A while back I caught a show about morising an "old style" lock into a
door. (Think skeleton key). This thing clamped to the edge of the
door and using what looked like a router, it cut the slot wide and
deep into the door. It had a winding mechanism that moved to bit up
and down and forward.
Is this a store bought machine and who sells it?
P
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:03:12 -0500, [email protected] wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:22:22 GMT, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>A while back I caught a show about morising an "old style" lock into a
>>door. (Think skeleton key). This thing clamped to the edge of the
>>door and using what looked like a router, it cut the slot wide and
>>deep into the door. It had a winding mechanism that moved to bit up
>>and down and forward.
>>
>>
>>Is this a store bought machine and who sells it?
>>
>>P
>We have one at work. It is a Porter Cable. While it does excell for
>what it is intended it also does double duty for us. Right now we are
>using it to cut the mortises in a set of double doors (2 1/4" x 4'6" x
>94") with 7" stiles and 8" top and midrails and over 10" bottom rails.
>We have a pretty decent hollow chisel mortiser but these are beyond
>it's capacity. The porter cable lock mortiser works extremely well for
>this task.
>
>Lenny
Pretty much what I was thinking it would be good at doing. Nice the
hear that someone else thinks like me.
P
That was Norm and it was a Porter Cable.
<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> A while back I caught a show about morising an "old style" lock into a
> door. (Think skeleton key). This thing clamped to the edge of the
> door and using what looked like a router, it cut the slot wide and
> deep into the door. It had a winding mechanism that moved to bit up
> and down and forward.
>
>
> Is this a store bought machine and who sells it?
>
> P
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:22:22 GMT, [email protected] wrote:
>A while back I caught a show about morising an "old style" lock into a
>door. (Think skeleton key). This thing clamped to the edge of the
>door and using what looked like a router, it cut the slot wide and
>deep into the door. It had a winding mechanism that moved to bit up
>and down and forward.
>
>
>Is this a store bought machine and who sells it?
>
>P
We have one at work. It is a Porter Cable. While it does excell for
what it is intended it also does double duty for us. Right now we are
using it to cut the mortises in a set of double doors (2 1/4" x 4'6" x
94") with 7" stiles and 8" top and midrails and over 10" bottom rails.
We have a pretty decent hollow chisel mortiser but these are beyond
it's capacity. The porter cable lock mortiser works extremely well for
this task.
Lenny
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:32:08 -0800, "CW" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>That was Norm and it was a Porter Cable.
...when I bought mine it was $950...when you consider what you can
charge for installing a box lock, and how long (and iffy, depending on
door thickness) it takes to drill and chisel by hand, it's a helluva
bargain.
cg
>
><[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>> A while back I caught a show about morising an "old style" lock into a
>> door. (Think skeleton key). This thing clamped to the edge of the
>> door and using what looked like a router, it cut the slot wide and
>> deep into the door. It had a winding mechanism that moved to bit up
>> and down and forward.
>>
>>
>> Is this a store bought machine and who sells it?
>>
>> P
>