Neat key, pin tumbler + tubular

by **horsefeathers** » 6 Jun 2007 12:03

Gotta be a fake......surely?

by **UWSDWF** » 6 Jun 2007 12:21

what mine?... of course I just came up with it... (from a shoes concept)

by **Schuyler** » 6 Jun 2007 12:27

UWSDWF wrote:what mine?... of course I just came up with it... (from a shoes concept)

I'm gonna make it...I think I can...MAYBE

by **UWSDWF** » 6 Jun 2007 12:42

<work I just realized I can't use> sexy.... keep me in the loop... and the name must stay the same unless you plan on going commercial

by **Schuyler** » 6 Jun 2007 12:47

I'll likely never go commercial

I just miss doing my stupid lock mods and could use a good project.

by **Charodei** » 6 Jun 2007 14:19

If you're feeling really crazy, you could separate the keyway into two sections, one circular, the other the straight center part. The key would be strange, having two 'prongs' with a slot between them. This would let you put dimple pins on the bottom of the lock. Throw in a bunch of security pins and such, and you'll have a lock that's nearly impossible to pick.

The machinists making it would hate you for giving them such a nightmare.

by **raimundo** » 6 Jun 2007 14:42

The key photographed, is a common type found in bus depots on the small 24 hour storage lockers. I have a few of them in my collection somewhere, but the name of the lock maker? I don't know, possibly greenleaf as they make things for this kind of application, I'll google bus locker key or green leaf and see what I get, after Im on here for a little while and move on to googl.

by **metalking00** » 6 Jun 2007 18:29

good job redrawing my original drawing!

In response to someone saying that the keyway would be gigantic making picking easier, make the key a hollow tube so theres a post in the center of the keyway. That would obstruct what would otherwise make a very easy set of pins to pick. you could also make the post in the center able to rotate only with the tubular pick mechanism, while the pin tumbler mechanism would rely on the blade part of the key to rotate that assembly, so that any attempt to pick it would aslo have the wrench obstructing the keys.

hope that was clear enough, dibs on the concept.

by **metalking00** » 6 Jun 2007 18:30

good job redrawing my original drawing!

In response to someone saying that the keyway would be gigantic making picking easier, make the key a hollow tube so theres a post in the center of the keyway. That would obstruct what would otherwise make a very easy set of pins to pick. you could also make the post in the center able to rotate only with the tubular lock mechanism, while the pin tumbler mechanism would rely on the blade part of the key to rotate that assembly, so that any attempt to pick it would aslo have the wrench obstructing the keys.

hope that was clear enough, dibs on the concept.

by **blake1803** » 6 Jun 2007 20:20

metalking00 wrote:hope that was clear enough, dibs on the concept.

Crystal clear

Some good thoughts in this thread! Cheers

by **linty** » 7 Jun 2007 16:42

the keyway isn't gigantic, it looks a lot like the drawing...kind of like a tubular lock with a keyway in the middle.

by **metalking00** » 7 Jun 2007 19:56

I think having the bitting on top would make it harder to pick, since there'd be no place for the wrench to go.

by **raimundo** » 20 Aug 2007 8:20

think of a U shaped key, (a bit like a bi lock) with the bottom of the U as a part of the tubular keyway, and the two tops cut like bi lock, so you have two flat blade keys with a round part that you can put tons of pins on.

by **Picklocking** » 20 Aug 2007 8:56

Awsome post

by **SnowyBoy** » 20 Aug 2007 21:09

UWSDWF wrote:soooo... I took shoe's idea and exploited it and made it different slightly..

the tubular part I am thinking would work like a small Drumm Geminy....

what do yeah think

ohhhh and copyright me.... take it and i'll kill you

Too much gap round the outside.....plug would be loose as arseholes in there.

Neat key, pin tumbler + tubular

common type actually

other concept

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