Lock Greatness Chart: How the Professionals Rate Locks

[DPTR]

We were thinking that their should be a diamond insert plate to increase the value and prevent drilling.

While diamond may be the hardest substance most of us can think of, it can also shatter. A hammer and nail could shatter a diamond plate -> unless the plate was small enough.

[caffn8me]

While diamond may be the hardest substance most of us can think of, it can also shatter. A hammer and nail could shatter a diamond plate

A blowtorch will also destroy a diamond very quickly. Carbon burns!

[dougfarre]

YOU guys are way lame.

[dougfarre]

Everyone knows diamonds are impenetrable.

[freakparade3]

Everyone knows diamonds are impenetrable.

You are kidding right?

[dougfarre]

Everyone knows diamonds are impenetrable.

You are kidding right?

No I'm not kidding. Just like how this whole thread wasn't somewhat of a joke either. I mean, of course wafer locks with gold wafers is a brilliant idea, and plugs spinners with the plug that keeps spinning for special effects? I mean, who would make jokes about this kind of stuff?

[raimundo]

Caffeinateme is right, diamonds do burn. it takes a high heat, but still they are carbon, and they do burn. anecdotal and true.

[freakparade3]

Personally I think this is the most important thread on the site. I love the gold wafer idea, I think GM is offering these in the new H2's. Diamonds can only be penetrated with an ultra sonic high yield uzi plasma heat seeking water pistol. I thought everyone knew that.

[raimundo]

How about a kwickset on a door that looks like it operates a deadbolt, but the deadbolt is actually not holding the door shut, its holding back a 200 pound sandbag in a chute above the lock.

[mh]

the diamonds could be very well supplied by the Tiger Team, from the safe at that jeweller that makes these diamond plates for the Hollywood celebrities... Would that be called stoned-engineering?

[caffn8me]

Everyone knows diamonds are impenetrable.

Not everyone. Only those who didn't pay attention in high school chemistry classes

If diamonds are impenetrable, how do jewellers "cut" diamonds? You don't believe that natural diamonds from the mine come cut ready for insertion into jewellery do you? Goodness, you could dig for months trying to find the exact size diamond you wanted!

[caffn8me]

A tungsten carbide plate to defeat drilling might work. I'd considered the possibility as I have a friend who owns a company which works tungsten carbide tools.

[mitch.capper]

You can't cut diamonds, what are you talking about?

Of course it takes a long time to find the exact diamond you want, thats why large groups of small children dig for years finding diamonds. Sometimes their fingers get cut though (as diamonds are also sharp [Why do you think the pointy part is always going down in the ring]) and then bleed, thus the reason diadmonds from small children are called blood diamonds.

[paulvalente]

What you want to do is make a drill plate out of phenomenally close grained sintered ceramic (I believe they use a material like this for the trauma plates in body armour).

It's also used for some industrial applications ie. CNC lathe tools (tips only) it can withsatnd heat, impact (think trying to turn a square workpiece = hundreds of high force blows a minute) and definitely drilling from any easily available drill bit!

[n2oah]

The SmartKey is the "single greatest lock ever" period. Its new, it has like 1000 moving parts.

This statement begs to be inserted into a sig. Now it has!