old abus lever padlock

[femurat]

Yesterday I've been to a sort of flea market, and got this nice padlock with one key for just 2 euro

To open the lock two levers have to be removed from the shackle retaining hole, there's no way of shimming it. I must rotate the key two times, the first time one of these levers slides away, with the second turn the other one slides away too and the shackle is free to rotate.
From the key shape I guess that a L bent wire could be enough to pick this lock, but I still have to try.

Cheers

[averagejoe]

Hmm, interesting lock. Great price as well.

[ImSchatten360]

That is a great price for such a nice look!
I have quite a few Abus locks but not one of those.
Please pick it!

[femurat]

Picked This padlock has, starting from the front, one spring, one slider/lever, a second slider/lever and a second spring. I observed the levers and springs movements while using the key. With the first turn the key lifts the first spring and then moves the first lever. With the second turn the key lifts the last spring and moves the second lever.
Each spring locks its lever, lifting the spring allow me to move the lever left and right.
I used a tok tension wrench to lift the first spring and a hook to move the first lever right. Easy. Then I had to insert the tok tension wrench to the bottom of the keyway to reach the last spring, this was not very difficult, but the first one was a lot easier since I could clearly see it. While keeping the spring up I used the hook again to move the second lever. At this point the lock was picked.

Cheers

[femurat]

I found the big brother of the little old abus. Paid it 5 euro without a key at another flea market.
The mechanism was similar to the smaller one so I shouldn't have had any problem picking it. In reality it was a bit difficult due to the rusty levers and maybe high and low bittings. The difficult part was to lift the spring/lever to the correct height before throwing the bolts. I managed to pick open and close it a few times with these two bent wires, but a skeleton key to be used as a tension wrench would have made the difference here. Not to mention a 3 in 1 pick.
If I find an old key that enters this keyway I'll make a key for this old beauty.

Cheers