace)
Registered Member Username: Ace
Post Number: 1166 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 75.202.175.201
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 6:15 pm: | |
and hope this one doesn't get as carried away as the, ahem last one, but anyway... Had an incident this morning where I HAD to break BACK into my home by damaging the door locks on our french doors leading to the master BR. Fixed it temporarily and went to went work. On the way home, I stopped at out local HD and picked up TWO new lock sets. BOTH packaged individually and BOTH on separate shelves. I couldn't find a matching pair in ONE package so I opted to go the route of two singles. I get home and proceeded to install them and after it was said and done with no problems, I tried the KEYS (2 for each) and what I found out to my surprise was that BOTH sets are keyed the same meaning that all 4 of the keys work in either lock. I find that a little strange. I looked all over the packaging on both sets to see if it mentioned that ALL lock sets were matched but nowhere to be found. Is this normal or what? |
les marston (Les_marston)
Registered Member Username: Les_marston
Post Number: 255 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 68.151.225.213
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 6:25 pm: | |
Only so many combinations of pins possible so it is not impossible to get two locks with the same key. This is why we went to the electronic locks. It lets you set more than one code so set a master code only known to family and use the other for guests then change it between guests. No lost keys and if the code is lost just set a new one Now wasn't that better? |
Dal Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas
Post Number: 328 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 72.172.39.50
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 6:35 pm: | |
About 10 years ago we went to the Menard's where we lived, (It's another box store), and bought 10 "American" brand padlocks. I've always detested carrying a bunch of different keys so I spent about 15-20 minutes matching up the keys inside the packages, just by looking. They were very high quality locks and we still have all of them and all are keyed exactly the same. The best part was that they were on clearance and we got them for 50% off the marked price which was 75% off the original price. I think we had a total of about $6 in those padlocks. |
George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse
Post Number: 318 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 65.2.78.109
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 9:34 pm: | |
Ace what happened with the locks is what metaphysics would call reality creation. |
Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids
Post Number: 401 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 72.211.128.245
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 9:56 pm: | |
In order to not lower Ace's estimation of my high quality of humor, I'll just leave the following....... . . . . . . . . . . . . |
David Evans (Dmd)
Registered Member Username: Dmd
Post Number: 552 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 66.33.248.192
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 10:35 pm: | |
nobodys bullied Fallas Darnworth on that avatar.... |
niles steckbauer (Niles500)
Registered Member Username: Niles500
Post Number: 981 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 173.78.39.41
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 2:09 am: | |
Woohooo ... for a second there I thought you said "broke back" instead of "break back" .... just think what kind of chatter that would have brought |
George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse
Post Number: 320 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 72.144.61.124
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 7:22 am: | |
Dallas you can demand excellence all you want but as long as were wearing the meatsuits provided by the OEM to play on this plane it ain't going to happen. be happy with close enough, or look into your dogs eyes, or create more recipes for penguin meat. |
Dal Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas
Post Number: 330 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 72.172.39.50
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 7:51 am: | |
George, Read the shirt very carefully, Bwahahahaha! |
George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse
Post Number: 324 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 72.144.61.124
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 8:02 am: | |
Dallas as a VERY NEWLY APPOINTED member of the OLD FARTS CLUB I have the crap vision required for admission. WHAT AM I NOT SEEING. |
L James Jones Jr (Jamo)
Registered Member Username: Jamo
Post Number: 174 Registered: 11-2007 Posted From: 74.71.202.72
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 8:12 am: | |
You can have any of the higher quality locksets re-keyed. Have them keyed to a new key, or have a bunch (same brand) keyed alike. Most small lumber yards have the "box" of tumbler pins to rekey for you. Takes about 2 minutes each. Any "keyed alike" locksets I have bought for jobs were always within the same packaging, although I have seen keyed alike sets taped together. |
Dal Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas
Post Number: 331 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 72.172.39.50
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 8:20 am: | |
George .... If I told you it would spoil the fun of the shirt. |
George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse
Post Number: 327 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 72.144.61.124
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 8:31 am: | |
I will see it very soon in person. |
Jim Sanders (Sandy)
Registered Member Username: Sandy
Post Number: 14 Registered: 1-2011 Posted From: 69.199.96.250
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 8:52 am: | |
Now lets not talk about the OLDFARTSCLUB since i am acting president Jim |
Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids
Post Number: 403 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 72.211.128.245
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 5:19 pm: | |
Looks like no one is paying attention to your HOPE than this thread wouldn't be run off the rails eh Ace? See what happens when you have expectations! ..and that's all I have to say at the moment..... |
George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse
Post Number: 341 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 72.144.61.124
Rating: Votes: 1 (Vote!) | Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - 8:44 pm: | |
DALLAS demand EXCELENCE. I swear I'm not the most observant for sure. GREAT SHIRT. |
George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse
Post Number: 342 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 72.144.61.124
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - 8:49 pm: | |
Fidds My estimation of your quality of humor is growing. It will be a shame to ..well theres no need to keep on mentioning it. |
Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
Registered Member Username: Buswarrior
Post Number: 1987 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 174.89.178.15
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2011 - 9:50 pm: | |
With the demise of the local family owned hardware store... Used to be you could order a whole box of padlocks keyed alike, in whatever size you wanted. Darned clerk at the box store asked if the car had air conditioning... automatic reaction from his old job at the car parts store... down the tubes we go. Yes, Jack F is my mentor. happy coaching! buswarrior |