Sours Wild Lock Hunt

[mdc5150]

I saw this on a Coke machine today. It is the first of it's kind I have seen outside of pictures.

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[jfw]

They have those ^ locks on the soda machines at my Walmart, anyone know what they are?

[ARF-GEF]

I think it's Videx.

[jimylongs]

Cyberlock, but I believe their somehow related to Videx. The Cyberlocks are pretty neat, they provide allot of different features for access control, access times, auditing, logging, etc.

[GWiens2001]

Medeco Nextgen XT also looks like that. Probably all the same lock, just licensed to each vendor.

Gordon

[the picker]

found this on the front of my sisters high school

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not a lock but i thought id share anyway

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[Oldfast]

...... on an ammo cabinet at a local store......

[plugspin]

Medeco Nextgen XT also looks like that. Probably all the same lock, just licensed to each vendor.

Gordon

Videx's Cyberlock and Medeco's Nexgen compete in the same market but are completely different locks. I'm unsure who Medeco has been working with to develop the Nexgen though.

I find this very interesting. After much back and forth I'm feeling that is a Nexgen from the shape of the receptacle area around the contacts and the inner "surround" material. I have not seen a Nexgen with 3 independent contacts on the lock face before now (looking further I see this is now common though). Cyberlock can vary between 2 and 3 contacts depending on the application, but they always have a metal surround material around the contacts except for security guard checkpoint applications. In locks they always use a metal surround material. (And by contacts, I mean independent gold connectors - all models of Cyberlock and Nexgen have 3 conductivity paths between the key and lock, some models just rely on a case ground rather than a specific connector for ground).

[jupiter11d7]

Medeco on a laundry room change machine

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[Oldfast]

One of my favorite "In the Wild" locks. On the gate of Meijer's Garden Center.



It's just so refreshing to see an 'Oldie but Goodie' in use! Guess that's why I like it.

[chieflittlehorse]

I had a similar idea but I wanted to take pictures of security cameras. But I think it's a bad idea to show their locations and such. I am interested in learning about CCTV, so that is my reasoning behind my idea.

[LockManipulator]

I had a similar idea but I wanted to take pictures of security cameras. But I think it's a bad idea to show their locations and such. I am interested in learning about CCTV, so that is my reasoning behind my idea.

I'd be more interested in learning about bypassing that! lol

[GWiens2001]

Fgarci03 did a great post on how to bypass a camera/video security system a while back on another site. Remember it, fgarci?

Gordon

[LockManipulator]

Fgarci03 did a great post on how to bypass a camera/video security system a while back on another site. Remember it, fgarci?

Gordon

Really? I'd love to read about that!

[UnlockD]

WB padlock on an old U-Haul truck I unlocked today.