Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:43 pm
My lock collection (5 totally counts as a collection)
Ok so i'm new to this place and dont really have anything worth adding, but either i'm navigating compleatly arseways (a definate possibility) or no one's responded to HallisChalmers "Your Lock Collections" post.
So i decided to get the ball rolling with my meger collection, and ask a couple of questions i didn't think were deserving of their own thred.
Ok First off,
My Am-Tech Padlock, my only dedicated paractice lock for the past few months. I bought it cos it was the only one i could afford in the local hardware shop. This lock could be picked with a smile, but when i started it made for decent exercise.
Then about a week or two ago I got myself a Yale nightlatch on ebay. I like this lock, its similar to the one on my shed door. It took 4 days to get it picked then in the space of about 10 minutes i picked it another couple of times, then i couldnt pick it again till the next day, then I broke it. It seems that when I rotated the barrel 180 degrees, and the pins popped into place on the worng side, I lost a pin, i think, and now a bit of spring is potruding into the barrel, too damaged to push back into place to allow rotation of the plug. If anyone can recomend a method of removing the C-clip from this lock, so I can dismantle it, I would appriciate it, as it seems Yale use a particularly awkward C-clip.
Also about two weeks ago my brother got a couple of locks off the maintenance guy where he works. A 5 lever mortice, which i havent tried to pick yet, but that i think will make an excellant candidtae for a plxiglass front.
The other is a euro-cylinder type with a thumbturn. I havent managed to pick this lock yet, despite hours of trying, it seems like i can get all 6 pins set, the lock has no key and i have no idea whats going on inside it, or even if it works, it also has a pretty restrictive key way. I have no idea what brand it is but it has TP3044 and 251 stamped on the side. If you can tell me anything about the lock it would help alot.
And then this week i decided to splash out on a couple of cutaway locks to expand my collection and beef up my practice a bit. I bought the night latch one as an example of a standard lock, that i tend to have trouble with, and the euro cylinder one because its 3 central pins are spools, although its still alot eaiser to pick than the nightlatch, which took me a day to crack even though its a cutaway. I got them from a UK based seller called 'locks-away',i think, on ebay, sicne he could well be on this site i'll take the opportunity to say 'cool locks'.
So there you have it, my modest lock collection in all its glory.
So i decided to get the ball rolling with my meger collection, and ask a couple of questions i didn't think were deserving of their own thred.
Ok First off,
My Am-Tech Padlock, my only dedicated paractice lock for the past few months. I bought it cos it was the only one i could afford in the local hardware shop. This lock could be picked with a smile, but when i started it made for decent exercise.
Then about a week or two ago I got myself a Yale nightlatch on ebay. I like this lock, its similar to the one on my shed door. It took 4 days to get it picked then in the space of about 10 minutes i picked it another couple of times, then i couldnt pick it again till the next day, then I broke it. It seems that when I rotated the barrel 180 degrees, and the pins popped into place on the worng side, I lost a pin, i think, and now a bit of spring is potruding into the barrel, too damaged to push back into place to allow rotation of the plug. If anyone can recomend a method of removing the C-clip from this lock, so I can dismantle it, I would appriciate it, as it seems Yale use a particularly awkward C-clip.
Also about two weeks ago my brother got a couple of locks off the maintenance guy where he works. A 5 lever mortice, which i havent tried to pick yet, but that i think will make an excellant candidtae for a plxiglass front.
The other is a euro-cylinder type with a thumbturn. I havent managed to pick this lock yet, despite hours of trying, it seems like i can get all 6 pins set, the lock has no key and i have no idea whats going on inside it, or even if it works, it also has a pretty restrictive key way. I have no idea what brand it is but it has TP3044 and 251 stamped on the side. If you can tell me anything about the lock it would help alot.
And then this week i decided to splash out on a couple of cutaway locks to expand my collection and beef up my practice a bit. I bought the night latch one as an example of a standard lock, that i tend to have trouble with, and the euro cylinder one because its 3 central pins are spools, although its still alot eaiser to pick than the nightlatch, which took me a day to crack even though its a cutaway. I got them from a UK based seller called 'locks-away',i think, on ebay, sicne he could well be on this site i'll take the opportunity to say 'cool locks'.
So there you have it, my modest lock collection in all its glory.
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Last edited by virul on Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:25 am, edited 1 time in total.
I likes my locks like I likes my women, loose and easy to manipulate.
The only am-tech locks I've seen were disc detainers so this is pretty interesting. I'll ask around and see what I can find out about em.
