I mostly just come here for the cool dog footage. Sometimes while I'm here i learn stuff.

Name of this channel should be Moe knows everything! You never cease to amaze me lol!

You always make the most useful videos at the most needed times lol! Thanks for continuing to make awesome content over the many years. KZfaq needs more creators like you.

A good reason why we should always keep a new key for every lock in a box and label each key so we know what it goes to. That way we can always have another key made easily. A neighbor had trouble with a front door lock. I took it off and they took it to a locksmith who changed the tumblers to fit the keys. Think it was in the $12 -14 range. Still good to know your method, it might very well be useful sometime,

Almost every time there’s a dog involved they steel the show😎 great information. Saludos from Mexico

Best diy channel on the tube! You rock Moe!

That's a great skill to have tucked up your sleeve 👍 Glad to see Ginger has plenty of toys and is having fun with them 🐶

Had to watch this one again

¡¡¡Biff Tannen is FURIOUS at this one weird key hack!!!!

Solder to fix up a key. I would have never thought of that!

My lone superpower is picking locks, but if you only have one it's a pretty cool one to have. I lost my house keys like a year ago and never even bothered to dig out my spares. When someone observes, it blows their minds (although in reality, only the swiftness requires skill. Any lock from Home Depot could be picked by any 6 year old within 5 minutes with instruction)

Former Locksmith here. I have made a ton of keys with code clippers, code cutting machines, and hand filing using a micrometer and depth & spacing specs. I never made one with a soldering iron but, it really has me thinking this would be a viable means for impressioning a lock. I always preferred a key clipper and file for this job. Give Ginger a hug for me.

Interesting, good to know

You have more patience than me I am getting out my Master Key aka 3 foot bolt cutter🤓 🔒🔑🔐

I hope you realise that you have the best no nonsense channel on KZfaq, do you? Atleast to me it is.

Hey Moe. I thought maybe you kept your good booze locked in that box but I didn't know it was something more important like Gingers toys. Thanks for posting.

Wow man just in time, I was about break the lock and buy a new one, thanks

O M G !!! I haven't seen a Datsun key since 1980 when I traded my 1972 Datsun extra cab pickup for a 1974 Plymouth Duster...

Great Video,as always. Thanks.

Great video,everyone has run into this problem before. Great fix.

nice, I have a door lock on my 75 Dodge van doing that when it used to work, but it works in the passenger door

Many times, the key will have a row of numbers on it. This represents the bidding on the key, which you can use to directly measure the height of your gullies with a pair of calipers or just make a new key from scratch by marking it out on a blank.

Another cool SFF hack! Harris Stay Brite 8 Tin solder with 6% silver content is more abrasion resistant than most older common tin/lead solders and will provide a longer lasting result. It generally wets in better with an acid flux like Harris Stay Clean - however, because it is an acid flux (small percent of hydrochloric acid), you need to wash and neutralize the soldered part before use. I use this combo all the time for various assemblies and repairs where silver solder or TIG brazing is not required or not desired due to heat affects.

Worked good. I had my doubts about the solder bonding but it held up good. I always have spares to all my locks and when I use a spare I replace it with another. My issue is I don’t label them🤨

Hi Moe , A Another Great Video . Very Useful Thanks. Well Done 👍.

Previously I have just bought key blanks online for 2 bucks, put the both in the vise, lifted the old one up a hair and cut the shape onto the new key with a coping saw and files.

Always a great day when sixtyfiveford puts out a video .

*_The Lock Picking Lawyer has entered the chat._* LOL

Another great video thanks for sharing again 👍🤝

Nice repair. Stay well, Joe Z

Cool .

BOLT CUTTERS AND A NEW LOCK IS THE WAY WE DO IT. GOT TO GET US ONE OF THOSE OLD FASHION KEY MAKING MACHINES ON EBAY. I GUESS.

Nice job with the key, but we need a little more Ginger. 👍

Me being a locksmith we would just mic the old key and figure out the original bitting (depth) and cut it by code. IRL however this doesn't always work either. Worn key also mean worn pins. Now you have made a factory spec key to a worn lock which I have seen too many times will not work either. Sometimes the lock also has to be rekeyed. Old school guys like me used to do what's called impressioning. We would file a key by hand to fit the worn out lock. That is a very lost skill. Once the filed down key works you copy that onto a new blank and you have a good working key basically custom fit for that lock. I only do automotive now with programmers and CNC key machines. Very different skill set and a lot more in expenses but also profit. I feel bad for my customers who lose their keys but I tell them I didn't make the car or expensive transponder fobs/keys and I didn't lose your keys. For all you people with older cars with one key get a duplicate made while it's much cheaper. If you have push to start the price is not really going to be cheaper as we still have to go through the same process. A blade key will be cheaper since we don't have to pull a lock or pay for a key code. It still has to be programmed though.

Nice

👍👍👍Thanks

Gret vid 65....think about how many times I would have done that for sure......thsnkd

When I first start having troubles I get a new copy made right off. This is way out of my job description. And Ginger must be taking night courses. BLESSINGS!

When I get a new lock, I always have at least 1-3 key copies made, and one of the unused originals put in a safe place and labeled. One thing that will greatly extend the life of your lock is to lube it about every 3 months. Here it rains a lot and so I often do it every 1-2 months. Wash our the lock with new lube (Removes dust) like Break Free and soak it good. My locks have lasted almost 20 years now, with daily use. Also lubing the lock often helps keeps out water and ice from clogging the keyway. If you need the lock repinned due to worn out pins, take the new key copy with you. Generally I destroy the old keys (as they wear out ) when I repin a lock.

Another genius idea! I wonder if brazing instead of soldering would create a permanent fix? Maybe for some oddball key that is hard to find a suitable blank for.

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What he neglected to tell yall is that the pins make marks on the soft solder and become the guides to where one needs to file and filing in small increments works whereas taking huge chunks out usually negates the solder build up... a tiny bit will do ya eve if ya hafta repeat 2or 7 times... Once perfected go have a new key cut.. easy peasey..

I file solder for other reasons all the time. We should tell everyone to be mindful of the dust, especially if they have pets, since most solder is made with lead.

MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼………………………..Dude, is there ANYTHING you can’t do!!!

Wow! You have a key cutter?! I always had to cut my new rekeys by hand with my Dremel. One pin at a time until, pin by pin, the lock worked smoothly. I bought a new canopy lock for my F150 because one was damaged. I just grabbed a new lock since I planned on keying it to match anyway ( uh, um, practice? ). As I was wanting to match the lock to my key, I inserted the key and ( much to my consternation ) turned the key. So I rekeyed both locks, but just one pin. That way I could keep my old key. I later found out they're all keyed the same.

a blank, a file, the original, and the lock. Nothing more is needed. what you teach is patience.

Wondering what you could make with an old blender? I have a really nice Kitchenaid blender.

Very nice. Where did you get all those key blanks? And the oldschool key cutting machine?

Key to a dogs hart. 👍🐝🌞

Great video!! Where did you get the key cutting machine?

hey i got a tip for ya. before you use acid flux, replace that terrible 'tip' on that soldering gun with a 10AWG or 12AWG wire in a U shape. really fast heatup. and someone else wont ruin their tip.

Have that set someplace wasnt to good at that Lol

Of course you'd have your own key cutting machine 🤣

could you just build up or shim the back side (feeler gauge maybe) , clamp it in key cutter and make one that works ? also , the ignition key falls on the floor while i'm driving my 73 f100 . is it the peaks that are supposed to prevent this ?

LMAO can't believe you have a key machine. Actually totally believable

Key - osk i see what you did there

I have cut 1000s of keys on that machine $5 each for someone else a couple decades ago

Datsun....there's a name I haven't heard in a while.

What if the key isn't brass? Or are they all made of brass

THE SOLDER IS MOSTLY LEAD!! THIS WILL WEAR FAST AND FOWL THE LOCK TOO.

I'm just here to see Ginger...

We charge 25$ at my shop to cut you a new original on our computerized machine.

Jiggle jiggle jiggle, what is the special tool? Ingenuity?😉🤨

While you were at Home Depot just buy a new lock and it has two new keys.

Lol EASY! Buy a key grinder.....

Hey man, could you do a video on old stuck truck locks (like 2000 era) and all that goes along with it? I used to have graphite powder on stand by and it always did the trick after winter but they don't make the powder anymore, just the glittery crap 🙄 Any tricks up your sleeve for that topic?

Jay the Florida pool pump motor repair guy. When Service Calls Longwood approved ! that was good info 2 see & know👨‍🔧good job !! sixtyfiveford 🤏