Homage to a Pollux

[MrAnybody]

I just wanna share this with you guys as I'm a real fan of French locks.

I acquired a gorgeous Pollux cylinder a few days back, and I decided to have a play and gut this beautiful little puppy.

Some French locks just get me all gooey with admiration, and personally ... yes I can stand with my hand on my heart, and say, "I'm MrAnybody, and I'm a brass addict".




I've uploaded an album of another 10 delicious pics for your delight and entertainment: http://imgur.com/a/DTP5G

Enjoy, Enjoy ..

[GWiens2001]

I would love to get my paws on one of these Pollux locks. They are beautiful locks, and I am also addicted to brass. Unfortunately, it seems they are kinda on the pricey side, even on the French eBay site. Can you recommend a better place to find them?

Gordon

[femurat]

That's a beautiful lock. I can feel your excitement while disassembling...

Cheers

[MrAnybody]

I would love to get my paws on one of these Pollux locks. They are beautiful locks, and I am also addicted to brass. Unfortunately, it seems they are kinda on the pricey side, even on the French eBay site. Can you recommend a better place to find them?

Gordon

Hi Gordon,

The only source I know of is eBay.fr, but to get one at a reasonable price is not easy. Any other option seems to be even more expensive.

Other than that, I'll keep an eye out for another and we can trade.

[titou26]

For expensive locks you should make exchange with Europeans people

I'm not interested at the moment but you have to ask other members ...

[MrAnybody]

For expensive locks you should make exchange with Europeans people

I'm not interested at the moment but you have to ask other members ...

I'd be happy to see if we can trade locks at some time. Especially since you're in France. And I say the same for any of your picking friends in France. Here's a link to my collection

Please, please feel free to post any tips, knowledge or your own experience picking any of these locks. I'd really appreciate that.

If I haven't already picked a lock in my collection, then it will definitely get to the top of the list at some point. You can use the 2 digit prefix number on the title of each pic for reference.

Thank you, titou.

[titou26]

I did not need other locks at the moment but another day maybe ...

Tu as déjà une belle collection, il y a des choses très difficiles à ouvrir.

Si tu parles un peu français (if you speak French), you can come on a French forum and you will find people who will agree to trade.

Sorry if I do not have the right to speak in another forum. Moderators can edit.

When you go to south France you can also renconter other lockpickers. There's a lot there and they sometimes encounter.

[MrAnybody]

I thought to add to this since I've just finished gutting and cleaning 5 pin Pollux I recently got. Other than the 5 pins, instead of the 7 pins I showed in my OP, it's exactly the same internally, but there are some differences externally. The 5 pin is an older version than the 7 pin.

Here's some comparison pics with the pin on the left and the 7 pin on the right.

Note the difference in the shorter internal cylinder. The 5 pin internal cylinder is also secured by a Phillips head screw rather than a grub screw.


The only differences here is the front of the external cylinder, and the smaller diameter to front of the internal cylinder.


And naturally some differences in the key.

[Divinorum]

That's a really lock, thanks for sharing this. I'll be the one to ask the question with the probably obvious answer that I'm still not sure of lol......This is basically a normal tubular lock with a really different key way?

[GWiens2001]

Not really. It works more like the Bramah lock design. A tubular lock is a pin tumbler lock. The Pollux is not.

Gordon

[ARF-GEF]

Gordon you can spot one for an acceptable price every now and then, it's very rare and you need to be very lucky.
I love how smooth they are

Juicy locks you got there MrA , thanks for sharing!

[cocolitos]

A tubular lock is a pin tumbler lock. The Pollux is not.

The POLLUX lock is an axial pin tumbler lock mechnism...

[GWiens2001]

Darn it, now I absolutely must get one for my collection. Thanks a lot for forcing me to spend money.



Gordon