Best day at the Flea Market ever!!! Military Padlocks!

[cheerIO]

I need confirmation on something. I noticed that the locks have Medico keys. Was Medico involved in someway to the current state of the lock?

Here is a post by Squelchtone that lays out a brief history of US Military locks. It has been reposted a couple times in different places:

http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=59827&p=440065&hilit=1200#p440065

Apparently Medeco has been the standard since the 70's.

[Sanji Himura]

I need confirmation on something. I noticed that the locks have Medico keys. Was Medico involved in someway to the current state of the lock?

Here is a post by Squelchtone that lays out a brief history of US Military locks. It has been reposted a couple times in different places:

http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=59827&p=440065&hilit=1200#p440065

Apparently Medeco has been the standard since the 70's.

Thanks for that. I had seen a few US Government locks around the internet that were made by Master Lock of all people. They weren't very good at maintaining government requirements for the lock to be considered secure.

[cheerIO]

Thanks for that. I had seen a few US Government locks around the internet that were made by Master Lock of all people. They weren't very good at maintaining government requirements for the lock to be considered secure.

There are different grades of padlocks for the Military ; High, Medium, and Low. You can't use a giant lock on everything.

These locks were once considered High Security Padlocks.

The current High Security Padlock is the S&G 951. I think these are the current requirments:

http://www.navfac.navy.mil/content/dam/navfac/Specialty%20Centers/Engineering%20and%20Expeditionary%20Warfare%20Center/DoD_Lock_Program/PDFs/MIL-DTL-43607J.pdf

[Sanji Himura]

Thanks for that. I had seen a few US Government locks around the internet that were made by Master Lock of all people. They weren't very good at maintaining government requirements for the lock to be considered secure.

There are different grades of padlocks for the Military ; High, Medium, and Low. You can't use a giant lock on everything.

These locks were once considered High Security Padlocks.

The current High Security Padlock is the S&G 951. I think these are the current requirments:

http://www.navfac.navy.mil/content/dam/navfac/Specialty%20Centers/Engineering%20and%20Expeditionary%20Warfare%20Center/DoD_Lock_Program/PDFs/MIL-DTL-43607J.pdf

Not saying you could. I believe that the story that was relayed to me was the Master Lock was competing for a military contract. As such, they had to abide by certain guidelines for the military to consider the lock. Master did none of those things and obviously didn't get the contract. If I had to figure, Master was competing for a Low security contract.

[phoneman85]

That. Is. Amazing! Read your post on the teardown before reading this post, that NAPEC lock for that price is a once in a lifetime deal! Heck, the S&G is something I wouldn't mind finding either! great score!