All bark and no bite!!!

[horsefeathers]

Customer lost keys to this beast that he had on his garage door, so when asked to open it I felt a long morning ahead of me.......but after fiddling around trying to get the right tension tool for five mins, to defeat the thick antipick rotating disc, I then set to work and popped it open it less than a minute.

Made by Squire and is a real heavyweight. Got the word 'hardened' stamped all over it. Here it is and the tools I used.



and the keyway - notice the thick 'hardened' rotating disc in front of the plug.





Looking down the open shackle end I saw and unscrewed an allen key headed bolt. Incidentally, this could be drilled out with a large bit, bypassing all the hardened stuff, and the core would fall out. Here is the core, and even this has 'hardened' plates either side.




Here is the core disassembled....




Notice the puny plug. Well I wasnt fooled so opened it up expecting mushrooms etc and this was what was in it....





Not one!!!! Apart from having six pin stacks there is nothing to fear.

Bring 'em on!

regards

[UWSDWF]

that is some terrible keying.... the key gotta look almost flat

[TOWCH]

Is that a standard sized cylinder? Looks like a decent lock body.

[Eyes_Only]

Haha, a sheep in wolves clothing.

[horsefeathers]

Is that a standard sized cylinder? Looks like a decent lock body.

Nope - smaller than standard, barely an inch long. You could sneeze it open.

[illusion]

Nice one horsefeathers.

Interesting pick you have there - where did ya get it mate?

Sometimes bigger doesn't mean badder - but then the big Medeco, Ingersoll S&G creep into view and remind you that it's not always the case.

[Shrub]

I had the same thing except mine was a difficult biteing and it did take a few mins to pop it to be honest,

Ive still got the one i did here but with no key, from memory they are the Squire Stronghold but i could be having a memory burp as that doesnt seem to sound right

[horsefeathers]

Ive still got the one i did here but with no key, from memory they are the Squire Stronghold but i could be having a memory burp as that doesnt seem to sound right

Correct,
but eeerrrrr....maybe your eyesight is going! Look at my third pic and you will see HS4 Stronghold stamped in it..... just to confirm!

The pick is simply a falle curve I ground out from an old hacksaw blade based on pics posted on this forum. It is my preferred pick for padlocks.

[Shrub]

I can now youve pointed it out

Sorry i tend to skip pics of locks i know and just sort of speed look at them,

[grim]

Here it is and the tools I used.

dude. trim your nails. your thumbnail looks like a boxcutter!

[Bump]

Not detracting from the satifaction in the act of picking the lock open...well done, nor the quality of the post, great pictures, and as it only took a few minutes its worth giving it a go.

From a commercial point of view would you have persisted with the picks as the customer had lost the keys ? so when asked to open it I felt a long morning ahead of me.......

Me thinks I can hear the sound of an angle grinder strating up after 5 minutes.

[horsefeathers]

Not detracting from the satifaction in the act of picking the lock open...well done, nor the quality of the post, great pictures, and as it only took a few minutes its worth giving it a go.

From a commercial point of view would you have persisted with the picks as the customer had lost the keys ? so when asked to open it I felt a long morning ahead of me.......

Me thinks I can hear the sound of an angle grinder strating up after 5 minutes.

Nope - for the simple reason that I do not own an angle grinder!!

Ya keep going till the job is done, plus he was a repeat customer (did his house locks) so wouldn't have given in. Percy Verance is my middle name!

regards

[raimundo]

when ya put it back together, put the longest pin next to the shortest, and put short pins in the back behind longer ones.

[Bump]

Not detracting from the satifaction in the act of picking the lock open...well done, nor the quality of the post, great pictures, and as it only took a few minutes its worth giving it a go.

From a commercial point of view would you have persisted with the picks as the customer had lost the keys ? so when asked to open it I felt a long morning ahead of me.......

Me thinks I can hear the sound of an angle grinder strating up after 5 minutes.

Nope - for the simple reason that I do not own an angle grinder!!

Ya keep going till the job is done, plus he was a repeat customer (did his house locks) so wouldn't have given in. Percy Verance is my middle name!

More power to your elbow!

[2octops]

Not detracting from the satifaction in the act of picking the lock open...well done, nor the quality of the post, great pictures, and as it only took a few minutes its worth giving it a go.

From a commercial point of view would you have persisted with the picks as the customer had lost the keys ? so when asked to open it I felt a long morning ahead of me.......

Me thinks I can hear the sound of an angle grinder strating up after 5 minutes.

Amen!

Usually on a padlock, I don't even give it 5 minutes.