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    • thickslicedham@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Honest to god, my brother works in locksmithing. I moved states and needed to get a copy of the old house key to my realtor ASAP and did not want to travel or mail it - took a picture for my brother and he was able to make a working key with just the photo.

    • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      It was a picture of a broken key and a new replacement key.

      I am not sure why OP deleted it and all their comments… seemed like a perfectly fine post to me.

  • exploitedamerican@lemm.eeEnglish
    41·
    6 months ago

    Thats not the right keyblank…… the broken one looks like an sc1 or a y-11 and the little one looks like a y-1/m-1 for master locks.

      • exploitedamerican@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Oh so the replacement isnt the little round y-1/m1 blank in the left side of the pic? Ive cut a lot of keys in my day and what makes them work besides the jagged pattern the pins fall into which allows the lock cylinder to turn are tbe pattern of groces along the horizontal shaft of the key. Sometimes other blanks will work if the slots are not to specific and the key slots are just vague/thin enough to fit into the cylinder but these 2 key blanks have very different slotting configurations

        • exploitedamerican@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Looks like one of those assa a-xx high security commercial keys with extra slots, some of them even have stepped slots for additional pins in the cylinder.

          I guess you could copy a key from a picture but it would be a real pain.