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MeddlingKid

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Post Sun May 26, 2024 10:30 pm

LaGard 3330

Well, I have the unfortunate task of trying to open a LaGard 3330. I have identified the right contact point somewhere between 5-6 and the left contact point somewhere just under 99. I graphed the right contact point and came up with a chart. Looks like a high point at 26 and another range of high points from 36-44. I have read through many threads but am a little lost on where I should take things from here. Would very much appreciate any suggestions from posters here experienced with this lock.
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Cheesehead

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Post Sun May 26, 2024 10:58 pm

Re: LaGard 3330

MeddlingKid wrote:Well, I have the unfortunate task of trying to open a LaGard 3330. I have identified the right contact point somewhere between 5-6 and the left contact point somewhere just under 99. I graphed the right contact point and came up with the chart below. Looks like a high point at 26 and another range of high points from 36-44. I have read through many threads but am a little lost on where I should take things from here. Would very much appreciate any suggestions from posters here experienced with this lock.


Unfortunate task? If it's unfortunate, why not hire a locksmith to open your safe? Or what is the task exactly? Maybe tell us a bit about your safe/situation, I'm kind of curious now haha.
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Post Mon May 27, 2024 8:00 am

Re: LaGard 3330

I say unfortunate task because this is my first lock manipulation and based on what I have read here these can be a bit of a challenge. But I do like puzzles and am excited to solve this. Would prefer to open it myself vs calling a locksmith.
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Post Mon May 27, 2024 10:16 pm

Re: LaGard 3330

MeddlingKid wrote:I say unfortunate task because this is my first lock manipulation and based on what I have read here these can be a bit of a challenge. But I do like puzzles and am excited to solve this. Would prefer to open it myself vs calling a locksmith.


I'd take a look through oldfast safe chronicles here and get used to parking wheels. Then park stuff around 92 probably.
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MeddlingKid

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Post Tue May 28, 2024 12:23 pm

Re: LaGard 3330

I looked through the Oldfast chronicles and I am attempting to use the high/low approach, but will need to determine which points to start with.
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MeddlingKid

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Post Wed May 29, 2024 1:44 pm

Re: LaGard 3330

I have tried parking wheels at 90, 92, 93 without any gate signature or further low points worth investigating. I may start from scratch and do another AWL chart, find the low points, and start trying to isolate wheels again.
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Post Wed May 29, 2024 7:21 pm

Re: LaGard 3330

MeddlingKid wrote:I have tried parking wheels at 90, 92, 93 without any gate signature or further low points worth investigating. I may start from scratch and do another AWL chart, find the low points, and start trying to isolate wheels again.


The graphs looked flat whichever wheel you placed there, or did some of them still have a shape? All succeeding graphs being flat is very unexpected. I would suspect if so that you did something incorrectly in your previous graph. Perhaps rescanning is best
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Post Thu May 30, 2024 12:18 am

Re: LaGard 3330

Cheesehead wrote:
MeddlingKid wrote:I have tried parking wheels at 90, 92, 93 without any gate signature or further low points worth investigating. I may start from scratch and do another AWL chart, find the low points, and start trying to isolate wheels again.


The graphs looked flat whichever wheel you placed there, or did some of them still have a shape? All succeeding graphs being flat is very unexpected. I would suspect if so that you did something incorrectly in your previous graph. Perhaps rescanning is best


They were all pretty flat - Mostly within 1/4 of an increment. I re-ran the AWL graph and saw a very slight dip that I then ran a high/low test on which pointed toward wheel 2. But then when I tried to determine wheel 3, the graph was again flat (within 1/4 of an increment).

What am I doing incorrectly as I would have expected more variation.
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Post Fri May 31, 2024 5:59 am

Re: LaGard 3330

MeddlingKid wrote:
Cheesehead wrote:
MeddlingKid wrote:I have tried parking wheels at 90, 92, 93 without any gate signature or further low points worth investigating. I may start from scratch and do another AWL chart, find the low points, and start trying to isolate wheels again.


The graphs looked flat whichever wheel you placed there, or did some of them still have a shape? All succeeding graphs being flat is very unexpected. I would suspect if so that you did something incorrectly in your previous graph. Perhaps rescanning is best


They were all pretty flat - Mostly within 1/4 of an increment. I re-ran the AWL graph and saw a very slight dip that I then ran a high/low test on which pointed toward wheel 2. But then when I tried to determine wheel 3, the graph was again flat (within 1/4 of an increment).

What am I doing incorrectly as I would have expected more variation.


Mostly within a quarter of an increment, meaning some stuff wasn’t? I wouldn’t mind seeing that. Hard to tell what’s happening with so little information.

Until you find a gate the choices to make now will be much more subtle.
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Post Sat Jun 01, 2024 9:15 am

Re: LaGard 3330

Here's what I've done the last couple days. First, I re-ran my AWL chart:

AWL.png


I then tried to confirm potential gates between 9-10, 64-72, and 80-86. To do that I parked 9,10, 67, and 83.5 at W1, W2, W3. Here's what I found:

Starting with 9 and 10. Although the graph wasn't going that low, it seemed to demonstrate a gate signature on wheel 1. So, I ran high/low tests and confirmed that wheel 1 was driving the pattern (contact area was widest on wheel 1 when running the high-low tests).
AL-9-9.png

AL-10-10.png


I then parked wheel 1 at 9.5 and isolated wheels 2 and 3 to see whether any additional gates could be identified. Nothing is really popping out here from what I can tell, though when running wheel 2 I only went in increments of 5 (rather than 2).
9.5-9_.5-AL_.png

9.5-AR-9_.5_.png


I looked at 69 and only thing slightly interesting was possible gate signature on wheel 1, or is this just random fluctuation given it's only changing 1/10 of an increment and goes back down again after the possible gate?
AL-69-69.png



I then decided to check whether I could get a gate signature on 83 or 84. When I ran 83-AR-83 and 84-AR-84, I saw something peculiar. Somewhat of an odd gate signature, but the lowest point I've seen yet in my graphing. When running high/low tests on 83 and 84 they did NOT show on wheel 2 but contact area was consistent across all wheels. What does it mean that 83-81-83 and 84-82-84 are giving me my lowest right contact point readings so far?
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Post Sat Jun 01, 2024 3:32 pm

Re: LaGard 3330

MeddlingKid wrote:Here's what I've done the last couple days. First, I re-ran my AWL chart:

I then tried to confirm potential gates between 9-10, 64-72, and 80-86. To do that I parked 9,10, 67, and 83.5 at W1, W2, W3. Here's what I found:

Starting with 9 and 10. Although the graph wasn't going that low, it seemed to demonstrate a gate signature on wheel 1. So, I ran high/low tests and confirmed that wheel 1 was driving the pattern (contact area was widest on wheel 1 when running the high-low tests).


I probably would have tested gates by parking at something like 90 and running the other wheel through the area, in isolation. Partly because the contact area seems in the way a little, although it's not too bad.

I then parked wheel 1 at 9.5 and isolated wheels 2 and 3 to see whether any additional gates could be identified. Nothing is really popping out here from what I can tell, though when running wheel 2 I only went in increments of 5 (rather than 2).


I don't think doing increments of 5 is warranted at this point, also I just don't believe in it. Yes it's possible for numbers to be set this way, although I've never personally encountered it (although I know people who have). I just think it's a low percentage thing to spend graphing time on

The other thing...why are you not taking readings in the forbidden zone? The last wheel isn't supposed to be set there. Doesn't mean it isn't, or that wheels didn't shift, or a most useful area isn't there. Test all the area of the wheel.


I looked at 69 and only thing slightly interesting was possible gate signature on wheel 1, or is this just random fluctuation given it's only changing 1/10 of an increment and goes back down again after the possible gate?



It showed up twice. If it only showed up once I might discount it, but this is twice back to back. That might be something. And I know I said that about 5's and 10's, but would you look at that, it looks like it's centred on 70. I might park that wheel there and see if you can't get a better reading on the remaining wheel. Or at least confirm your gate at 9-10


I then decided to check whether I could get a gate signature on 83 or 84. When I ran 83-AR-83 and 84-AR-84, I saw something peculiar. Somewhat of an odd gate signature, but the lowest point I've seen yet in my graphing. When running high/low tests on 83 and 84 they did NOT show on wheel 2 but contact area was consistent across all wheels. What does it mean that 83-81-83 and 84-82-84 are giving me my lowest right contact point readings so far?


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83 area is looking not bad, although I though 90 looked better. Check out both those areas maybe?

I'm confused by your approach, why not run wheels 2 and 3 together after parking W1? Or did you just not show that graph?

I hope some of this helps, sorry it's a little scatterbrained
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Post Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:11 pm

Re: LaGard 3330

Forbidden zone - That's a great suggestion and I will start going through all numbers on all tests going forward.

69 - Given that this potential gate showed up on wheel 1, how would I test if I think I might already have a gate at 9.5 on wheel 1? Should I try testing 70-X-X, where X = same number on wheels 2 and 3, across the entire dial?

83 - What should I do to check these out further?

How I tested - I may have taken an incorrect approach, but when parking W1 at 9.5 for example. I would test 9.5-9.5-AL where AL = every 2 numbers on the dial (though I do need to look at the forbidden zone as noted above). Are you saying I should have tested 9.5-X-X where X = the same numbers for wheels 2 and 3, going through the dial to see if any gates appear (and if so, doing high-low testing to determine which wheel it's on)?

I sincerely appreciate your suggestions. I definitely need a more structured plan of attack as I tend to get easily distracted chasing what seems like a potential lead.

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