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Hey Neilau, I hope you are prepared to get you ass handed back to you this coming summer!

The security ratings make me laugh, I went looking for the highest rated Master lock and it sucked ass. 10/10? Not at all.[/quote]


Hux.

Sorry, What have I missed?

Seems that you are agreeing with me.

I've been wrong before -- will be again.

As a famous Australian politician once said "Please explain"

Yes, I am agreeing with you, they're nonsense.

Next summer you lot will be in our back yard, time to re-take the ashes (not that they actually ever leave Lords, lol).

Ahhhh......... I see.

THAT time of year.

The "Fat Lady" is just warming up.

For the benefit of our American, European and other friends --- we are talking Cricket (not a brand of Chinese lock).

There are a few of us on the other side of the pond who are familiar with, and have even played, cricket.

Gordon

Picked these over the last couple of days:
Ilco mortise with RB keyway from macgng (tricky keyway for me approx 2 hrs), An American A1100 from locksportsupply.com (pure fluke, still working on a legit pick. Gutted it and it has 5 driver spools and 5 serrated kp's),


And a Papaiz (Made in Brazil) that was tossed by a local locksmith that had a broken spring at #1( What a nightmare that was!) I spent probably close to 15 hours on this lock before success. I decided to drill it and gut it for a practice lock and found 5 spools of standard size). Notice I screwed up drilling out #5 (but salvagable) that should teach me to use the drillpress next time.


ETA: the EC75 is also from macgng that's my present work in progress (need to make a better dimple pick for this one , Damn that's a tight keyway). The prybar under the picks is a homebrew copy of a sparrows mic'd at .038 and works well but a little crude.

Nice! That ilco is a Russwin D1 keyway which can be tricky.

This EC75 was fun I bet hp still - remembers this lock also I think all spool on this ! why a 6 on the abus scale - good luck

One of the first locks I got to play with. They can be raked, or spp'ed. I have two of these, keyed alike, and this particular one has always been a problem.
It'll only pick pins up, so I suspect one of the springs is broken.

The first of the new (to me, second hand really) locks has given up

That keyway :O

That keyway is nicely twisted. Just like my mind.

Gordon

Morning coffee with a side of lock

Decided to have a go at this mornings twin (differently keyed)

Latest one on the left, this mornings lock on the right.

Not the most friendly keyways. Well done!

Marcel showing off his euros. Nice job mate all I picked was one of my Arrow kiks.. still in a slump.

no pics necessary