Handcuff key on SAK

emperorwang

emperorwang

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has this idea ever been considered? I can't find anything online about it, and I have a hard time believing it doesn't exist somewhere. I think a handcuff key would be a perfect addition on a SAK...anybody? Bueller??
 
Yeah. Any one can buy cuff keys online, it's no big deal. I was thinking that in the vein of the Rescue Tool, which marketed towards Fire/EMS/Police personnel, a cuff key would be the perfect addition. Or maybe a Sentinel type single blade locking folder, with a cuff key which opens in the opposite direction. They could call it the Lawman or something.
 
Interesting idea. I am working on a mod to mate a SAK bantam to a folding lock pick jack-knife right now so that is kind of in the same vein. Ill basically just glue the two together and then inlay the left over space to make the jack knife flush with the sides of the SAK. Maybe a cuff key should go on their as well!
 
....I was able to jimmy the lock on a set of S&W cuffs once with the tweezers from my Rucksack. On a pair of Hiatts I was able to shim the locking teeth to open them with the tweezers as well. Again, once. What can I say? Sometimes 3rd shift is slow.:)
 
a handcuff key requires "twisting motion" and sometimes pushing in motion (and a hole), I wonder if it would be easier to make/adopt such a key for the "bit wrench" like on the cybertool models

without the locking/ball bearing it would not lock in but it could still be functional and cool ;)
 
Handcuffs can be opened with either the toothpick or tweezers of a sak. You don't mess with the keyhole, just slide a jimmy in where the ratchet locks up. I've done it with one leg of the tweezers many times, and any thin piece of sheet metal or plastic will work. A plastic filler from a Bic pen will do well.

My son is a police officer, and jokes about how feeble handcuffs are. That's why you see a lot of cops using the plastic flex cuffs; they are more secure.

The only people who think you need a handcuff key are civilains, who don't know how to use anything to open the silly things.

Carl.
 
jackknife said:
The only people who think you need a handcuff key are civilains, who don't know how to use anything to open the silly things.

Carl.
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I'm gonna have to disagree with you Carl.

I know the Smith and Wesson handcuffs have the keyhold and then the secondary slide for the double lock, but most folks I know use Peerless handcuffs, which only have the keyhole. Double locking is done by depressing a pinhead-sized button near the base of the double strand.

At any rate, we "need" handcuff keys very much, because we don't have time to Houdini a freakin pair of cuffs off of a perp. Whether it be unncuffing for booking, or for turnover to a hospital, or to release the double-lock to adjust tension, handcuff keys are a necessity; the longer and more slender the better.

That's why a long, thin, cylindrical cuff key, about the same diameter as the shaft of the phillips head screwdriver (but NOT in the T-Bone placement where the philips head usually is) would be an attractive addition to a Vic sentinel or rescue tool, both models which get carried by LEOs fairly commonly.
 
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