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Posted: **Thu Jan 01, 2015 7:51 pm**

Happy New Year Everyone I thought I would start the year off right and had the time today so here is a cutaway

(I dropped key pin #4 on the shop 4 so for the time being the chamber is empty)

Posted: **Thu Jan 01, 2015 8:11 pm**

I like the style but I want to see key pin rotation.

Posted: **Thu Jan 01, 2015 8:22 pm**

AW, nice work. My only question, why not just mill straight slots from the center of the pins all the way instead of the offsets that you did?

Posted: **Thu Jan 01, 2015 8:24 pm**

I wanted to try something different

I cant wait till I get digital readouts, calculating backlash is a PITA

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:36 am**

oldbiscuit wrote:AW, nice work. My only question, why not just mill straight slots from the center of the pins all the way instead of the offsets that you did?

Having the angle and taking out more material makes it easier to see the pins. It also allows more light in.

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2015 3:11 pm**

flywheel wrote:I like the style but I want to see key pin rotation.

like this ?

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2015 5:27 pm**

Very interesting cutaway A_w. Nice one.

I read somewhere once there's a reason those springs are wound like that, i.e. with the centre and end coils tight together. I can't remember why now. Any Medeco cognoscenti know?

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2015 5:32 pm**

I am guessing it helps prevent the spring from getting crushed from compression or helps prevent it getting caught on the shear line if a set of pins is short.

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2015 5:58 pm**

Tangle Resistant Springs
Is what I know them as.

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:01 pm**

I think its a tangle resistant spring.

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:02 pm**

looks like jharvee is a faster typer than I

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:12 pm**

Thanks guys! ''Tangle Resistant Springs'' rings a bell. If I remember right, it's to stop a bag fulla springs - you got it - tangling up.

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 8:13 pm**

That is really quite nice. Was pleased to Snowyboy's response on your cutaways, AW.

Gordon

Posted: **Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:10 am**

GWiens2001 wrote:That is really quite nice. Was pleased to Snowyboy's response on your cutaways, AW.

Gordon

yeah I was too, (with Snowyboy's response) I am Very happy with this lock as it stands now. (once I replace the missing pin it is done)

Now I just have to find my next lock to cut :akimbo:

Posted: **Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:14 am**

Deadlock wrote:Very interesting cutaway A_w. Nice one.

I read somewhere once there's a reason those springs are wound like that, i.e. with the centre and end coils tight together. I can't remember why now. Any Medeco cognoscenti know?

all the medeco spring I have in this style are fatter in the middle so when you compress them they don't crush they almost telescope.

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