Medeco Protector Model 50

[HT4]

I came across these for what think was a good price recently, and thought I would share the find. If anyone has knowledge of these, including age and approx value, I would appreciate addition info. 4 of the 6 locks are in like new condition.

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[Mitchell s]

Hey there , I saw these on eBay a few days ago too, I probably would have bought them, but 15 pounds of locks sent to Australia would have doubled their cost. I'm glad a fellow enthusiast picked them up though.

I don't know a massive amount about them, only that they are a model that is now out of production and I believe have a bi axial core. You don't see them come up that often but they are around. Check out Macgng's collection thread if you want to see a real stash of Medeco padlocks

As for value they are only of any real value to collectors, as there are newer, more modern and more secure versions out there. I think those locks were a good price at $125 but given that the listing lasted 4 days before you snapped them up shows you the relative demand.

Nice score though, hopefully you can pick them all

*edit* check out this thread, a bunch of other members have posted their picks and there is also a video

viewtopic.php?f=90&t=8603

[jeffmoss26]

Looks like a Classic cylinder, at least from the pics in the other thread. Nice find!
Medeco now makes a Protector II padlock, http://www.medeco.com/en/site/medeco/Pr ... tId=915470

[HT4]

Hey there , I saw these on eBay a few days ago too, I probably would have bought them, but 15 pounds of locks sent to Australia would have doubled their cost. I'm glad a fellow enthusiast picked them up though.

I don't know a massive amount about them, only that they are a model that is now out of production and I believe have a bi axial core. You don't see them come up that often but they are around. Check out Macgng's collection thread if you want to see a real stash of Medeco padlocks

As for value they are only of any real value to collectors, as there are newer, more modern and more secure versions out there. I think those locks were a good price at $125 but given that the listing lasted 4 days before you snapped them up shows you the relative demand.

Nice score though, hopefully you can pick them all

*edit* check out this thread, a bunch of other members have posted their picks and there is also a video

viewtopic.php?f=90&t=8603

Thanks -- I came across this thread while doing regular Google searches on this lock. Between that and a YouTube video on disassembly, its about the only thing I could find on the internet about them. I wonder why the model numbers were so far off. In any case, they really didn't shed much light on age or value, which is what I was most interested in.

It may be that later versions have bi axial cores, but these appear to be original... I base that only on eyeballing the spacing of the key cuts. Of course, I don't know that much about Medecos, so I could be wrong.