Hey, i have this small no named brass lock heres a pic
I had to draw that rectangle myself, but if u had this lock u would be able to see that there is a long rectangle going on across it where the pins are located..
does your camera have a macro setting? it is a little picture of a flower. use that setting to take close up pictures.
anyways you're probably right about that rectangle being used to cover the pin chambers, but the lock is not rekeyable or in any way servicable. But it's definitely pickable
Yes you can open the rectangular part, destructively, it will look like the "TSA 007" lock I disassembled some time ago:
viewtopic.php?t=11077 (scroll down, and you will see the rectangular piece, I used a Dremel cutoff wheel to open it).
Cheers,
mh
"The techs discovered that German locks were particularly difficult" - Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton w. Henry R. Schlesinger, Spycraft: The secret history of the CIA's spytechs from communism to Al-Qaeda (New York: Dutton, 2008), p. 210