Which of theese 4 is your favourite

[Jason13]

Which do you like out of theese locks? my favourite are Pin tumblers

[TOWCH]

Lever locks are more interesting and have more character than any of the other options. My favorite are disc tumbler and combination.

[dazza]

my favorite is the pin tumbler at the moment.
but would love to get into levers but one step at a time
for me.

[NKT]

You forgot Bramahs and Abloys!

[SteveW]

Its got to be lever locks

The satisfaction i got when i picked my first BS mortice lock on the door was great. I walked around for about three days afterwards grinning like an idiot.

There are so many ways to pick/open cylinders, and with lever locks your options are much more limited, and that makes them more of a challange.

hey Nigel, like the new sig.

Cheers
Steve

[Dartan]

I'd have to say pin tumblers are my favorite right now, but I have yet to try a lever lock. Are lever locks that popular? I have yet to see one in my neck of the woods.

Dave

[NKT]

Dartan, you are very unlikely ever to see one on a door in the USA. Lever locks of the type polled here are only on safes over there.

Steve, thanks, it took me a good 20 minutes. It's a bit big, is all. I agree about popping the BS locks. I'm working away so I'm good enough to beat a random 114. I'm getting close, but no cigar as yet. I beat one in under 15 minutes that I'd spent about 4 solid hours on previously last night. Then I grabbed one I'd not opened without hours of work, and popped it in under 5! Then today, on a different one with the same bitting, I'm having no joy at all again...

As far as really impressive locks go, the Bramah is top of my list, and these Western Electric lever locks are a close second. The shiny Abloys are really smart, too.

[Shrub]

It depends on what there locking, i would say its a pin tumbler if on a chasity belt but otherwise as im big on cars and love the time verses profit on opening them i have to say wafers.

Satifaction value?
Definatley lever locks but more so the BS ones.

[n2oah]

What about sidebar, magnetic, pump, electromechanical, etc.?

[pip]

ok N2oah
i give up
what is a " pump " lock

[illusion]

Lever locks win my love... athough I now have a shiny Medeco Biaxial lock which is kicking my arse... it's a 3 pin safety-deposit-box version, and it's pure evil

[zeke79]

ok N2oah
i give up
what is a " pump " lock

Have a look at some mottura locks. I believe they have some pump locks in their mechanical line. I think pump style locks are more common in Italy and France but this is just a guess from what I have read.

[Pickermeapie]

ok N2oah
i give up
what is a " pump " lock

It is the guy waiting behind the door with a 12 Gauge... Sorry, Couldn't Resist

[greyman]

Where do I start? Probably wafer locks are at the bottom of the list, unless you count Kromer, which I think of as a lever lock. I like both pin tumbler and lever locks a lot, but that's if you count sidebar locks as pin tumbler, otherwise I prefer sidebar locks to straight pin tumbler.

Lever locks are pretty classy and nice to hold since they're quite meaty. At the moment my favourite lever locks are German ones like Kromer and Panzer, they are so intricate. I still have a soft spot for Abloy since it's such a wonderful concept. Oh - I'm forgetting Fichet locks, kind of like them too.

Actually - does anyone have any German locks they'd like to sell? I'm not seeing too many such items on ebay.

What locks do people here dislike? I hate cheap, poorly made locks, no matter what sort they are. I don't like Kaba - they're too fiddly to work with.

[Shrub]

I like Kaba because they are fiddly to work with, i love the Genimi, differant strokes for differant people though.