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Rotating Pins and Sidebars

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Rotating Pins and Sidebars

Postby blueduck » 9 Sep 2006 2:35

I was reading about the medeco high security padlocks, and they claim to have a "unique elevating and rotating tumbler pin system". I don't believe that I will be able to open one of these any time soon (not that I can spend $90 on a lock anyways :roll: ), but I'm curious on what this "elevating and rotating" pin is. Like, how do pins "rotate"??

I've tried to look up info on what this means, but I havent found anything about "rotating" pins :shock:

Would someone be so kind as to explain this theory?

Also, as a side note, what's a sidebar, and what's it supposed to do?
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Postby What » 9 Sep 2006 2:47

search for medeco and biaxial you can find plenty of info.

techniques for picking these are advanced material sorry.
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Postby Shrub » 9 Sep 2006 4:40

The pins are rotated by angled cuts on the key, as said explanation on these locks with picking details arent for public consumption, its a suppriseing 1st post but welcome to the site,
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Postby linty » 9 Sep 2006 8:11

viewtopic.php?t=14815&highlight=biaxial

there are some pictures of biaxial pins near the end of that thread. just seeing the pins makes it a bit clearer how the lock might work.
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med icko

Postby raimundo » 9 Sep 2006 8:17

go to your biggest local locksmiths and look around for all the glossy literature on medeco, theres some high end mechanical drawings that will help you.
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Postby What » 9 Sep 2006 13:32

Shrub wrote:The pins are rotated by angled cuts on the key, as said explanation on these locks with picking details arent for public consumption, its a suppriseing 1st post but welcome to the site,

aww, i was trying to get him to start using his search-fu...
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Postby blueduck » 11 Sep 2006 17:39

Thanks for the replies. The pics in the biaxial thread were helpful and I found a lot of helpful diagrams from the "Lock Breakdown Diagram" sticky.
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