anker lock

[ridderhenck]

I was wondering,does anyone have experience with anker skg 2 locks?

[Shark78]

City Anker is a high security lock. It is composed of magnet pins and mechanical pins. The magnet pins are not so sophisticated. it is just and binary system; the pins are polarised + or -. So you can detect the polarity of each pins and make a false key. For the other normal pins, you can pick them but it is not so easy.
I join you a picture of the lock.

[Safety0ff]

The magnet pins are not so sophisticated. it is just and binary system; the pins are polarised + or -. So you can detect the polarity of each pins and make a false key.

Are you sure? I think there's 4 different orientation (so 24 different sliders.)

[Fredmad]

SafetyOff is right. There is 24 differents sliders :
- 8 differents sliders for comune locks with generally 1 magnet on each slider. They are called R-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z
- 16 differents sliders for masterkey system with 2 magnets on each slider. They are called A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-O-P-Q

Each magnet could be positiv Or negativ (binary system) but there are magnets which are positiv AND negativ.

For the pins you have 4 differents sizes.

[greyman]

Shark78

That's a nice picture of an Anker magnetic lock. Is it yours? If not, you should perhaps say where you got it from

Apart from that, the Anker is a bit more complicated than just "binary" since there are up to two magnets in each tumbler, as others here have already mentioned.

A write-up is also in my book (chapter on magnetic locks). Click on my signature.