Medeco m3 Gutted

[taurus420]

This section has nothing for Medeco's so I decided to gut one of my Medeco m3 Padlocks so people can take a look inside & see how this thing is made. If nothing it's a good visual aid...

Enjoy

[aarpazthelockpicker]

do the pins in the m3 need to be rotated

[ToolyMcgee]

Not in that one. No slider, no chisel pins, must be a bilevel cylinder. I hadn't seen the guts of one yet, thanks taurus!

[the lockpickkid]

No chisel pins or sidebar?? I haven't seen one of these, are they hard to pick?

[HallisChalmers]

Thanks for that post Taurus. Good job.

[barbarian]

Medeco Bi-level. Not to be confused with the Bi-axial. The Bi-axial lock has the rotating pins and the fore-aft spacing.

They actually call this the M3 bilevel on their site. It was made to take the same keyway as the M3 for key control, but that's about all the security you get. There is no sidebar and the pins don't need to rotate, so I bet it would be easy to pick. It's designed to be used on low security doors within a higher security area. The M3 keyway was supposedly introduced to extend the patent protection and prevent "no name" key blanks being produced.

http://www.medeco.com/products/products ... ry_ID=268&

[magician59]

Medeco Bi-level. Not to be confused with the Bi-axial. The Bi-axial lock has the rotating pins and the fore-aft spacing.

They actually call this the M3 bilevel on their site. It was made to take the same keyway as the M3 for key control, but that's about all the security you get. There is no sidebar and the pins don't need to rotate, so I bet it would be easy to pick. It's designed to be used on low security doors within a higher security area. The M3 keyway was supposedly introduced to extend the patent protection and prevent "no name" key blanks being produced.

http://www.medeco.com/products/products ... ry_ID=268&

And all these years, I thought the word was, "Bi-sexual"!

[taurus420]

I also have a Biaxial padlock at home I plan to gut and photograph for this section once I get back home from this trip... I'm sending one of them to .45 since he asked me nicely. I hope he will make a video when he gets it and posts it also in this section once he gets it picked...

The m3 is still tricky to pick it has 3 pins, the driver pin, a small middle pin in between the driver and key pins. Makes it a challenging pick, but nothing a skilled picker can't handle

The Padlock to the far right is the m3 I gutted the rest are Biaxial's

[uklockpicker]

I noticed the images had gone from this medeco section, here is one to keep the pictures going plus an excellent blog/web site,

http://mitchcapper.com/gallery/folder/F ... %20BiLevel

[bouncer965]

whatsthe fuction of the small silver coloured thing above each spring.....is this to do with setting the sidebar?????? Also whats the half moon type metl for? Excuse my technical terminology

[ToolyMcgee]

whatsthe fuction of the small silver coloured thing above each spring.....is this to do with setting the sidebar?????? Also whats the half moon type metl for? Excuse my technical terminology

The grub screws that hold in each individual pinstack, and half moon stainless anti-drill inserts.