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Falle-Safe Securities Templates & Measurements

When it comes down to it there is nothing better than manual tools for your Lock pick Set, whether they be retail, homebrew, macgyver style. DIY'ers look here.

Falle-Safe Securities Templates & Measurements

Postby Octillion » 8 Mar 2006 18:34

I've decided to post some detailed information on the Falle-Safe Securities basic picking kit, for anyone interested in purchasing the kit, or someone looking for a quality template and measurements for producing their own accurate replica of any of the tools. It seems the kit is a bit shrouded in mystery to anyone who has never seen it, and I know of no place on the internet that has information as detailed as I plan on posting here.

I have taken high resolution scans of the picks and torque tools next to reference rulers for the purpose of making templates, etc. The scans are at 600dpi, and are likely of higher resolution than necessary for any purpose. The file sizes are quite large (18.8MB and 17.3MB for the picks and torque tools respectively), and I currently don't have a place to host them (any takers?). But here are low resolution thumbnails at 10% of the original size:
Picks (44k): http://users.rcn.com/jultim/Falle-Safe_ ... humb10.jpg
Torque Tools (30k): http://users.rcn.com/jultim/Falle-Safe_ ... humb10.jpg

Contents of US Falle-Safe Securities Basic Picking Kit:
6 deep curves (3 different, each with doubles)
6 graduated curves (3 different, each with doubles)
3 progressive curves (all different)
2 thin curves (different)
3 Rakes (all different)
6 fixed torque tools (all different)
4 adjustable torque tools (all "different")
16 strip torque tools, 8 straight 8 twisted (4 different sizes, 2 straight and 2 twisted of each size)

All of the torque tools are stainless steel, and the picks are nickle-plated carbon spring steel.

Measurements
All measurements are in mils (1mil = 0.001in), taken to the nearest mil. I report my actual measurements, which may be off by up to 1mils.

Thickness of the metal used in all picks and torque tools is 24mils.

Conventional Torque Tools
The conventional torque tools are very similar to windshield wiper blade inserts. They come twisted and straight, in four different blade sizes, reported below.

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Conventional Torque Tools
Thickness   Width
30         90
31         101
31         110
30         121


Fixed Torque Tools
There are six different double ended fixed torque tools. The difference in the ends is where the narrow and wide prongs are, such that using one end will have the tool extending up when inserted in a lock, while the other end will have it extended down.

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Fixed Torque Tools - Prong Widths
No.   Wide   Narrow
1:   44      100
2:   49      96
3:   51      102
4:   43      88
5:   51      98
6:   69      100


Adjustable Torque Tools
The adjustable torque tools are made up of an "outer" part (either A or B), and an "inner" part (1 or 2), held together by two screws with a washer and nut. The four adjustable torque tools in the kit are just permutations of these 4 different components (A1, A2, B1, B2). The prong widths are reported below. Within an error of a few mils, there are 2 different prong widths each for wide and narrow. These allow for an arrangement of 4 possible combinations, which are provided by the adjustable tools, although the same "up" and "down" combination of wide and short are not provided on the same tool. For example, "wide A" & "narrow 1" are the same as "wide 2" & "narrow A", but in one configuration the tool will point up when inserted in the lock, while in the other the tool will point down. By mixing the prong widths into the parts A, B, 1 and 2, only 4 total components need to be manufactured, while if the "up" and "down" configurations of given "wide" and "narrow" prongs were on the same tool (as in the fixed torque tools), a total of 8 components would need to be manufactured.

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Adjustable Torque Tools - Prong Widths
No.   Wide   Narrow
A:   58      99
B:   50      78
1:   49      97
2:   58      79


Any other measurements should be obtainable through the high resolution scans (no host as of yet).

I know some of you will make good use of this information, but please do not copy anything posted here outside of the forum. Enjoy.
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Postby Shrub » 8 Mar 2006 19:34

The thickness of the tools cant be 24mm they must be more like 2.4mm but even then that sounds too thick,

1mm = 0.039"
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Postby Omikron » 8 Mar 2006 19:39

I can host them for you for free on my ISU webspace.
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Postby Octillion » 8 Mar 2006 19:43

Sounds good Omikron. I'll send you an e-mail for a temporary link where they can be downloaded.

BTW, 1mil = 0.0254mm, so 24mils = ~0.61mm, the thickness is correct.
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Postby Shrub » 8 Mar 2006 19:54

Ah, here we use the term mil to mean mm, as were metric, imperial/english is mostly down to thou unless your working on somthing really special but most industries doing that sort of work are in metric and will go to 0.0001mm tolerance, millianths of an inch is way over the top for picks but i stand corrected, carry on :lol:
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Postby unbreakable » 8 Mar 2006 20:07

What timing :D :D

I was planning to make a set of my own Falle safe replicas on the weekend, only from a series of slightly lower res. shots, with no scale. These will help me out tremendously, Thanks Alot for the pictures Octillion. :P

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Postby zeke79 » 8 Mar 2006 20:10

Octillion,

I would also be interested in hosting them on locksportarchives.
For the best book out there on high security locks and their operation, take a look at amazon.com for High-Security Mechanical Locks An Encyclopedic Reference. Written by our very own site member Greyman! A true 5 Star read!!
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Postby Octillion » 8 Mar 2006 20:11

Yeah, sorry about the confusion. I much prefer the metric system, but being in the US I'm stuck with the crappy British system along with my tools. The ruler in my scan happened to be one of the few rulers I own that have a millimeter scale.
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Postby Octillion » 8 Mar 2006 20:19

Zeke,

PM sent.
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Postby zeke79 » 8 Mar 2006 22:54

Got it. Thanks Octillion!
For the best book out there on high security locks and their operation, take a look at amazon.com for High-Security Mechanical Locks An Encyclopedic Reference. Written by our very own site member Greyman! A true 5 Star read!!
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Postby Exodus5000 » 9 Mar 2006 13:13

Anyone have those high res images hosted yet?
Omi, zeke? I'm itchin' to grind out some gradual curves.
[deadlink]http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6973/exodus5000ac5.jpg
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Postby zeke79 » 9 Mar 2006 13:37

I have them, but they need to be sized down a bit as each .jpg image is around 18mb. When I get them resized, I'll post them on locksportarchives.
For the best book out there on high security locks and their operation, take a look at amazon.com for High-Security Mechanical Locks An Encyclopedic Reference. Written by our very own site member Greyman! A true 5 Star read!!
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Postby Omikron » 9 Mar 2006 14:08

When they are done uploading in a few minutes, the raw 18MB files can be found here: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~omikron/ ... s/Mirrors/
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Postby jimb » 9 Mar 2006 15:02

Omikron wrote:When they are done uploading in a few minutes, the raw 18MB files can be found here: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~omikron/ ... s/Mirrors/


They won't load for me?
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Postby jimb » 9 Mar 2006 15:05

jimb wrote:
Omikron wrote:When they are done uploading in a few minutes, the raw 18MB files can be found here: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~omikron/ ... s/Mirrors/


They won't load for me?


I also have access to all your directories?
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