Yale SCE?

[bumber]

so i got a yale padlock today... it says yale on one side and SCE on the bottom right corner of the other side...it has like a crease or you could call it a line down the center of both sides(from shackle to keyway)...it is brass, and the keyway has a round plug not like a figure 8 SFIC. So...does anyone got any info on these little buggers...sorry no pics, I know how much they help

[raimundo]

Sce is likely a code for the key bitting that relates to an entry in a code book, the crease you mention brings to minde some wafer padlocks from the past, the crease is what they pay designers the big money for.

[freakparade3]

Sce is not a code that exists unless there are numbers with it you did not post.

[Kaotik]

I'm guessing...Model? (eg. Make = Yale, Model = Sce)

[MacGyver101]

Does the "SCE" look like it was stamped into the lock after manufacture? I've seen lots of public utility companies (e.g., Southern California Edison) who stamp their padlocks. (My local provider, Toronto Hydro, goes a bit further, and has very nice, etched logos on the Abloy padlocks that protect their sites.)

That may not be the answer: but I'm unfamiliar with "SCE" as a standard acronym.

[bumber]

Does the "SCE" look like it was stamped into the lock after manufacture? I've seen lots of public utility companies (e.g., Southern California Edison) who stamp their padlocks. (My local provider, Toronto Hydro, goes a bit further, and has very nice, etched logos on the Abloy padlocks that protect their sites.)

That may not be the answer: but I'm unfamiliar with "SCE" as a standard acronym.

Southern California Edison is what its from...it seems it was bought at an auction on an old utility box, I asked the person i bought it from(in calfornia) if he knew of Southern California Edison and he's like "yea by the way that lock was on this box I bought"

thanks for that bit of info...anybody wanna guess at the model?

[bumber]

^sorry for the lack of info and asking for a model, I thought maby the crease on it was for a certain type of model or something...if not its cool too

[MacGyver101]

...anybody wanna guess at the model?

Okay: having won the random acronym contest...

Is it a Yale Model 7300? (See page 12 of their Auxiliary Locks catalog.)

[bumber]

...anybody wanna guess at the model?

Okay: having won the random acronym contest...

Is it a Yale Model 7300? (See page 12 of their Auxiliary Locks catalog.)

OH SO CLOSE...but its not a SFIC, it has just the plain circle plug, and the crease instead of going along the side(like in page 1 of that PDF) it goes down the middle(of both sides)...it has Yale in the bottom right corner.

[MacGyver101]

...its not a SFIC, it has just the plain circle plug, and the crease instead of going along the side(like in page 1 of that PDF) it goes down the middle(of both sides)...it has Yale in the bottom right corner.

Urm... I don't think the model 7300 comes in SFIC. It does, however, have a milling line down the middle of both sides, and says "Yale" in the bottom-right corner: are you sure you were looking at page 12 (says "Padlocks 7300" on the top)?

[bumber]

Urm... I don't think the model 7300 comes in SFIC. It does, however, have a milling line down the middle of both sides, and says "Yale" in the bottom-right corner: are you sure you were looking at page 12 (says "Padlocks 7300" on the top)?

Well I just thought it was a PDF on SFIC's cause thats on the top of page 1...page 12 talks about screw packs and torx screws but (IN BIG LETTERS) PAGE 15 it shows exactly what I have...so you do win after all Thanks

[MacGyver101]

...page 12 talks about screw packs and torx screws

Ah, sorry: I was a bit unclear. I was trying to refer you to the page in the catalog that says "Page 12" in the corner (which is, indeed, the 15th page of the PDF).

...so you do win after all Thanks

No problem. You win, too: that was, by far, the most obscure lock identification question I've yet had.