LC manipulation: S&G 6700
There she is. The dial is AMSEC and had a full spindle, so I sawed it down to size after measuring and then rounded the spindle with my dremel.
Mounted and ready for action.
I have no idea what combo this one is, so I tried the standard ones I know and it wasn't any of those so I'm good to get crackin'.
A worrying first graph, no tasty grand canyons like I would like. But there are 3 low areas that are worthy of amplification. The first low and third low look the right size to be a gate, so I amped them first, and I think I tricked myself into seeing many gates hahaha. Bad start!
Well on to amp the second low section, the widest of all. And wouldn't you know it... I caught half the gate there, if I had started charting at 46 instead of 42 I would have missed it entirely. I then repositioned the wheel for more readings, TADA! I have a gate.
Now my literature told me to read a gate both spinning left AND spinning right, and then split the difference between the two to actually centre on the gate which has been an issue for me since the start. So I do that and I get interesting results. The LCP reads better if I am turning Right, and the RCP reads better if I am turning left. What's going on here? Well I must have parked a different wheel close to it's gate and I am hitting a different wheel... So I move the other wheels to a different spot and take readings again... same thing. What the.... Lock you are strange.
Ok I think I've got that gate pegged L42 and R45. Now normally I'd go after w2 but I hate running wheel 1 around, so I decided to try going after w1 next. Got lucky, didn't take long for a plummet to show itself. Not very wide though... I amplify it 1 increment at a time and I do Left and Right rotation. Seems like it's holding steady and it is deep so surely it's a gate as well. I make a plan to open the lock using my two known gates. On my next chart I list some numbers which I think will allow for the fence width and hopefully get the gates inline.
I only do the first try of w2 all around FULLY EXPECTING the lock to open but it didn't. I wondered if my gates were correct and thought about looking in the lock. Not yet, not yet, you lazy jerk. I decide to just check my gates, so I try w3 again and I still see the gate there, I do w1 again and still see the gate. So all should be well. I move on with slightly different w1 and w3 numbers, but this time I psych myself out by stopping once in a while to measure the contacts as I go around w2. Well of course I find a spot where the readings are getting worse and I stop what I'm doing and decide I've screwed something up and I'm not using the correct position for w3.
I decide to put w2 in the slot with w1 and try w3 again and see if maybe I was tricking myself the whole time.
Other than a little rotational mishap, everything was smooth and the same gate popped out again but at slightly a higher number than originally. Ok try w3 at 45 and w1 @ 83.5. This time I started w2 @ 80 and did the 10's (70 60 50 40 30 20 10 00 90 80) no joy, try the 5's, no joy. Damn it. Try the 2.5's...
Open: 83.5 - 17.5 - 45
Now right on page 2 when I did Right rotation of wheel 3 the centre of the gate was clearly at 45. But when I did left rotation it changed. Honestly I'm not sure what I was doing wrong here. Even if I had continued on page 3 trying different w1 and w3 numbers it still wouldn't have opened the lock, I just tried w3 @ 42, 43, 44, and it wouldn't have worked. Not even 44? That's cruel.
Other note, on page 1 I amplified an area that showed the gate on wheel 1 even though I was only working wheel 3 around, which is interesting. I think w3 had a low area there and I was seeing wheel 1. But the other spots I amped and saw gates were nothing at all.
Well there it is, my first try at my 6700. I have a video of me finishing it up but I'm kinda frustrated right now, so I'll worry about that later.
Questions, Comments, Jokes are welcome.
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