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

How about this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Porter-Cable-5...2246042&sr=1-3

Might be others.

MJM

That was Norm and it was a Porter Cable.

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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 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:32:08 -0800, "CW"
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

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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, 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 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:03:12 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:22:22 GMT, 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