Help! Lost '39 Mercury keys...

Now that's funny.

 

Ask around locally in your neighborhood, or even call a local locksmith for an "old time key guy" and find a guy that has been around for a while & I bet they can make you a key with your spare door key.

There is a place in KC, Brandts Locksmith on 85th & Wornall ( http://www.brandtlocksmiths.com/ ) and they can make you a key in about 3 minutes and it will be a couple of bucks, unless it is a fancy one with a 'chip'.....that will cost you $30. I took a filing cabinet there once that was 'locked' and he told me that it would be $2 to break the lock and be $5 to make a key.....I said "Make the key" and he shined a flashlight inside the lock and went inside and came back out and said "Try this", yep.........Click and it opened it.

Oh yea, I'm sure that you have done this already.....but, check EVERYWHERE and like someone mentioned......give him a second set and watch/follow him. Kid's think that it is cool to do what dad does, so check your patterns recently (taking off your helmet from your bike and setting stuff in it). Also, magnet EVERYTHING in your trash/yard if you can.....you can get those Big ole' magnets from Harbor Freight for about $10 and they are a lifesaver.

Chris

 

Old GM wafer keys are ****...the master key set is a fingernail file. '32-about '50 Ford ones are quite precisely cut and have no tolerance for slightly-off stuff...I have a LOT of old Ford keys around and have never gotten a cylinder to turn with a key from anything else, whether the cylinder was a well-worn salvage or NOS. I am not a lock hotshot, but I can pick most other old automotive locks without much fuss.
I would continue the attack on the door lock as first thing...mebbe Dremel off the head, dremel a divot into stump, and drill. From memory it's 10-32--don't ever trust my memory, though... and probably has enough meat around it to take tapping out a bit bigger.
Next would be small hole into steering lock pin, tap and pull...but I have no idea how much of the extra deco architecture around it on that Merc has to come apart! I'm used to Ford ones hanging out in the air.

 

Then why does it say master key set on the box?

 

Have you been in my garage? Those items are the two hardest thing for me to find. I wish I was more careful where I set stuff.

 

I always leave tools and stuff in the pockets of my work pants knowing I will wear them again tomarrow. My wife will put them in the wash and she's always finding tools in the washing machine. check there?

 

Glove box lock... door lock...trunk lock.
I am a locksmith. Give me the numbers off the lock I'll send you a key.
Terry

 

Is the little tyke still in daipers? You know the drill for the next couple of days......

 

IF the thing is stock, I think glove box and trunk are one key, door and steering the other.
There was a commonly available GM set available throught the same sort of slightly dubious we-sell-to-anyone locksmith suppliers (I think Shomertech, other crazed survivalist kinds of places) covering '50's-through '70's GM. I remember the ads saying it had something like 40 keys...this was slightly crude amateurish stuff. Never had one.
Somewhere I have a Model T universal set, which is just FOUR of those weird wavy keys riveted into a cross...not a big security loss, though, since the Model T locks that used that key series was numbered on the FRONT and the matching key numbers ( I think about 30 variants) were readily available at most parts stores!

 

Try saying a prayer to St. Anthony. He always helped my mom find her reading gl***es when she lost them.

 

I do that too & usually catch hell for it just about the time the washing machine or dryer starts to make thumpy-clangy noises.

 

Bruce's memory has a lot of meat around it?

The other day I went to my brother's house and they were searching frantically for his wife's lost keys. Went around everywhere in the house and car a couple times. Then checked the front door and there they were. It's funny when it happens to someone else.

 

Any update?

 

have you looked on the hook,i found my lost keys there a few days ago

 

After my daily keys went missing and we couldn't find them, removed a lock, got the internal numbers, derived the key code from the slider numbers, and got a key cut to match, my wife found them in her handbag!

Mart.