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Changing Your Locks
Discover How-To tutorials on rekeying InstaKey user-rekeyable cylinders, swapping out interchangeable cores, and changing standard cylinders.
Best Practices
- How do I eliminate the cost of rekeying?
- What is the best way to track my keys?
- How can I extend the lives of my locks and keys?
- When should I change my locks?
- What do I do if my keys feel sticky or are hard to turn in a lock?
- How do I get help for a lock or key concern?
- How do I avoid having to change my locks?
Rekeying
- What is rekeying?
- When should I rekey my locks?
- What is the difference between rekeying and recoring?
- How do I rekey an InstaKey core?
- Which Rekeying Kit should I use?
- How do I rekey with a Control Key?
- How do I rekey a Mortise Lockset?
- How do I rekey an Emergency Exit Device?
- How do I rekey an Exit Alarm?
- How do I rekey a Storeroom Leverset?
- How do I rekey an Office (push button) Leverset?
- How do I rekey a Deadbolt?
- How do I rekey a Padlock?
- How do I rekey an Electrified Lockset?
- What do I do when I've reached the last step of an InstaKey system?
Interchangeable Core Installation
Troubleshooting Techniques
- What do the numbers on my InstaKey key mean?
- What do I do if I cannot get the required 180 degree rotation of the Step Change Key to complete a rekey?
- What do I do if my old key continues to work in the lock?
- What is the tube of black stuff (dry graphite) in my Rekeying Kit?
- What can I do if my key is stuck in the lock?
- Why do my new keys look the same as my old keys?