How do you deal with sideways/upside down locks?

by **Chrispy** » 3 Jan 2006 5:34

Guess what I found in a suppliers newsletter today? It was a memorial to an old locksmith and founding member of the QLD branch of the MLAA. I've got the actual email if anyone wants proof.

Vale Graeme Reed
(1936 -2005)

It is with sadness that we announce that Graeme Reed
passed away on the 17th November, surrounded by
loved ones, after a long battle with illness.

Graeme ran the family business H.A.Reed locksmiths
with his brother Alan, a business that was founded in 1875,
making it one of the oldest businesses still operating in
QLD. Graeme was also a founding member of the MLAA
QLD branch and was instrumental in the success of the 1992
Brisbane MLAA conference. Graeme was an accomplished
line dancer and a very talented and competitive table
tennis player, but most of all he was a great storyteller.

One such story relates to a call for his skills. Graeme
had to "scrub-up"; to assist a doctor in the removal of
a padlock that somehow had become attached to a young
mans nether regions without a key; needless to say that
quick action and a warm grip was required! Graeme had
always regarded this as his most unusual call out.

Graeme will be sadly missed. Our deepest sympathy to
Marie, David,Richard, Alan and all the family.

It's scary to know that it happens on a semi-regular basis. :lol:

by **skold** » 3 Jan 2006 5:40

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I read a similar printout that a few guys where having a laugh at.

I wonder how much one would charge for a padlock to be removed from such a place?

by **Chrispy** » 3 Jan 2006 6:10

$30 call out fee, $64 an hour and $1000 ransom.

"Pay me my money or the rake slips!" :lol:

by **digital_blue** » 3 Jan 2006 11:36

It actually happened more than once?????? :shock:

by **n2oah** » 3 Jan 2006 16:50

Upside down mounted locks are not mounted incorrectly, it's just a personal preference of the locksmith. If you encounter a lot of upside down locks, or you just want to challenge yourself, I recommend that you talk to raimundo about his upside-down hooks. :wink:

by **Badmonkey005** » 3 Jan 2006 18:03

digital_blue wrote:Don't go off topic? Are you kidding me??? There's hardly a hint of the original topic left of this thread. What exactly was that topic he shouldn't have "gone off"? The story of the padlock on the guy's junk?

db

I was just busting his balls (no pun intended). It was a joke

Because you're right, there is no hint of the original topic, lol. But it has turned into something a little more interesting :twisted:

by **devnill** » 3 Jan 2006 18:37

they should have chopped it off so the poor guy could at least win a darwin award (by removing him from the gene pool)

by **Badmonkey005** » 3 Jan 2006 18:56

devnill wrote:they should have chopped it off so the poor guy could at least win a darwin award (by removing him from the gene pool)

lmfao harsh

natural selection at it's best

by **illusion** » 3 Jan 2006 19:04

well if you're thick enough to get a padlock clamped around your family-jewels then I guess it serves them right... personaly I'd start drilling it and let luck decide the outcome...

favourable outcome: you drill straight and don't slips..

unfavourable outcome: hehehehe.... ouch :twisted:

by **Nekura** » 3 Jan 2006 21:16

don't go off topic please

Sorry mate. I thought incorrectly mounted locks was the topic still. Wouldn't talking about thermite be off topic?

by **n2oah** » 3 Jan 2006 21:20

Nekura wrote:
don't go off topic please

Sorry mate. I thought incorrectly mounted locks was the topic still.

I think if you have a padlock around your nuts, it could be considered incorrectly mounted

by **Nekura** » 3 Jan 2006 21:37

Very true.

by **Badmonkey005** » 4 Jan 2006 14:38

n2oah wrote:
Nekura wrote:
don't go off topic please

Sorry mate. I thought incorrectly mounted locks was the topic still.

I think if you have a padlock around your nuts, it could be considered incorrectly mounted

Yeah, and as long as we are discussing thermite as a feasable option to get the padlock off it would be catigorized as on topic :twisted:

by **CPLP** » 12 Feb 2006 11:40

Nekura wrote:

Sorry mate. I thought incorrectly mounted locks was the topic still.

I don't agree with you, I don't think that it is an incorrect way of mounting locks.
When I first learned about picking locks I saw some USA manuals on that subject and they all talked about locks that were with the pins in upper part. I'm from Portugal and all locks are with the pins 'upside-down'. Well they aren't upside down in fact, they are upside down comparing with the most part of the USA door locks. There's no rule that says that a lock has to be in a certain position. Barry Wels said that in USA people used locks with the pins in the upper part because of the dust not to ruin the lock. I don't know if it is really that reason why locks are that way in the US but it makes some sense. Anyway, when I started picking locks I always picked them 'upside-down' so it makes me some confusion when I try picking them in the US way. What I really want to say is that it is all a mather of practice. Practice it both ways and you will be fine with any kind of lock position.

by **baddboy1** » 13 Feb 2006 16:37

mutate and survive lol

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