Taking apart an Abloy

[n2oah]

Well I got two Abloy mortise cylinders in the mail today, along with an Adams-Rite mortise setup. I am wondering how to take the cylinder apart and take a peek at its insides. I have a few pictures of it:

[raimundo]

That looks like a couple of modern double sided abloy mortise cylinders in what appears to be an adams rite type of mortice deadbolt. very secure, but you havent taken the abloy apart until you pull the springclip from the back of one of the mortice cylinders, the cylinders will be exposed if you look for a set pin that prevents them from being unscrewed, (the cylinders are threaded, but there is a groove in the side of them, look for a set screw driven from the adams rite body into that groove, and after you see the inside of the abloy and get it back together, I recommend that you dissasemble very carefully, perhaps with a magic marker to mark the up sides of the little discs in the lock so you don't try to put them in upside down, you could look for Zeke 79 's post on some sort of wires that bypass the extremely strong adams right mortise deadbolt. The deadbolt may even have hardend roller bearings inside that laminated hardened one and a half inch bolt, so that any saw that cuts into the center of that thing will start just rolling the hardened bearing rather than cutting.

[n2oah]

I was going to make a follow-up post that I got it dissassembled, but then I forgot.
I got it apart, at the rear of the cylinder near the tailpiece, there is a spring clip thing that you described. You show an awl in the place where the locking bar falls into and pop the springy clip out.
As far as I'm aware, the Adams-Rite trip wires from Peterson don't work on locks with a closed tailpiece. I could be totally wrong, but you can't get into detail as this is the open section.
I was thinking about putting the Adams-Rite mortise setup on my front door. Maybe I'll try to put it on a practice board instead. Does anyone know how to mount this thing on a door? I looked on the A-R site, but didn't get instructions that were very detailed.

[raimundo]

These locks are made for mounting on aluminum frame glass doors, they are extremely strong, so obviously the glass will be broken if someone wants to break in. there are some special shims that are used in mounting them inside the aluminum extrusions, and often when installing, some of these shims will fall down inside the extrusion and be left there. I once mounted one on a hollow steel door in a steel frame, but that was so long ago, I don't remember how I shimmed it, probably used wood. If I had such a lock and owned the door to mount it on, I would consider mounting it in the door frame, not the door, and letting the bolt go into the door. If you wanted to really get mid evil, you could then make this a hidden lock with another unused or dummy lock cylinder on the door. with a slideing panel over the key hole. Something like a nametag or address number.