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Locksmithing at the North Bennet Street School
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" Let's get together with instructor David Triana to find out what students learn in the locksmithing program at the north Bennet street school. Now as a lot more of the program than just learning how to make keys witness's state of the art machine. And our team of locksmithing field say trying machine it. All right. He's fight goes. I simply pushing buttons so you don't need you GOP is a template now. Many students do you have here at any given time in the course you know we take between twelve and sixteen students. And we start them two times a year and eight in September and forever there's a lot of demand for locksmith have a huge demand -- calls from all over the country. Wants to do now is are they in school full time or do they also get to work in the field here from 732. Little after twelve and in the afternoons after they've been here for awhile when you get the basics again right we get them jobs practices -- so they work and they start similar all right. So let's look at them -- these look like the Baldwin's that we're using. That. Would be a nice."
" Baldwin mortise lock right this is a Baldwin full mortise lock folk artist leaves. That you got from the approval for example and the remarkable holes in one action one combination. The controls are -- controls are. And the turmoil -- refers to the -- so you know workings of the lock that is actually more dust into the side of the the door itself OK. What are the working hard and well right here we have the bolt mechanism the latch. The hubs which. We retract the latch by using you know turn the knob and then what steep part that wears out first I mean sometimes you'll buy a house with a hundred year old front door. And the lock is perfectly fine but the might feel worn out exactly most of the time she Springsteen minor things that can be repaired with good competent locksmith can these fresher and restore it to like new great. Now over here this clearly is an antique lock what do you call that they scheerer has this is an holes. Rim lock it's lever rim market came out of the Charles street jail in Boston mass a few years ago. And why is that -- bad heart shape there was that it works well. The beauty of this lock is it shows you what craftsmen did many years ago. They were proud of the work they performed in they would. Make interest in intricate designs. On the -- lock mechanism. And these were things that only they would appreciate her the next locksmithing worked on the -- appreciate so this fellow put in the shape of the heart exact swap. And now this is the finish that we've chosen for our front door. Right lock you chose some Baldwin images and this has the lifetime finish. Which -- worked so well in most environments yet anytime you're close to the ocean as well what is that what is the point of all the little pins. These coordinate to the keys -- I don't know what he's doing right now we're in the midst of master key systems and he's learning how to write master key systems. And also to pin the locks up so it. You'll have master key for a group of locks and individual keys for individual locks so the little colored pieces go into that cylinder and they are as the actual. Parts that correspond to exactly fighting on equity into the cuts of the key. Made lineup if she airline and that's how the -- opens terrific thanks David thank you Bob."