[44] DIY How To Easily Rekey Your Door Without A Key

How To Rekey Your Door Locks Without a Key

This video goes over how to decode your door lock and how to make an original key to the door and also how to rekey your door to a new lock. If you already have the correct key and want to simply rekey your lock you can skip the shimming step and move on to how to remove the cylinder.

Rekeying your door locks can seem difficult but with a little bit of practice it can be surprisingly easy and cost effective. Being able to do it your self will save you a lot of time and money. Everyone needs to change their locks from time to time and hopefully this will give you the courage to try it yourself.

Standard Pin and Tumbler Locks are more reliable than the new Smart Key locks. With those your are sacrificing reliability and security for convince. With these easy steps you will have the confidence to change the locks on your own home yourself.

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[usernamemykel]

EXACTLY what I needed!!!! I have a Kwikset lock, key missing, and I have a cut Kwikset key for some unknown lock.

Although, as a "lark" on a "whim", with a touch of mechanical curiosity, I took the locksmithing course at the National School of Locksmithing and Alarms, since defunct, then received my NYC Locksmith and Keymaker license, way back in 1983, but I never went into the locksmithing business. My fantastic instructor was Don O'Shall, who wrote many locksmithing manuals, but passed away in 2018.

[Thuebner]

Man, I've been working with locks practically my entire life. I taught myself how different locks worked, and how to pick them, by disassembling and reassembling them, all pre-internet before this information was just available for anyone. You either had to figure it out yourself or apprentice under a locksmith to learn it. I've probably learned 95% of what I know just from my own trial and error and the remaining 5% from the internet. So, it's a relatively rare occurrence that I come across a tip or suggestion I've never seen before. Maybe I just don't research it enough to come across good tips more often. But using separated corrugated cardboard as a quick pinning tray and using a strip from a security tag as a shim are both brilliantly simple ideas. In retrospect, it was so obvious, too. I made my first pinning tray from soda box cardboard. I cut out and folded a tray, then accordion folded another piece of cardboard to sit down in the tray. I basically just made corrugated cardboard.

[racmrc]

Great video. Had this problem - no key - and though this shim procedure was not easy at all, it worked. I used a strip cut from an aluminum can as the shim. Thanks so much.

[hamidsdna]

Very professional, not only the instruction, but also presentation, filming, edit, everything was perfect. Thank you.

[bbtel]

Your presentations provide excellent insight for new “Locksporters”. Thank you. I only wish I could remember to steer clear of the disastrous (sometimes) 180!

[derfstang]

Awesome tutorial. Thank you! Iself taught how to rekey door locks with existing keys. My current situation is I just bought a house that has electronic pin code type locks and a key way. Previous owners lost all physical keys and just relied on the pin codes.

Nope, not for me. I didn’t know they lost all the keys until after escrow closed. I didn’t think it was a big deal until I realized, I can’t pull the core out without a working key. The blank key with shim to get the core out is exactly the tip I needed!

[juliadennehy]

Thank you. Bought a new home, and found beautiful Schlage brushed nickel handle locksets and deadbolts for all four exterior doors, in a box in the garage, of course, no keys. The shim and key blank worked on all, just need to have a little patience. Again, many thanks!

[EdwinScissors-xgdd]

Dude! You saved my bacon. Lost my keys and needed to re-key my front door. Couldn’t pull the cylinder without the key so I used the technique from your video. Made a shim from a pop can and used a non-blank key to help insert the shim. Worked like a charm. Re-pinned the lock and I am back in business. Thanks so much!

[kimchee]

Been rekeying for years DIY, just learn how the shim works. Before I remove the top cover to access pins and springs, it's a hit or miss as some locks weren't meant to have the top cover removed without special tools. Good video, very detailed and learn a few things.

[maldiviana]

Very clearly explained. Congratulation! Teaching could have been another career path for you.

[ticthak]

Using a scrap of corrugated cardboard for a work bench (and notepad for the pin codes)-
I LOVE IT!!!

[lyndalyles]

Thanks for the video info... I couldn't find those thin metal strips (amazing, when you don't need them there all over any box you bring into the house but when you do need them for the first time, there no where to be found)... So I used the thin plastic box enclosure used on a box of Christmas cards. I simply cut it (plastic enclosure) into very small strips and used it as a metal shim (a few times) and that worked! Now the patio door lock now matches the front door lock...

[SnakePicks]

Thanks for this excellent review! I even used your trick of taking the metal from the dvd security tag. I didn’t have a blank key but I used a pick upside down to push the pins up to get the shim in.

[BIGDOGNAMVET]

thankyou..I am a retired disab led veteran taking locksmith courses to supplement my income..these are helpfull..just reading I find it more difficult to get it....these hands on videos rock...

[jimsutton]

A quick question I couldn’t find an answer to on the Schlage website. I am hoping to rekey a Schlage encode, smart deadbolt and a Schlage B 60N deadbolt to use this same key.

Is the five pin cylinder on the Encode deadbolt the same or similar to the five pin cylinder used in the B60N deadbolt?

Would they use the same pins if I bought a rekey kit online to rekey these cylinders?

A vendor on eBay is telling me they use different pins, but he doesn’t sound that sure of himself.

Many thanks for your help.

[claudiofornaroMusic]

I didn't realize such technical science involved, good job!

[daypriest]

I just bought a Sparrows cutaway lock, a set of the Progressive locks and The Revolver. Also bought a reload kit. I’d like to be able to change the bitting on the Progressive and Cutaway, thus making them harder or easier to pick or rake. But if I do that, and subsequently can’t pick it, I won’t have a key to disassemble the lock. But I would need a blank.

Thus my question... Are the progressives, cutaway (and The Revolver) all based on the same key blank? And regardless, do you know what blank(s) I need to get?

Great channel!

[thynguyen]

Thank you. I've learned a complete class today :)

[LayzieC]

You can also make shims from a soda can if you don't own shims or have the security thing in a dvd

[randyaivaz]

Mucho Interesane, Am locksmith now, self taught early on, A locksmith friend showed me this method. I had been sliding shim through the back, but used a hook pick to lift pins slowly til shim slid forward to next. Didn't know any better, good also if you don't have a blank handy.