Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:44 am
Potent Secur S34
I got this nice dimple lock from a friend I helped replacing it with a new one, so I decided to disassemble and clean it. Here are some pictures of the lock disassembled. The first thing I did was to remove one of these two horseshoe shaped c-clip. It's spring steel and as soon as I pushed it with two small flat screwdrivers it literally bounced on the wall and disappear. I found it a few meters from the table...
Noticed the strange cam. I've never seen one like this. I'm not talking about the external shape, but the fact that it has a gear like hole and it contains a double springed thing. Here are some more pictures of it.
Even the pins are unusual. Both the key than the driver pins have a very tiny cone shaped end. I hope you notice it on these pictures, I tried to put three of them on this cone shaped side to show you how they don't stand up stright but are slightly laying on one side.
Also notice the first chamber pins (and chamber cap as you'll notice later) are magnetized and of a different material than the others. The ones on the right of the picture.
The cylinder has an anti snap wire on the bottom but no drill protection, except for the first row of pins as I said.
Notice the chambers are countermilled
A nice feature of this lock is its construction key, the red one. There's one construction ball on chamber 2 and a corresponding hole on the plug, so if you use the owner key the ball falls in the hole and the construction key no longer works. Since the chamber is always number 2 and the ball height is always the same, one person may open it anyway with the construction key. It's easy: just glue the construction ball in the second key bitting on and you're in.
Well, let me show you the picked lock...
Cheers
Noticed the strange cam. I've never seen one like this. I'm not talking about the external shape, but the fact that it has a gear like hole and it contains a double springed thing. Here are some more pictures of it.
Even the pins are unusual. Both the key than the driver pins have a very tiny cone shaped end. I hope you notice it on these pictures, I tried to put three of them on this cone shaped side to show you how they don't stand up stright but are slightly laying on one side.
Also notice the first chamber pins (and chamber cap as you'll notice later) are magnetized and of a different material than the others. The ones on the right of the picture.
The cylinder has an anti snap wire on the bottom but no drill protection, except for the first row of pins as I said.
Notice the chambers are countermilled
A nice feature of this lock is its construction key, the red one. There's one construction ball on chamber 2 and a corresponding hole on the plug, so if you use the owner key the ball falls in the hole and the construction key no longer works. Since the chamber is always number 2 and the ball height is always the same, one person may open it anyway with the construction key. It's easy: just glue the construction ball in the second key bitting on and you're in.
Well, let me show you the picked lock...
Cheers
