So A friend and myself went around to 3 locksmith's in the city this week to find someone who could duplicate my coin door keys. I just want spares, one to keep with the machines, and another to have on a wall somewhere as backup.
Nobody could duplicate them.
Has anybody here ever duplicated their keys, and what do I need to do?
Buy a few of these. All keyed alike, and prob cheaper than a locksmith.
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=20&parent=45
Is this something that they can do at Home Depot or Lowes? They have a key duplicator machine at both places. I'm guessing they'd have to have the same or close to size key in order to do it.
Lowes didn't have the right keys when I went to duplicate coin door stuff. They could do house keys, but not much else.
Quoted from mhs:Lowes didn't have the right keys when I went to duplicate coin door stuff. They could do house keys, but not much else.
pretty much what I ran into everywhere I checked.
When I bought my pin the guy who sold it to me had replaced the coin door lock with a new one, and it came with a new set of keys.
Surely there is a place that sells pinball parts that has a coin door lock and keys...
I know people replace them all the time.
I have 2 keys, don't need any more than that. 1 stays in the door and 1 on the backbox.
Quoted from JWS64:Surely there is a place that sells pinball parts that has a coin door lock and keys...
I know people replace them all the time.
Quoted from hawkeye11:Buy a few of these. All keyed alike, and prob cheaper than a locksmith.
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=20&parent=45
Most machines have disk tumbler locks and blanks can be hard to get so most don't stock them. I stock very few of those type myself. If you want to find them your best bet is to find a locksmith who has been in the same place since the machine was built. Or get new locks like others said. A key copy should be cheaper at a locksmith shop it's just finding the out dated key blanks. Locks trend like car models, all ways evolving...
Jarrod L. Weber
Jarrod's Lock & Lawnmower Repair 
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Chicago, IL
Thanks Dude, thought my posts were invisible or something.