In my last post I said I would brute force the remaining number which my confusing notes lead me to believe was NOT 67.5. SO I reviewed all my notes for hints as to what I had done and why to try and solidify the order of the numbers.
I thought I had the order as
X 44 26 so I tried every 2 increments of the whole dial for wheel 1 and it never opened.
So after going around in circles many times, putting it down, coming back to it, getting confused by my own notes, I made some progress.
After revisiting my old notes I was looking at some numbers which I then amplified
26 44 65. I'm not sure why I wrote the word "nope" by 67.5 but that made me disregard it pretty much all day.
I also noticed that I never lo tested 42.5 from my second round of AWL. I also never test 67.5 hi or lo for whatever reason.
I hi lo test everything again, but the 26 and the 65 seem to both be on wheel3.
Well, I guess the 2nd and 3rd wheels are close in shape so they both give better readings on the other wheels when they are dialed in.
So I'm not sure which order they go in or even if they are right, but these are the numbers I continued with.
I figured 44 would be first, since 65 and 26 both read on wheel 3.
so you can see on my last page I srarted in the center of the page and went clockwise filling it with data... Some hi lo testing to get the order, then all the test combos I was trying.
These were all combos I had tried before so now I started varying the numbers a bit, I would add one here, take one away there, dialed a few options for each combination I actually wrote down. I tried the 44 - 65 combos all first, adding and taking away a bit.
An old chart I did pegged 44 on wheel 2, so I tried combos using 44 or variations of it on wheel 2 with no luck.
I hadn't tried the 26 in the middle, so I tried that next. + or - a number or two on each one.
I wrote down 43 - 26 - 63 which didn't work but two or three test combos after that I was wildly spinning and *Schlunk* it slid open.
Great! but I don't even remember what I dialed? Oh well I'm close now. I look at the page, re lock the lock, then spin again + or - some making note of each one.
OPEN:
43 - 24.5 - 63Actual combo : 43 - 24 - 62
Oh man what a hassle. I really had given up hope but figured I better do my due diligence and try all the possible combos with the info I had. That process lead me to check the order of my numbers so I could brute force, which lead me to a gap in hi lo testing from last week and that put me right on path to get it open.
This morning I wrote "I'm reaching but 43 looks like it's on wheel 1". Yes it sure was but I didn't have enough evidence to stick with it.
44-26-65 I tried this afternoon. So close! but not close enough.
Even on graph 1 , which held F%$& all of points of interest to me at the time, I can see the dip at 27, and one at 44 . I was so blindsided by my completely messed up readings in the contact area section that I ignored all else.
Graph number two the readings were everywhere and when I really doubted something I went back and read it again and charted it on the same graph. That was a BIG mistake. Looking at it now I have NO clue what happened there.
Graph 3 - Back on the right track after taking a couple days off the lock. We see 2 of the combo numbers show up here. On the back of that sheet, I show hi lo test for those 2 numbers ( 42.5 and 27.5) I did the bare minimum hi lo testing here, when 27.5 read on the last wheel I inked it in and did hi test only on 42.5 which showed it was on wheel 2. In reality this test only showed that 42.5 is AHEAD in the combo of 27.5.
I tried 0-100 on wheel 1 without luck, then became spiteful at the lock and put it on the shelf for a week.
When I returned to it I figured I better amplify the numbers that I thought were for sure. At the time I wasn't doing this cause I doubted them, I was trying to warm up my touch for later tests. But Amping everything really let me peg the numbers a little closer to the actually combo. What I want to look at is the typical dip in the charts where the gates were, normally I would take the middle number as the actual combo number (example low spot is 40-50, then the gate would be 45 I would assume) but with this lock it seems the gate is closer to the beginning (40-50 is low, gate is at 41-42) .
Right now I never want to spin this lock again.
I'm sure tomorrow I'll be pumped for a new combo.
So there it is in unedited, unadulterated, near as I can get to real time cracking. I appreciate all posts. Everyone is welcome to question or comment.
Cheers and Beers.
LC
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