Which medeco?

[lee.cook]

Hello,

My friend gave me a Medeco pin tumbler, but I have no idea which Medeco it is, it says Medeco m2 on front, so i'm guessing that m2 means the keyway, it doesnt say Biaxial anywhere.

Also its a 6 pin lock, thank you

[Squelchtone]

Hello,

My friend gave me a Medeco pin tumbler, but I have no idea which Medeco it is, it says Medeco m2 on front, so i'm guessing that m2 means the keyway, it doesnt say Biaxial anywhere.

Also its a 6 pin lock, thank you

hmmm do you have a digital camera? that would help a lot. and you're pretty sure its M2 and not M3 as in your signature?

Squelchtone

[Wolfe]

yeah man i picture would do a world of wonder. i dont deal with a lot of medeco products if its threaded on the outside its a mortise cylinder if not its a deadbolt lock.Im leaning toward the mortis because i know they have a 6 pin mortise lock.best i can do with out more details.

[lockedin]

hmmm do you have a digital camera? that would help a lot. and you're pretty sure its M2 and not M3 as in your signature?

How did you even see that?

[linty]

if it's biaxial it will have the biaxial logo,
http://www.medeco.com/products/images/Maxum.jpg
that's the "paw print" logo under the M in MEDECO

if it's m3 biaxial, it will say M³, and if it's M3 original it will have M³ in a circle.

If it's got none of those logos than you have a medeco standard.

[lee.cook]

Hey guys,

Sorry for the long, took a couple of snaps with my friends Nikon D50, im not a very good photographer so dont expect miracles he he..

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/4350/dsc0831ri3.jpg
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1853/dsc0829hy1.jpg

Hope this helps

[UWSDWF]

m3 biaxial

[Schuyler]

i want it

[Schuyler]

i want it

[lee.cook]

A bi-axial, no wonder its hard as hell, you like it then

[NIC]

GOOD LUCK!!

[lee.cook]

Yeah, I think I need luck.

Some more pics :
Key


Cylinder close up front:
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/9820/dsc0836jk4.jpg[/list]

[Schuyler]

A bi-axial, no wonder its hard as <censored>, you like it then

The biaxial nature of the lock is actually not what makes it hard. Medeco's whole deal is the lift and turn nature of their locks, the biaxial isn't referring to that principal. It's actually referring to the placement of the tip of the key pin, in this way, the key itself doesn't have to have it's cuts are regular increments like a normal pin tumbler key has to. They can be somewhat irregular.

It makes a huge impact on possible bittings. Medeco had depths, and angles, with biaxial they now had depths, angles, and point placement (I'm sure there's a more professional term for this)

So, anyhow, very cool feature, but medecos were hard before biaxials

Also, it being an M3? You have a pretty sturdy checkpin-like system to overcome when picking. There is a slider that will lock the sidebar in place without the proper key being inserted.

[Shrub]

I think you have your answer so before discussion goes any deeper into picking them i shall remove the temptation from the typeing fingers of the LP101 Medeco Cracking Team or MCT for short