Regarding Simple Lever Locks - A Complete Guide by illusion

[samfishers]

ill just add a simple thing, I do have A 8 LEVER lock!!!!! yes! yes! 8 lever padlock

[illusion]

i have seen this type of lock before i beleave... do they have to have warded keys?

No - The warded ones I've seen have mostly been to create master keyed systems.

ill just add a simple thing, I do have A 8 LEVER lock!!!!! yes! yes! 8 lever padlock

OMFG?! Like, no way?!

Sorry, I'm just messing around hehe.

Have you picked it yet? Do you have some more info, pictures, videos?

[steve0527]

Thanks.. your guide really helped me with my lock, really good post.

[spoolspanker]

great post illusion. that was truely a great read!

[mr_chris79]

Well thats the third time ive read your guide Illusion and ive got to say you did an excellent job with a very easy to follow text and picture combo, now...how about some PM mortice coaching???? i keep trying my era every now and then when i get bored of padlocks.

[noelgrassy]

Illusion,
Thanks for your superb guide. I haven't encountered these locks yet but I've
asked my local locksmith to let me know if one becomes available for sale.
He's been very helpful with spool pins and some rim cylinder Medeco locks
at a nice price.

[I'm Open!]

Wow, I don't think I'll ever have to try to pick a lock like that. Good thing to be informed though, I think I saw a few of those at my school....

[peejay52]

thanks illusion.. I've read and reread your post several times...
with regard to the simple picks etc I stripped a cheap umbrella from a pound shop which has stainless spokes plus other bits that I used for making picks too. Also the slider thingy served as a plug follower when repinning a rim lock....All for a pound he he

[ctark]

Thank you for this awesome tutorial, it has actually been of help to me.

[peterwn]

My maiden post on lockpicking101.

This particular type of lock was used on some 1960's vintage high schools in my area. The non-masterkeyed version came with 36 differs off the 3 levers and no wards. At least the end cut or next one in has to be 'blank' position to operate the bolt properly. This was later boosted to 100 differs or so I think possibly by using levers of different thicknesses. The masterkeyed version had 3 differs off levers and 12 off wards, giving 36 total differs which were available as pre-cut keys. I suspect there were two masterkey differs, I did see one and it was bitted 01210 and was roughly 'Y' shaped being a skeleton key with respect to ward cuts.

This lock was unusual compared with similar Yale and Legge products. They also used wards to augment differs but used a 'master lever' arrangement (where a lever when lifted carries other levers with it) which made them no better than one or possibly two lever locks.

[James.]

Wow, really conclusive and informative, awesome guide mate.

[Theist17]

Hey, thanks for the guide. Without it, I definitely could not have gotten the grade I did on my oral presentation for my English Lit class last semester. I ended up creating a few large-scale model locks, and one of them was a simple lever lock . Without this guide, I'd have never gotten it done. Thanks for the GPA boost, illusion!

[phishtaco]

Nice guide, very easy to understand. Thank you!

[TaraDumfrey]

Overwhelmed by the amount of well-written, comprehensive guides there are on this site, particularly yours, illusion. Pick-making is the part of lockpicking I'm most interested in, I'm going to start later today with a pair of pliers, this guide and some bicycle spokes.

I can post the results if anyone would be interested?

[MBI]

Overwhelmed by the amount of well-written, comprehensive guides there are on this site, particularly yours, illusion. Pick-making is the part of lockpicking I'm most interested in, I'm going to start later today with a pair of pliers, this guide and some bicycle spokes.

I can post the results if anyone would be interested?

We love pictures, by all means, please post what you make.
I'd suggest starting a new thread in here viewforum.php?f=4 when you do.

Please note that our server isn't set up to host photos so you'll need to upload them on a server elsewhere.
I'd suggest one of the many free photohosting sites, for example: Photobucket.
Once you upload them there, you can post the direct links to the pictures in your thread.

Welcome to the forum.