S&G 8088

[Josh K]

And it kinda pisses me off that he offered you a change key for two. I bought five total off of him and he wouldn't let go of a change key. Maybe those are his last two?

Well it says that he has 100 more so I don't think it is. Did you contact him about it? He seemed pretty happy to give me one if I were to purchase more locks from him. Here is what he wrote:

If you like the lock, go ahead and submit an offer to buy 2 more at $7.50 each and I'll include a change key. deal? total of $15

And yeah, I'm tapped out at the moment too. eBay is great at making me lose money when it comes to buying new locks.
Hopefully once I can afford it he will still be willing to give me the deal. Even if I don't have a use for these locks, I could probably give one away as a gift and maybe open up the other. The wiki page linked-to earlier describes where to drill to take off the back panel.

Yeah, he said that he only had a few and wasn't willing to part with them. Oh well, I have one.

I'm not sure you'd want to drill out the back panel. That makes the lock useless. You could probably use it at the default 25-0 setting. It's not like that's common knowledge.

[ChemicalRobot]

I'm not sure you'd want to drill out the back panel. That makes the lock useless. You could probably use it at the default 25-0 setting. It's not like that's common knowledge.

Oh I meant drill it just so I could see the insides, for fun.

[Josh K]

I'm not sure you'd want to drill out the back panel. That makes the lock useless. You could probably use it at the default 25-0 setting. It's not like that's common knowledge.

Oh I meant drill it just so I could see the insides, for fun.

Ah. Yeah, that would be pretty neat.

[ChemicalRobot]

Ah. Yeah, that would be pretty neat.

Yeah! But it would be cool if it were possible to keep it in working order without the back. Like, if I could cut a piece of plexiglass to match the back panel as a replacement. Probably more work than it's worth but it might be fun.

[datagram]

Yeah! But it would be cool if it were possible to keep it in working order without the back. Like, if I could cut a piece of plexiglass to match the back panel as a replacement. Probably more work than it's worth but it might be fun.

You can mill out the sides of the padlock to make a pseudo-cutaway. A true cutaway that shows the working of the butterfly and fence/gate relationship is difficult because of the placement of the change key shutter components on the back plate.

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