joelfromaus@aussie.zone to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoWhich key loses the most paint tells you a lot about that person…aussie.zoneimagemessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1299arrow-down121
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minus-squarejoelfromaus@aussie.zoneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·15 hours agoI wouldn’t use a painted key in a lock. Any material debris in a lock adds resistance and that paint coming off in the lock pretty quickly. I don’t know if that was the original commenters point but that’s why I wouldn’t.
minus-squareSippyCup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 hours agoI used a pained set of keys in my house locks for 13ish years and never ran in to an issue. May have been the type of paint. By the end the only print left on any of them were little splotches around the head of the key and deep in the groves.
minus-squareTheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·14 hours agoI think if they just painted the “body” (the part that you hold) it would be much more efficient.
minus-squareCyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 hours agoYou wouldn’t even need to paint it since there are coloured rubber caps.
minus-squareAFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·13 hours agoYep, that was my point - that paint is going to rub off into the locking mechanism and be a nightmare eventually.
minus-squaredb2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 hours agoPaint it with colored graphite, problems solved.
I wouldn’t use a painted key in a lock. Any material debris in a lock adds resistance and that paint coming off in the lock pretty quickly.
I don’t know if that was the original commenters point but that’s why I wouldn’t.
I used a pained set of keys in my house locks for 13ish years and never ran in to an issue. May have been the type of paint. By the end the only print left on any of them were little splotches around the head of the key and deep in the groves.
I think if they just painted the “body” (the part that you hold) it would be much more efficient.
You wouldn’t even need to paint it since there are coloured rubber caps.
Yep, that was my point - that paint is going to rub off into the locking mechanism and be a nightmare eventually.
Paint it with colored graphite, problems solved.