 Hello, YouTube. This is Alex. I've been meaning to do this video for a little while. This is a tutorial on a DIY practice lock. You can get practice locks online for what I think is users amounts of money, but you also might want to you know, set up your own practice lock with something a little more exciting. This happens to be one of the quickset locks that came with the Bosnian bill. Traveling lock partially disassembled it just to save time. So what I did was I removed the circlip from the back. We know we all love circlips. So here's the circlip and I removed this little cover. Now this is actually a pretty nice one that has this cover that kind of snaps on and off. Some of them you'll find have like this brass thing. You've got a pry out. Some of them don't even have a removable thing. You'd have to maybe drill it or file the top off. But we'd like to be able to maybe change the pins in our lock without having to get out the plug follower and do all that kind of nasty stuff. Or we may just want to change one or two pins to play around with different, you know, up-down kind of things. High lows. So here's how to set it up. Make yourself a little pin tray. This is a very sophisticated one made out of a piece of Xerox paper that I doubled over the long way and then folded into about half-inch little peaks. Very, very sophisticated. And now what we will do is there's the lock. Now, next thing you need is a tap. Okay, so I'm gonna take my tap and I'll start with number five and simply very gently get it started and then once it's sort of going, you want to just turn very gently. If it binds at all just back it up a little bit and go again. Okay, and then I'm just gonna run this down, you know, far enough. That was probably about three-eighths of an inch or so and then just pop it back out. Okay, now I'm gonna replete that process for these other ones and I'll come back in a second. Okay, so that took about two minutes and I now have my all the bits of the Bible tapped so you can see the threads there. Okay, since I have an existing key, I'm going to set up the pinning so that it matches my key and to do that I have this little gauge which came with my pinning kit. You can get these pretty cheap online. They come in plastic metal, whatever. But you can see here that there is a section on here marked quickset and this is extremely complicated to use. We're gonna just decode this key. What you do is you hold the thing up like this, take the key, get it pretty square. You start it on this side and you slide it over until it won't slide over anymore, which tells you what the depth of cut is and I'm gonna call that a that looks like a four. Okay, let's see if I can get a good shot of that in there. It's hard to do with one hand. There we go. So you can see it's flush and it's do-do-do-do-do-do-do and that's it number four. See the little four there. So I have four, two, four, five, four. Okay, what does that mean? Well, these keys are cut to code. So what we do, we go over here. I happen to have a pinning kit. You don't have to buy a pinning kit. I got this on eBay for about, I don't know, 60 bucks. They can be very expensive. But you can get one. You can get one on eBay. You can get a smaller one for specific locks or you can even just go to the store and buy sets of pins for different kinds of locks or just collect them and set it up the way you want. But if you happen to have one of these, they usually come with or you can find online a chart which tells you how to set up the thing. So we've determined that the code is four, two, four, five, four. So if I were making a key, this would be the depth of cut that I would use. So I'd measure from the bottom of the key to here and cut as far as it says to down until the depth is whatever it says to do. I have the code number and then I have bottom pin or what you might call key pin, right? So I need a four and that is a two, four, zero. So I come down to my pins. There's a two, four, zero bottom. Okay, so and this is my pin one. So you could use tweezers, but you can also use your deft fingers. Put that in there. Okay, stick the key in and that's a perfect fit. Okay, you're pretty darn close. Okay, so I'm going to repeat that for the other pins and get that get the plug set up and we'll come back in a minute. Okay, so I've got my my plug all pinned up. That looks pretty good. Okay, there's the key in there. Looks good. Now we're on the whole stretch. It gets pretty easy from here. So I'll be right back. So I've already got the key pins in so that's sorted. Now on my chart it said that the top pin is always a 180. So all the top pins are the same size. I'm going to make a little change and that is I want to make this lock a little bit more challenging for the next person that gets the Bosnian bill set. So I'm going to put a couple spools in. My kit happens to come with spools. You can buy the spools on their own or you can collect them from other locks that you take apart and that sort of thing. So here is, if I can pick it up, here is a spool Zooming. That should make a nice backdrop. So you can see that's a spool. Nothing special and it's about 180. I don't think a few thousandths of an inch are going to make a huge difference here. You just don't want something that's really too long or it'll jam the lock up. So I'm going to even put my tweezers away. I'm going to stick the spools in just some few locations. My spool number one, stick one in the, maybe the front. This one I do need the tweezer. Stick one in the front position. Okay, there it goes down in there. Maybe one in the back. Okay, you typically want to have one non spool. You can put a serrated in or just a regular pin. Those spools were symmetrical. So the top and bottom of them were the same length. On this particular kit, I just want to show you one thing. Here is a much longer spool. And you'll see that the the spoolie bit is towards the end and then it's got a bunch of extra unspooled part here. If you wanted this to actually work properly as a spool, you want to put the the spool part facing down so that it can catch in the keyway or catch in the shear line. If you put it in the other way, nothing interesting is going to happen. And now I'm just going to take the original top pins that came with the lock and put those in positions. Screw that positions two and three. Okay, and I now have my lock. I don't like that one. Put that in here. Okay. So got everybody sorted. There we go. Okay, now at this point before I go put the springs and everything in I just want to sort of do a quick check to make sure that the that everything still works. Okay, so there's the I've got the key pins in there's the key. Everything's turning. Nothing's jamming on me. So that looks good. Take the key back out without popping a plug out, Bill. And I'll take that locked up. Next step, as you might imagine, is to reinstall the springs, which we will now do. Now we grab our set screws or grub screws for those of you in. And I think I cleverly didn't grab the right Allen wrench, so I'm not even gonna use a tool. I'm gonna use one of my picks. And I'll just start with this position. And all I need to do is snug it down to the point where it I may not even need a tool to do this. I just need to snug it down to where it's not gonna flop out. I don't want to super tighten it, okay? Because it'll it'll, you know, squash everything too much and the lock may not function properly. Okay, I've got all my little set screws installed. In this particular lock I had to back them out slightly because I was getting a little bit too much spring tension. That means I could either back this, I could either cut the springs down or potentially use shorter grub screws, but those will hold just fine. In a mortise cylinder you got plenty of room and so it'd be a lot easier. So we shove the key in. Key is working. Great. Very carefully remove the key because I actually, fuck it, why don't we just put the circle that doesn't have the index and then we'll just give him a little squeeze to seat him in there. So I did use one more tool but you probably have a set of pliers laying around in your house. If you don't, well, you should. So, and now my lock's all pinned up. Now from this point on, I don't need to have a follower or any other fancy tools. If you need tweezers, what a C2 mate, you know, steal one from your wife. They work just fine. Just don't let her see you doing that. That's my wife, crawls at me. And that's it. You now have a practice cylinder that you can use and you can make it as hard or as easy as you want and you can re-key it, re-pin it at your heart's content. DIY practice lock. Euro cylinders, highly recommended because they're a bitch to take apart. You can get the Bible either drilled out or taken apart. And that's it. So I hope this helps some people. Certainly good for newbies and even those of us who've been doing this a little while, it's kind of a cool thing to have on hand. So thanks for watching. This is Alex. Have fun and please keep it legal. Cheers.