MANDELBROT27 wrote:I dont really understand the concept.A cutaway padlock is for beginners to practice and understand the inners of a lock. (In the context of sport lock picking) So why would you want to spend £72 on a practice lock ?? You can buy the ultimate practice lock from the shop for £18.
For £72 you could buy a FEDERAL 730P or a CHUBB CONQUEST 1K22
Dont know if other members would agree but this site is about helping each other out, not making a killing.Thats why the shop is so cheap! Id stick to Ebay or maybe wait for EZpicking to return if all your interested in is making money from locks.
Hands up
i suppose £20 is not bad but id still go for one made for the job for the reasons stated in your Ebay advert
Errr no mate, I don't know where you plucked these assumptions that I am in it for the money from? Why are you making an issue out of it anyway, is it because you are not interested in cutaways? Because if you're not, then why are you trying to pursuad people that buying cutaways is bad?
You say you can go and buy a Fed or a Chubb lock for the price someone paid for myAbloy cutaway.... but yo uare missing the point, they won't be cutaway will they? Not until someone like me comes along, buys said padlocks, cuts them away and offers them for sale to someone who might actually want a cutaway lock to show friends or on display if they are a collector.
As for 'I thought this site was for helping each other out' What do you want me to do anyway? Buy the locks, spend my valuable time dismantling them, then spend more time measuring for sometimes weeks on end to get the right cuts, then put them all back together, highly polish them, and give them away for free?
I think i've done enough for the community with my comprehensive HS breakdows of cylinders people could only lust for because of the costs.
And for the benefit of the people here (baring in mind I am new here and havn't had a chance to speak to many people yet) here are a few to tide you through until I can 'help you out' as Mr MANDELBROT apparently expects me and anyone joining the site to do when in fact he has probably not offered anything constructive whilst he's been here!
KESO Style breakdown
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1882/k ... breakd.jpgASSA 6000 Twin breakdown
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/927/assatwin6000.jpgPeople who arn't interested in locks don't do stuff like that ^ or do they? I don't know.... but since you think I am in it just for the money I might not bother sharing my material with people in the future.... just incase someone like you has a problem with it.
Anyway, please, just go away if you have nothing constructive to add to my thread because you evidently havn't thought about this have you?
P.s That second cutaway euro cylinder is the cheapest most nastiest peice of sh*t you can probably aquire for free because they are that rubbish. Go and pester the bloke on Ebay selling that crap for £25 average instead of giving someone like me who isn't afraid to adventure into cutting away insurance graded locks.
p.p.s If you'd have actually read my advert in full you would have seen that I stated the Abloys would be a nice 'COLLECTORS' lock, not one to 'practice picking' on (like was said in the OTHER advert for the Abus padlocks).... what sort of imbesil would want one of the most secure lock designs to date to practice picking on when they will almost certainly not have the tool (which costs £300) to pick it.
Think before you speak in future, it might stop you looking like a jelous prat.
Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:52 am 
