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Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:37 pm**

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... :mrgreen:

Enjoy

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:50 pm**

do the pins in the m3 need to be rotated

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:54 pm**

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!

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:52 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:13 pm**

Thanks for that post Taurus. Good job.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:02 pm**

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&

Posted: **Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:40 am**

barbarian wrote: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"!

Posted: **Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:45 am**

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 :mrgreen:

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

Posted: **Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:13 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:20 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:59 pm**

bouncer965 wrote: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.

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