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Euro cylinder anti snap and pick

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Euro cylinder anti snap and pick

Postby bigchap » 21 Aug 2010 20:48

euro cylinder ,been looking at you tube and i see that they are easy to snap,can you recommend a good anti snap one .
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Re: Euro cylinder anti snap and pick

Postby Squelchtone » 21 Aug 2010 21:06

bigchap wrote:euro cylinder ,been looking at you tube and i see that they are easy to snap,can you recommend a good anti snap one .



Please make one post with all of your questions instead of 3 different posts.

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Re: Euro cylinder anti snap and pick

Postby Solomon » 22 Aug 2010 18:42

There are 2 types of anti snap lock, sacrificial and reinforced. A sacrificial cylinder will snap off centre, leaving some of the cylinder and cam intact... unfortunately with some basic tools it can still be snapped out properly after this point, but they're still more secure than a standard cylinder I guess.

Most of the reinforced ones are junk and only prevent snapping vertically OR horzontally - not both. Completely useless in my opinion, but there are some exceptions. The Milenco Magnum and GeGe pExtra LAM are supposedly very good, so you might wanna look at those.
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Re: Euro cylinder anti snap and pick

Postby bigchap » 22 Aug 2010 19:19

Thanks soloman i will check them out.
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Re: Euro cylinder anti snap and pick

Postby weerwolf » 4 Sep 2010 7:59

Reinforced cylinder bars just make it more difficult to snap the cylinder. They don't make it impossible.

My advice would be to just install a security plate on the door.
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Re: Euro cylinder anti snap and pick

Postby Rickthepick » 5 Sep 2010 3:22

the magnum superior is unsnappable i tested it thoroughly and you will never snap it without drilling a load of weak points first.

Sacrificial snap cylinders are a bit pants however the garrisons by multlock still retain 4 pins which is still a tough pick for an unskilled crook
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