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[Geek142]

Hello

I have been playing around with locks because of not knowing much about them so i decided to get out my lockwood 234/45 and opened it up, it had the normal pin in it and then i opened my friends lockwood 234/45 and it had these pins in it. i have provided a drawing below.



I understand these might be some type of security pin and the extra smaller parts might falsely set but i am unsure. i have looked through modern high security locks and saw a picture but it just told you about the lock and not the pins. Could anyone shed some light on this.

Cheers

Geek

[vector40]

Most likely, those additional spacers are for master keying. You see that having more than two pins in the stack allows for more than one shearline, right? As a result, you can have more than one key. That stack has THREE shearlines, so there are even more possibilities.

[Geek142]

Thanks, it all makes sense now, my friend got found that lock and most of the locks around my area are master keyed like the school and the council so that explains it.

Thanks

[WhiteHat]

was it a padlock? it's weird to have a master keyed padlock just lying arround

[Geek142]

Hey

Yes it must have been a master keyed padlock, well sometimes they dont lock the locks and people take them and throw them around for fun thinking that they will impress someone from stealing it ( ) Anyways we found it and took it home thinking its not really going to hurt because we didnt know where it came from so we though it would be better we had it then laying there on the ground.

Geek

[Geek142]

Anyways seens as this is the lock forum and instead of posting another thread i would just like to tell you that i learnt how to rekey WOOT! a while back skold sent me a cylinder and somehow i stuffed it up and i couldnt use it unless i knew how to take apart locks and rekey so it WAS just a cylinder laying around but i now have a new functioning lock

Geek

[digital_blue]

I've seen a few examples of master-keyed padlocks. Most recently I got a couple padlocks that were being discarded from my stepfathers work. I am told (by my stepfater) that all the padlocks at his work are master keyed.

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