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Master Combo lock disobeys to the rule.

Having read the FAQ's you are still unfulfilled and seek more enlightenment, so post your general lock picking questions here.
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Do not post safe related questions in this sub forum! Post them in This Old Safe

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Master Combo lock disobeys to the rule.

Postby kymoz » 3 Mar 2005 22:45

Hi!
I've been lockpicking for a while now on locks with home made picks and I wanted to extend my skills on combination locks. I've tried the method they give on the site http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hill ... _lock.html
to crack my Master lock's forgotten combination. It found it back in about 10 minutes without any problem. I was quite impressed, so I decided to try the method on another Master lock which I knew the combo. BUT, there I found a problem. The five sticky points that fit ON a number are: 6, 16, 26, 36, 39. According to the method, first reflex would be to take 39 as the third number, but this is wrong, since my combo is 02-20-06. I've tried all the possibilities with 39 as the last number, and none worked.

Conclusion: ?
Is it possible that they made a new model of lock? However, both Master locks (the one I forgot the combo and the one I knew and did not respected the rule) were bought together, and one respected the "rule".

Thanks, Kymoz

By the way, I made a search with "Master, combination, craking, etc." for any similar thread talking about the same problem, and the search engine on this forum sorted me about 18 pages of 30 reasults each, so I'm sorry if this question has already been answered (in this case, please just direct me to the similar thread and delete this one)

By the way#2, thanks a lot to all of you who accept to share their knowledge and the ones who spend time on making this site and community work.
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Postby hzatorsk » 4 Mar 2005 7:47

Most of those FAQs regarding Master locks should contain this phrase:

"This worked for me... but I did not try it on every Master lock ever made. This is not guaranteed to work on all locks."

Since you've already found the threads here.... you've discovered that others have realized that this doesn't always work.

Why? Well... I am not sure, perhaps Master makes minor changes in their locks because of the postings they find here?!?
hzatorsk
 
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Postby hzatorsk » 4 Mar 2005 7:47

Most of those FAQs regarding Master locks should contain this phrase:

"This worked for me... but I did not try it on every Master lock ever made. This is not guaranteed to work on all locks."

Since you've already found the threads here.... you've discovered that others have realized that this doesn't always work.

Why? Well... I am not sure, perhaps Master makes minor changes in their locks because of the postings they find here?!?
hzatorsk
 
Posts: 696
Joined: 20 Jul 2004 11:15

Postby hzatorsk » 4 Mar 2005 7:48

Most of those FAQs regarding Master locks should contain this phrase:

"This worked for me... but I did not try it on every Master lock ever made. This is not guaranteed to work on all locks."

Since you've already found the threads here.... you've discovered that others have realized that this doesn't always work.

Why? Well... I am not sure, perhaps Master makes minor changes in their locks because of the postings they find here?!?
hzatorsk
 
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Joined: 20 Jul 2004 11:15

Postby hzatorsk » 4 Mar 2005 7:49

Sorry for the multiple posts... Clerical error involving a cat.
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