36 KEYNOTES DECEMBER 2022 WWW.ALOA.ORG Boing, Bounce, Oops! As mentioned earlier, I was thankful that my son was there with me. When he works with me, I like to show and explain things to him as we go. Whenever possible, I like to use on-the- job training. Well, on this job, when we got to front door lock (type 3), I was eager to show him how to get the cylinder out of the lock to rekey it — possibly a little too eager. As I was talking to him, I removed the four T-10 screws. Instead of following the procedures that I mention above for type 3, I immediately took the back of the lock off instead of the faceplate, without thinking. Boing, bounce, oops! Pieces of the lock were everywhere, and within in a split second, I real- ized what I had done. I could only shake my head and chuckle. I just stood there motionless with a smile on my face thinking, “Man, what did I just do?” My son was looking at me, and I could only imagine what he was thinking. Fortunately, the house was vacant, and we were using the kitchen counter as our work area to rekey the locks. I looked all around on the counter top for the parts and found everything except one part: the clutch pin. After looking around the entire kitchen coun- ter, I just could not find it. Ricky asked me what it looked like. I told him that it looked like a little metal mushroom with a spring around it (Figures 30 and 31). He then said, “I heard something over there when the lock came apart.” He pointed behind me to the other side of the kitchen. I thought to myself, “OK, but there’s no way that you’ll find it over there; that’s just too far.” Sure enough, he found it on the floor. I would not have believed it could have sprung away so far, but it did. If my son was not there that day with me, I certainly would have never found that part. Anyhow, it all worked out. I got the lock back together, and it was working fine. Should you come across one of these three types of Schlage FE595 locks, hopefully you’ll be able to use the information in this article as a guide. Or, if you accidentally take one apart the wrong way, you’ll know that you’re not alone! Rick Karas, RL, CFDI, AFDI, started in the lock- smith industry in 1983. A licensed locksmith, he has experience with many physical security disci- plines, including access control systems, intrusion detection systems and video monitoring systems. He works in both a commercial and institutional settings. Rick owns Phil-Rich Lock, which serves the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Figures 30 and 31. The author temporarily misplaced the clutch pin, which looks like a little metal mushroom with a spring around it. Figure 30 Figure 31
