Folger Adam Breakdown (Mortise Cylinder)

[Urbex]

The pins are easy to manipulate, it's just a matter of getting your pick to the pins.

I need to be more clear in my explanations

[lockeymoto]

The Bogata pick beside the lock is a nice touch

[straightpick]

Looks like a Corbin-Russwin master ring cylinder in the Mogul size. Corbin-Russwin used the anti-impressioning ball bearings.

[Urbex]

I always though the bearings were to make the lock more durable.

[mitch.capper]

It does make the lock more durable as they certainly don't wear and are a bit easier on keys, they also do make it a bit harder to impression at the pin bottom is more rounded. Make no mistake though that it certainly is still possible (infact any normal flatter bottom pin will cause a similar issue).

[raimundo]

i was looking at my corbin ring cylinder from the St Paul Hotel, just yesterday, and when I saw this, I thought it was virtually the same, but when I saw it beside the medeco, this gives a different impression of size, its definately bigger than corbins ring cylinder,
Thanks for showing the pick
obviously not the mogul, as it dosent have the angled in pins, but likely part of a system where both the simpler locks and the high security types are used in the same institution for different required levels of security.

[Urbex]

I've seen the Corbin ball bearings used in large institutions, where these poor locks defiantly take a beating.

[Urbex]

Spell checker doesn't agree with me, I meant to say "definitely".