Broken off ACS 264 ignition key... options

[ERJDriver]

Anyone have a solution? Key isn't fully broken but slightly twisted and most places say they won't touch it to cut a new one.

I know ACS has them but they're 10 weeks out

 

[Cth6]

Anyone have a solution? Key isn't fully broken but slightly twisted and most places say they won't touch it to cut a new one.

I know ACS has them but they're 10 weeks out

Goto a local locksmith. We have a lock and safe small business here in Clermont. It is a basic filing cabinet key. Most locksmiths can read the depths and recreate it with minimal work. I would avoid the big box stores and they will just toss it in a machine.

 

[ERJDriver]

Goto a local locksmith. We have a lock and safe small business here in Clermont. It is a basic filing cabinet key. Most locksmiths can read the depths and recreate it with minimal work. I would avoid the big box stores and they will just toss it in a machine.

That's the plan, once I get back in town

 

[Cth6]

That's the plan, once I get back in town

Mine is a DE2.

 

[PhatRV]

Just don’t mention it’s an aircraft ignition key. Everyone will avoid it

 

[Bavafa]

Maybe you can share the number that is on the key, perhaps someone has the matching number and can lend you a key till your replacement is ready.
I know I have got an spare one.

 

[Webb]

Goto a local locksmith. We have a lock and safe small business here in Clermont. It is a basic filing cabinet key. Most locksmiths can read the depths and recreate it with minimal work. I would avoid the big box stores and they will just toss it in a machine.

What he said. I took a 40 year old ignition key in and the guy made a new key in 5 minutes based on the depths and did not use the original to make a copy.

 

[ERJDriver]

Maybe you can share the number that is on the key, perhaps someone has the matching number and can lend you a key till your replacement is ready.
I know I have got an spare one.

ACS 264

 

[Bavafa]

ACS 264

Not matching mine.

 

[Gusmax]

Tell whoever is going to work on it that it is for your air boat.

 

[Doug Rohrer]

No need to obfuscate: just say it is for your RV!

 

[RV7A Flyer]

Why do they even need to know what it's for? Here's the old key, I need a new one. Make me one, please.

 

[9GT]

I lost the set of keys for my Andair locking gas caps somewhere in my build shop. When I moved the RV-10 to the airport for final assembly and fuel tank calibration, I called a local locksmith. He came out, picked the lock open, then took it to his shop and made new keys for me. Took a week or so because he had to order the blanks. He was not concerned about it being for an airplane. I did find the original set of keys last year when I sold the house and cleaned out the shop underneath a set of shelving. No locking gas caps on my RV-9A!

 

[Amadeus]

Most locksmiths can read the depths and recreate it with minimal work.

Agreed. A real locksmith, versus someone in paint department covering in hardware, can measure depths at positions and create one from scratch.

When you get the new one make a few copies. I have the one I use, one in the airframe logbook, one in the engine logbook and one hidden in an inspection cover for a lost key while away from home possibility.

I wonder how many keys would be found at Sun 'n Fun and Oshkosh camping areas with a metal detector.

 

[bkervaski]

Could be easier to just replace the switch ...

 

[mark manda]

How do they or you get the broken off flush key half out if you can’t take mechanism off?