aussielocky's Chubb detector lock video on YouTube

[aussielocky]

Part 2 failed to upload for some reason .. Trying again ..

[gstrendkill]

yea i was wondering why it cut off. post again when u got it working

[aussielocky]

Part two is up.

[gstrendkill]

wow, that lock a work of art!

[greyman]

I think I looked at the right video. That is a nice looking combination lock. Looks to be a 4 wheel Yale? Please correct me on the brand

The video after that seems to be of a Chubb change-key lock. Did the Germans really use English locks on the Enigma machine? I'm surprised, as they had plenty of their own great locks and German nationalism was running high in those times. The presenter sounds an awful lot like Oli D.

Good stuff.

[mh]

The video after that seems to be of a Chubb change-key lock. Did the Germans really use English locks on the Enigma machine? I'm surprised, as they had plenty of their own great locks and German nationalism was running high in those times. The presenter sounds an awful lot like Oli D.

I believe Oli was referring to an Enigma machine that was captured by the British and was safely locked away using these locks.

The machines themselves were apparently stored in wooden boxes and I don't think they had special locks on them.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Enigmas.jpg

mh

[mh]

or maybe he just wanted a nice headline for the video...

[aussielocky]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sOcPeKFX4Yk

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=T35kbOOElyM

The comb is a Sargent & Greenleaf size 1, automatic.

The other vid is not mine, but the lock in question was certainly nothing to do with an Enigma machine !

[greyman]

[...]
I believe Oli was referring to an Enigma machine that was captured by the British and was safely locked away using these locks.

The machines themselves were apparently stored in wooden boxes and I don't think they had special locks on them.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Enigmas.jpg

mh

I have the privilege of living in the UK and having visited Bletchley Park, where they have an original German Enigma machine. Here is a photo of it (I think you can see that the "lock" on the box is not up to much!)

[gstrendkill]

thats pretty cool greyman

[xlr8ed1]

the trick to "picking" these locks lay in the fact that the detector lever was was always exactly one height above the correct lever height. Thus say the cut of the correct key was a "number three" - the detector would be at the number two height of a cut key.
Hence you would over pick on purpose and engage the detector - take a reading - then cut a key one depth less than your reading.