Hello folks. It is with great trepidation that I open yet another thread and for a fairly specialized question (I assume not many people pick this lock save in Germany?) Anyway, I picked up a bunch of locks on the cheap at an auction, including a pair of ABUS padlocks. I tried perusing the
www.ABUS.de website but could not cross-reference it. Perhaps, this model is no longer in production. I'm having great difficulty in picking it; I'm not sure how many pins are even in it.
Unfortunately, my technical ineptitude will not allow me to take and scan a photo of the lock on this thread. For seeking help in indentifying and picking it, I am left with describing it. The padlock has no identifying numbers/codes stamped or printed on its body other than a 'No.42/70' which appears on the bottom. The padlock shares the 'classic padlock shape' of the Master Lock. Its case is slightly less than twice as wide and about one and a half times as thick as a Master Lock No.1 padlock. There are black plastic lining strips going around the lower body of the case (like a Master Lock) and around the upper body of the case.
I tried using our search engine but came up empty; the only relevant thread returned was about another model of ABUS lock. If anyone is familiar with the lock I've described and can lend some pointers and/or basic comments about it (things as simple as the number of pins, etc.), I would be grateful. Picking this lock has forced me to depart from my usual comofort zone of levering my pick against the top of my tension wrench because the lock's ward configuration (reverse of those on a SChlage) doesn't allow it. I have to lever against the higher ward. In tensioning, I have found that there is a little bit of give going clockwise, but there is almost none at all going counterclockwise. Thanks all
