LSA REPORTER

VOLUME 29, NO. 1

EDITORS: William M. Lynk, CML, CPS, ICML, CAI, M.Ed.,

SEPTEMBER, 2015

LSA Website: http://www.LSAmichigan.org

Ray Sinai, CML & Alvin Moebus, CPL Publication Deadline: Submit items Two (2) Weeks [14 calendar days] by 5:00 p.m. AFTER the last LSA meeting.

President—Jeremy M. Ameen, CML (810) 629-6883 Education Chairman—To Be Announced Vice President—Marc Dearing, CPL (810) 603-4100 Membership Secretary—Alvin Moebus, CPL (313) 885-9365 Secretary/Newsletter—Ray Sinai, CML (248) 543-5397 Public Relations—John Hubel, CML, ICML (586) 254-7233 Treasurer—Aron Boag, CRL (248) 321-2244 Librarian—Larry Williams, RL, CPP (248) 917-2323 Sargent-At-Arms—Byron Lutes, ARL (734) 751-0336 Refreshments—Richard Danforth (248) 890-2681 Newsletter—William M. Lynk, CML, CPS, ICML (313) 884-9800 Technical Operations Director—William Trout (248) 350-0027 Newsletter—Alvin Moebus, CPL (313) 885-9365 Board of Directors: Jeremy Ameen, CML, Ray Sinai, CML,

Webmaster—William M. Lynk, CML , CPS, ICML (313) 884-9800 John Hubel, CML; ICML, Rob Rovinsky, CPL; Robert Noble, CML, CPS;

Photographer —Rob Rovinsky, CPL (248) 644-7939 Larry Williams, RL, CPP, Maurice Horne, CML, Larry Walker, CRL

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LSA Officers

The Locksmith Security Association of Michigan

I trust that you had a great summer between work, family, and time off. I always find that in summertime it is hard to balance work and family when it stays light until almost 10 p.m. and you can just keep on working. If you didn’t take family time, why not plan a day off or a small weekend get away before this year slips away? Maybe a fall color tour, or just a nice drive up north! I hope that by now you are starting to get back into a regular fall rou-tine with kids back in school, days becoming shorter, and clubs starting back up. It seems that the past few months have flown by! I look forward to hearing some fun stories from you at our next meeting when we are having a bite to eat together. I am anxiously awaiting another exciting year at LSA. This year I hope to see more education, more hands on, and more of you! We always like it when our members come and join us at the monthly meetings. What will this year will bring for LSA? It’s all up to you! We will focus on what LSA stands for, but if you have a suggestion on some new ideas, or an education topic, my door is always open. Lets make this 2015-2016 LSA year the best one yet!

Jeremy Ameen, CMLJeremy Ameen, CMLJeremy Ameen, CMLJeremy Ameen, CML ---- LSA PresidentLSA PresidentLSA PresidentLSA President

PRESIDENTIAL PENNINGS—JEREMY AMEEN, CML

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PRP GLOSSARY—KNOW IT & USE IT!

A Study in A Study in A Study in A Study in ”F””…””…””…””…” flat goods—ancillary architectural hardware such as push plates, mop plates, stretcher plates, kick plates, etc.

flat steel key—a flat type key made of steel

flat type key—a key which is completely flat on both sides, usually used for warded or lever tumbler locks

flexible head mortise cylinder—an adjustable mortise cylinder which can be extended against spring pressure to a slightly longer length

floor closer—a door closer installed below the door at the floor surface, gener-ally also acting as a bottom pivot for the door

floor master key—a master key which operates all or most master keyed locks on a particular floor of a building

NEXT

MONTH’S

LSA

MEETING THURSDAY ,

OCTOBER 8TH,

2015 AT

7:00 P .M .

Locksmith Security Association meets at 7:00 p.m., the second

Thursday of the month (Sept. to June) in the Metro Detroit Area in southeast Michigan at:

Troy Community Center 3179 Livernois

Troy, MI 48083 (248) 524-3484

LSA begins again this Thursday, Sep-tember 10th at 7:00 p.m. in Troy, Michi-gan. Join President Ameen and Members to discuss this year’s agenda.

Can You Identify These V.I.P. LSA Members? (answers on last page of this issue)

#1 #2

Season Opener!

2015-2016—Dinner at 7:00 pm

September LSA General Meeting—Thursday, 09/10/15 October LSA General Meeting—Thursday, 10/08/15 November LSA General Meeting—Thursday, 11/12/15 December LSA General Meeting—Thursday, 12/10/15 2016 January LSA General Meeting—Thursday, 01/08/16

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“Qwik-Qwiz”

The technique of com-bining several alarm signals over a single transmission medium is known as ___ .

A) direct wire B) line security C) multiplexing D) digital dialer

[Answer on Last Page

of this Newsletter]

WEB L INKS

CALENDAR OF LSA EVENTS—SEE WEBSITE FOR COMPREHENSIVE LIST

ALOA www.aloa.org

IDN-Hardware Sales, Inc. www.IDNhardware.com LynkWeb—Hosting & Domains

www.LynkWeb.com

LAB -Pins &Tools www.labpins.com

LSA-Premiere Association www.LSAmichigan.org

www.TheLockman.com ICLS—Key Retainers & Tools

www.ICLSglobal.com

“Education, Knowledge & Cooperation—LSA”

Caesar & Marcus

LSA Mascots

Commercial Mobile Locksmith / Access Control Business for sale in

Austin, Texas. Established in 1986. One owner. Commercial clients from

over 29 ½ years of business. Types of service are: Access control systems

sales, installation and repair, low energy door opener sales, installation

and repair, take offs from blueprints for hardware sales, hardware installs,

master key systems with their continued maintenance. This is a one per-

son business with plenty of room for expansion. Austin is a boom town

with lots of work for the right person. This is an established business with

a large consistent client base. My business phone number would be trans-

ferred as well as introductions to most if not all of the clients. It is my inten-

tion that all of the clients have their needs met far into the future. All cli-

ents, locations, products installed and maintained will be discussed in

great detail. It is also my intention to provide future phone support if

needed with any product or client after the sale. The asking price will be

very reasonable considering the yearly revenue this business generates. I

will discuss this with any serious buyers. A state license is required.

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Commercial Business For Sale

In Austin, Texas

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ROGUE’S ROW — JUNE LSA MEETING PIX

ROB ROVINSKY, CPL - OFFICIAL LSA PHOTOGRAPHER

PAGE 5 The Locksmith Security Association of Michigan

ROGUE’S ROW — INSTALLATION AT MARX LOCKSMITH

ROB ROVINSKY, CPL - OFFICIAL LSA PHOTOGRAPHER

Are YOU a Member of LSA? You can download the form from: http://www.lsamichigan.org/Docs/Application%20Form%

PAGE 6 The Locksmith Security Association of Michigan

Why not be a Corporate/Business Sponsor for LSA!?! You can download form from: http://www.lsamichigan.org/Docs/Application%20Assoc%20Mem%20Form%2012%20022612.pdf

PAGE 7 The Locksmith Security Association of Michigan

Fellowship of Christian Locksmiths

PAGE 8 The Locksmith Security Association of Michigan

The Fellowship of Christian Locksmiths (FCL) took on a charitable project this summer, that of rekeying hundreds of cylinders at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. In addition to the education as-sociated with working with commercial hardware, typical issues of lock wear, dissecting exit devices, and the detail of minute cylinder parts, the FCL developed a fellowship with like minded locksmiths to perform a service to an organization of significant importance. An entire new master key system was implemented. Hundreds of keys were cut. Members from the Locksmith Security Association (LSA) also took part in this pro-ject. Over a hundred man hours were invested to date. Two of the three phases have been com-pleted. The third phase will in-volve more Schlage Pri-mus. The date is yet to be determined to complete this project. If have a de-sire to learn about Schlage Primus or give back part of your talent for a good cause, you are in-vited to participate in this third phase. You can obtain details from John Hubel, CML 586-254-7233.

RAY’S WAYS — “SERVICING TIPS” -BY RAY S INAI, CML

Are you involved in servicing commercial office or medical office buildings? Make the building engi-neer / building maintenance your friend. Usually we are dealing with property management but the building normally has an on –site maintenance man. No, I’m not telling you to take him out to the ball game or out to din-ner with the wives. If this person likes you, he can help your business. If he doesn’t like you, you won’t get much business or you may even lose the project / building. The upper level management does listen to him. We have seen in many instances where the building engineer is com-pletely overwhelmed with work. Many of the projects we are given are within his ability but he can’t complete them in a reasonable amount of time to satisfy the tenant. Remem-ber, their number one priority is to keep the tenants happy. He (or she) may not have any knowledge of locksmithing or what exactly it is you do. Don’t let that stop you from assisting him or her and even teaching them some tricks of the trade. These little actions go a long way. Don’t ever be condescending or unkind to these people. They may try to repair the door hardware and make your life more difficult, but it’s usually done at the direction of their superiors. I recently had one of these engineers ask me for a certain tool to tighten a lockset. He knew how to tighten the lock but didn’t have the security screwdriver to do the job. I went to Harbor Freight and bought him a set for a whopping $6.00 and delivered it to him. Do you think I made some points with him and his company? The other side to that is a different story that I will tell of lost business. The maintenance man of an of-fice complex asked me to do a job for him personally. I knew him quite well, I thought, and went to a rental home that was owned by his boss. I had to fit keys to the doors, which I found out later that this mainte-nance man had lost. He didn’t want to tell his boss for fear of being fired. So I charged him a minimal amount to do the job, I just fit a key to one lock. I called him and bugged him about the money, he always had an excuse. The bank messed up his checking account, the post office lost the check, etc. The end of the story is he refused to call me to service the buildings because he owed me money, I didn’t want him to lose his job by telling the boss and I really lost out. In retrospect, I should have told him the job was gratis and I could still be servicing this office complex. This just happened to me again. A property manager asked me to do some work at his mother’s home. After waiting 3 months, I received a check that bounced. I spoke to him about it and he said that he would bring cash to me. It never happened. I still do work for him and his company. It will never be mentioned by me again. I do a lot of work for this property management company and the lost money will be a write-off for my business. I will refuse any personal work for this particular person, but I don’t choose to lose a long time commercial customer over this. As they say, pick your battles. Be kind to your customers, even if they are not always kind to you. Be the better person. Just remember to charge for your GOOD service and your GOOD attitude. - Respectfully Submitted, Ray Sinai, CML

Past LSA President

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To follow is another page from the now defunct Locksmithing Institute of New Jersey Home Study Lock-smithing Course, started by the late Leonard Singer (Master Keying Expert). The program went out of busi-ness in the early 1980s. This lesson excerpt is circa 1973 . Some illustrious graduates who are LSA members include: Ray Sinai, Theo Schultz, Dan Meggison, Nick Palise, Tom Lewis and William Lynk, as well as the notable Billy B. Edwards, Casey Camper and inventor John Ulaszek.

LOOKING BACK INTO THE LOCKING PAST…RETRO #42

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Safety Technology International, Inc.

Tim Zale, Inside Sales tzale@sti-usa.com www.sti-usa.com

(248) 673-9898

Securitech Group 54-45 44th Street

Maspeth, NY 11378

(800) 622-5625

www.securitech.com

1100 Killian Road Akron, OH 44312

1-(800) 321-9602

Associate Members/Sponsors of LSA

Zipf Lock Company 830 Harmon Ave.

Columbus, Ohio 43223

Call: (800) 848-1577 Fax: (800) 228-6320

http://www.zipflockco.com

National Wholesale Distributor of Commercial & Residential

Door Hardware and Locksmith Supplies since 1908.

♦John Hubel, CML

♦(586) 254-7233

BREAK- IN BLOCKER By Sovilok

Toll free: 888-SOVILOK www.breakinblocker.com Jon Hohauser-Mfg. Rep

(248) 650-7824

P.O. Box 610 Mackinaw City, MI 49701 Kristy McFarland, Managing Director

The Locksmith Security Association of Michigan

S. J. Schilling & Associates, Inc.

Representing:

American Lock, Cal Royal, Emtek, Master Lock

Steve Schilling

Office: (740) 929-2933 Cell: (614) 496-4387

E-mail: sjschilling@roadrunner.com

77 Rodeo Drive Brentwood, NY 11717

Marshall Brooks, Technical Support Specialist

(631) 492-1711 mabrooks@uslock.com

www.USLock.com

LSA Dinner Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring Dinner for a future LSA meeting, contact President Jeremy Ameen, CML (810) 629-6883 or Re-freshment Chairperson Richard Danforth, Sr.. All of our members are appreciative for your time, funds and effort. Thank you.

September—LSA of Michigan

October— November—

December— January— February— March— April— May—

June—

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FOR MEMBERSHIP INFO. , CONTACT: AL MOEBUS, CPL—MEMBERSHIP CHAIR

533 FISHER ROAD, GROSSE POINTE, MI 48230

(313) 885-9365

Associate Members/Sponsors of LSA

JLM Wholesale, Inc. 3095 Mullins Ct.

Oxford, MI 48371

www.jlmwholesale.com

(800) 522-2940

FAX: (800) 782-1160 Wholesale Hardware

Bockert & Associates 18 Fort Monroe Industrial Parkway

Monroeville, OH 44847

(800) 321-7550 FAX: (419) 465-4216

Manufacturer Reps for: DON JO, DETEX,

ACSI, MARKS USA, RCI, CANSEC, ABH, ADA-EZ,

ABH, Olympus

Gene SimonGene SimonGene SimonGene Simon

Hardware SpecialistHardware SpecialistHardware SpecialistHardware Specialist Phone: (708) 799-8783 FAX: (708) 799-4322

P.O. Box 51 Flossmoor, IL 60422

Representing: Jet Hardware Mfg. Corp. LAB Security Products

Major Manufacturing, Inc.

RITTNER/FRENCH ASSOCIATES 150 S. Elizabeth

Rochester, MI 48307

(800) 732-4773

1-800-RFA-4-SPEC

FAX: (248) 651-2650

IDN-Hardware Sales, Inc. 35950 Industrial Road

P.O. Box 510624 Livonia, MI 48150

Livonia : (800) 521-0955 FAX: (800) 272-4409

http://www.idnhardware.com

Warren : (800) 468-7490 FAX: (586) 755-5145

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700 Emmett St. Bristol, CT 06010

(800) 243-8242

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800-537-5397

9950 Freeland Avenue

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Framon Manufacturing Company., Inc.

909 Washington Ave Alpena, MI 49707

Phone: 989-354-5623 Fax: 989-354-4238

Web: www.framon.com

Publication Deadline: Submit items Two (2) Weeks (14 calen-dar days) by 5:00 p.m. AFTER the last LSA meeting.

TO: icls@ICLSglobal.com

Qwik-Qwiz Answer: Answer: C

MPT Twelve Lock Lubricant is the longest lasting lubricant and penetrant available.

MPT Industries 6-B Hamilton Business Park

85 Franklin Road Dover, NJ 07801

Phone: 973-989-9220 Toll Free: 800-351-0605

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