They can fairly easily be swapped over without the little vice, I have done them in the past with a very small punch & just resting the key on a normal slightly open vice. The first time I tried to do it by myself though I lost the little pin on my garage floor. Far easier with an extra pair of hands. putting the pin back in its best just to use a small pair of long nose pliers. The good thing about the key vice it is full of little magnets that catch the pins as they come out & all the little compartments are magnetic too for those tiny little screws from key fobs when changing batteries etc. I think I paid about £13 for mines from china.
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That explains why I could never transplant the damned thing - I was trying to over complicate it by trying to remove and relocate the complete spring pivot mechanism. An epic fail on my behalf.
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Garage mechanics aren't normal?Hell Razor5543 wrote: ↑06 Nov 2017, 10:38Not much use to a normal person, but very useful to, say, a garage mechanic.
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I think that applies to many of us on here Wheeler
Some have a distinctly abnormal feeling for torque and how tight to do things upPaul-R wrote: ↑06 Nov 2017, 13:53Garage mechanics aren't normal?Hell Razor5543 wrote: ↑06 Nov 2017, 10:38Not much use to a normal person, but very useful to, say, a garage mechanic.
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OK, what I meant was that an average member of the public would not have much call for such a device (probably only use it once in a blue moon), but a mechanic or a locksmith could be using it on a regular basis.
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