Masterlock 1630, info much?

[Anastasis]

A friend of mine has a locker in his garage, and I noticed the lock and was interested in it. Its a Masterlock 1630 (comparison from pics on the site) combination lock with a keyhole on the dial.

Anyone know anything about these?

[dougfarre]

The tumbler lock in the center is very easy to pick if you have very small mini picks

[kg4boj]

I impressioned one of those little M2 (master 2) keyways (or is it M1...) today, they arent nearly as hard as you might think.

[mercurial]

The Master 1630 is a lock made by Master specifically for lockers.

The keyhole in the centre is an override - allowing the keyholder (owner of ALL the lockers) to open them without the combination.

On other combination locks, you may find a keyhole in the centre of the dial, that actually locks the dial in place, so that a key must be used, before the combination can be dialled. This is not the case with the Master 1630.

This lock can also switch between 5 different combinations with the press of a button - allowing the combination of the lock to be changed to one of the 5 preset combinations each time the locker is allocated to a new person, locking out the previous user.

I don't think any further information about these belongs in the public forums.

...Mark