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Use a camera You can recreate keys from images

• maerF0x0 4y ago
  surely this cant be true for most keys? I mean I'm sure for regular house keys... But car keys, bike lock keys, padlock keys? if true then TIL!
  • corobo 4y ago
    Admittedly I was only thinking of like safes and lockboxes, stuff you could probably open without the key anyway given a bit of time I doubt there's any forgotten houses or cars in my family's junk collection in any case and I have no use for old bike locks and padlocks, they'd binned anyway whether I found a matching key or not
  • alexjm 4y ago
    If you have a decent photo of the side of the key, you can make a pretty good guess at the bitting code, which is essentially the instructions for making a copy. Here's an example of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoRyv4ANhM4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoRyv4ANhM4