Ingersoll 10 Lever Cut-Away Lock

[illusion]

Hey again.

The Ingersoll mechanism uses 10 levers, and a flat key. All the gates on the levers must be aligned to the sidebar, allowing it to sink in, and the plug turn.

There is a breakdown on this thread: http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?p=121250#121250

This is a really nice lock, and it's just really nicely designed - beautiful really. This proves the Brits really can make some awesome stuff.

The cut-away took me about a day to do, and was very straight forwards. I cut the sidebar so you could see the lower area of the levers and watch the gates align, but I would not advise anybody to really do this - the spring resting against the sidebar won't work and will need to be bent to shape.

It's an easy cut-away to make, but at the price these locks sell at, you don't wanna mess up - take it slow, think twice, cut once. (I'm sure that's wrong for some reason lol)

Here are the keys, you can see they resemble a double wafer key to some extent. There are 5 cuts on each side (Shocker lol!) but on one side 3 cuts are at the same height.



Here is the cylinder with the side cut-away... The brass part is the sidebar, and the silver parts are obviously the levers.



We can see that the key has lifted and lowered some of the levers in this photo.



The key has been fully inserted, and the sidebar has sunk into the gates on the levers. Usualy the sidebar only sinks in when you turn it, but the spring collapsed during this photo and the sidebar just sunk in without needing to turn. I fixed the issue with the spring since.



Here the plug has been turned 180 degrees so the back of the levers, and springs can be seen.



Well... That pretty much covers the Ingersoll lock, and it's mechanism.

I hope you got something from this...

Thanks for reading,

Ben

[Shrub]

Youve done a good job of that one, well done mate.

[ThE_MasteR]

Looks nice.

[mh]

Wow, looks really good!! Well done!

mh

[Omikron]

Congrats on a fantastic job illusion!

You know, when I first glanced at the pictures I started reading the post to see how much you ended up paying for the factory cutaway...

[devildog]

Nicely done, another lovely cutaway by illusion.

Have you considered doing a cutaway of an Ingersoll padlock? You KNOW that would be even cooler

[illusion]

Nicely done, another lovely cutaway by illusion.

Have you considered doing a cutaway of an Ingersoll padlock? You KNOW that would be even cooler

The only hard part would be cutting into the padlock body since I expect this would be something that the lock is good at resisting. Once I get through the padlock body it will be a breeze. You know? I think I might just do this.

Thanks for the encouragment.

[greyman]

Illusion, that is a nice cutaway. I was wondering if you should erase the serial number off the key photos. It might offend Ingersoll, who are pretty tight lipped about their codes.

[illusion]

Illusion, that is a nice cutaway. I was wondering if you should erase the serial number off the key photos. It might offend Ingersoll, who are pretty tight lipped about their codes.

Hmm... No, I don't feel inclined to.

[n2oah]

I've been thinking about doing an ingersoll padlock as a cutaway, but I just can't find one.

[illusion]

I've been thinking about doing an ingersoll padlock as a cutaway, but I just can't find one.

Ebay has one right now, and it's rare I've gone on, and not seen one.

Finding one under £30 is the challenge however.

[Shrub]

The padlocks will be dear as they are good locks and will also be hard to cut into, i have a pic of one but as i dont know the origin i cant post it,

The letteron the code states its series and the S on the one above means that its an S series lock which is a unrestricted version so codes arent that important, if it was a M (militry) then it may be worth thinking about but i cant imagine an issue becoming of it,

[devildog]

There was a guy selling brand new ingersoll padlocks on ebay (U.S.) every week for a while up until a few weeks ago; best bet for those padlocks is ebayUK (and you're in the UK, so that should be easy ).

[ju_]

The only hard part would be cutting into the padlock body since I expect this would be something that the lock is good at resisting.

Illusion I can honestly say that cutting into an Ingersoll padlock will take an angle grinder, alot of discs and patience.

[devildog]

He's back!

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZpartyman1977QQhtZ-1