Article 224 of misc.security: Path: bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!decvax!ucbvax!quintus.UUCP!gregg From: gregg@quintus.UUCP (W. Gregg Stefancik) Newsgroups: misc.security Subject: Locksmithing School directory and commentary Message-ID: <8712172229.AA13923@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 6 Dec 87 02:08:20 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 69 Approved: security@rutgers.edu A list of locksmithing schools appeared in this months National Locksmith. For those of you who can't obtain a copy I have retyped the list below: Acme School Locksmithing Divison 11350 S. Harlem Worth, IL 60482 312 361 3750 Foley Belsaw Institute 6301 Equitable Rd. Kansas City, MO 64120 800 328 7140 California Institute of Locksmithing 14721 Oxnard St. Van Nuys, Ca 91411 818 994 7426 HPC Learning Center PO Box 2093 Schiller Park, IL 60176 312 671 6445 Locksmithing Institute 1500 Cardinal Drive Little Falls, NJ 07424 201 256 4512 NRI Schools 3939 Wisconsin Ave. Washington, DC 20016 202 244 1600 NY School of Locksmithing 152 W. 42nd St. New York, NY 10036 Security Education Plus PO Box 497 Nicholasville, KY 40356 606 887 6027 Universal School of Master Locksmithing 3201 Fulton Ave. Sacramento, CA 95821 916 482 4216 I have had some experience with two of the above schools. I graduated from the Foley Belsaw Institute course which does a reasonable job of covering the basics, but the course is a bit dated. You will not learn about interchangeable cores, opening modern cars, or pushbutton locks. Foley Belsaw does provide you with the connections to obtain proper bonding and subscriptions to the two popular trade magazines (National Locksmith and Locksmith Ledger). Foley Belsaw will also provide you with locksmithing supplies at a reasonable cost, but once you make connections via the trade publications the sky is the limit. It is a wonderful way to increase your locksmithing knowledge and be right with the law at the same time. They also provide you with an extremely useful key machine which can copy keys and cut them by code w/o depth keys. I sent away for the NRI course information and found that while the course was a little better packaged than the Foley Belsaw course it cost roughly 3 times as much! I would not recommend the NRI course unless you have big bucks to burn. Gregg Stefancik Foley Belsaw Certified Locksmith quintus!gregg