Padlock in the oven!

[Wrenchman]

My padlock is in the oven right now, I am trying to get the pins and springs out, do you have any idea of how long time it needs, before I put it in icewater?



Wrenchman

[Eyes_Only]

Wow, thats a new approach to taking a padlock apart. Hope nothing blows apart when you dunk it in ice water.

[blackfoot]

wait til the pins zip by your ear.......... ............just drop and run fast

[Wrenchman]

LMAO

I took it out after about 5 then 10 then 15 then 30min. nothing!

After about 30min. it sounded really funny in the ice-water, but nothing!

Checked the pins and picked it after, its ok!

Anyway I thought I heard about this tecnic, must have missed out on something!



Wrenchman

[hesevil]

If you have your heart set on doing it that way, you need to bake it longer. I would say minimum 2 hours. If you do it this way, be careful about the pins. It would really depend on the type of metal and total Heat of the object, but they could eject with some extreme force (though unlikely).

It would be easier to extract the pins or drill them out, not to mention safer.

-Matt

[Gordon Airporte]

Uh, what temperature are you baking it at? At a certain point it should reach equilibrium with the oven temp and it just won't get any hotter no matter how long you leave it in. If it's not working you just need to get it hotter.

[bumber]

Where/how did you hear this would work? I think if anything it will just cause it to corrode after you fail to get the pins out, because when you heat metal it breaks down the structure of it causeing it to absorb more Oxygen than it normaly would. And also what is supposed to happen? Do they fall out or are they magicly passed through the lock????

[Wolfe]

my head hurts

[Schuyler]

Where/how did you hear this would work? I think if anything it will just cause it to corrode after you fail to get the pins out, because when you heat metal it breaks down the structure of it causeing it to absorb more Oxygen than it normaly would. And also what is supposed to happen? Do they fall out or are they magicly passed through the lock????

I believe it explodes...

[freakparade3]

Bake at 350 degrees for 3 hours or until golden brown. Serve with a nice red wine.

[CompFX]

if you are trying to explode a padlock, I think you may need to upgrade your equipment. A oven will not get the lock hot enough, and ice water is not cold enough.

I am not even so sure that this will work even with a torch and liquid nitro. If you do decide to go this route, make sure you have a way to remotely drop the glowing red hot lock in a big pot of liquid nitro. I am not sure what would happen, but its probably not going to be pretty, or safe!!

Mythbusters!!


I think there are better ways to go about breaking a lock open.

CompFX

[Stray]

he is trying to get the metal covering the holes to contract faster than the rest of the lock thus allowing them to fall out and letting the pins fall out too.

If it is the same kind of "metal" in both the lock and the hole covers I'm not sure that It would work. Maybe localizing the cold water so it only drips onto the parts to be removed? or coating the rest in clay except the hole covers so when it is dropped into the cold water the rest of the padlock won't cool down as quickly as the "covers"

Same Idea as they do on the katana...

[Eyes_Only]

If the padlock is riveted together you can maybe take a dremel tool with a grinding bit and cut off the rivets and pry the padlock apart with a screwdriver. Or you can take my approach when I was 13, waste an entire weekend hunkered down in your room with a hacksaw and hope you don't cut yourself.

[bumber]

OR........its time to step up in our world! Get a freaking door lock dude, no sense in blowin up your house if the door is unlocked......Right?

[RangerF150]

An oven will not work, you need to use a blowtorch.
It's on my list of things to do