File Cabinet Lockout

Have you ever needed your birth certificate or other important documents and realized that you lost the key to your file cabinet? How would you think to get your file cabinet open? You could break it but that would be a waste of money. Why not call a local Salem locksmith? They provide lockout services and could come out and open it with little to no damage.

Best case scenario they get it open with no damage to the file cabinet. Worst case scenario they would have to drill the lock. A file cabinet can be easier for the locksmith to pick. A file cabinet lock consists of wafers that are easier for the locksmith to manipulate with pick tools than a door lock with pins. The wafers are small and closer together that is why it has a smaller key than a door.

With a cabinet lock the wafers do not have top pins and springs that push the bottom pins down. Wafer locks consist of small wafers that are closer together making it easier to get into position for the lock to unlock. When the locksmith picks a cabinet lock it can be harder because there is little room to arrange the picks correctly. Once in the right position, the locksmith will have little to no problems picking the lock.

Are you concerned the lock may get damaged from the locksmith picking the lock? When the locksmith is picking the lock, it causes no damage to the lock. What the picking process does is essentially manipulating the lock to make it think the key is in the lock. There is no damage to the lock when they pick it. Once the cabinet is picked the locksmith will put the core back to the original position and the key if found, will work the lock just fine.