skold wrote:hmmmm give me a listy.
I've got a couple of Emharts (very cool locks, the use inter-locking top and bottom pins. A quote from LSS:
"Security is attained through the use of interlocking pin tumblers. The end of each pin interlocks within the chamber, and can only be released through the rotation action of the pin, caused by the movement of the angled cuts on the key bitting surface...If the proper key is not inserted, the pins will remain locked together, forming, in essence, one solid tumbler (driver, master wafer, and lower pin)."
Here is a diagram of it.
I've got a couple of safe deposit box locks, a schlage Everest, and some Arfe dimple locks.
"Lockpicking is what robbing is all about!" says Jim King.
