Schlage Lock Company 34-006 # 6 Primus Finger Pin

The 34-006 is the #6 finger pin for Schlage Primus cylinders. Primus cylinders use a second, side-milled track on the key that a finger pin reads in addition to the normal top pin stack, and the finger pin is the moving part that follows that side bitting. Locksmiths order these by number when repinning or rekeying a Primus cylinder to a different sidebar code, or when replacing a worn or lost pin during service.

No. Finger pins only exist in Primus cylinders, which read a side bitting on the key in addition to the top pin stack. A conventional Schlage cylinder has no finger pin chamber and no sidebar for it to work against, so the 34-006 has nothing to do in one. For a standard cylinder you want ordinary bottom pins and top drivers, not this part.

Usually yes. The number on a finger pin is its depth, and a Primus side bitting rarely calls for the same depth in every finger chamber, so a full repin normally pulls several numbers from the range. The 34-006 covers the #6 depth only. Order the pin numbers your side code calls out rather than assuming one number will do the cylinder.

The 34-006 finger pin ships as a screw pack, so you get a bagged quantity of the #6 pin rather than one loose pin. That is how Schlage supplies pinning components, and it is the sensible way to buy them: a locksmith rebuilding several Primus cylinders on a keying job burns through one number faster than the others.

Not for this part. Finger pins live inside the cylinder plug where nothing is visible, so there is no finish choice on the 34-006 and no matching to do against your lever or escutcheon. Schlage does make many parts finish specific, so that caution is worth carrying to the trim and cylinder housing you order alongside it, but the pinning components themselves are ordered by number only.

Physically the work is standard bench work, but Primus is a restricted, patented system: the side bitting is cut on controlled key blanks and the sidebar codes are held by Schlage and its authorized dealers. If you are not set up as a Primus dealer you can service and reassemble a cylinder with these pins, but you will not be able to originate new keys to a new side code. Confirm you have the key blanks and the side code in hand before you pull the cylinder apart.

Stainless steel. That matters more in a Primus than in a standard cylinder, because the finger pin rides against the sidebar as well as the plug and takes wear on two surfaces every time the key turns. Stainless also holds up in exterior cylinders and in coastal or wash-down openings where a plated pin would corrode and start dragging.

Commercial. Primus is Schlage's high security, patented key control platform, and the cylinders it goes into are what get specified on institutional and multi-family openings where key duplication has to be controlled. A property manager holding a Primus key system is running commercial grade key control, and this is a service component of that system, not a homeowner part.