Vidmar SEA Key?

[flyboy1056]

Found a Key today looks like a neat lock. All I could find on it was it probably goes to a file cabinet. Nothing on the lock itself? Any one ever seen a key with Vidmar Sea Swiss maid on the back of the key is the key code A36 1219. I'm going to start scouring the base to try to find the lock that fits in. Sorry for the reversed pictures I'm limited to my web cam.

[Josh66]

We have a lot of Vidmar cabinets at work (a few different styles - some quite large) - but none that take a key like that. The ones we have are just regular 5-wafer tumblers (either that, or they have a hasp on them for a padlock).

[flyboy1056]

I'm thinking it might be some kind of high security cabinet military style. If you click this link you can see the whole key. it got cut off when I posted it.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj54 ... 529PM2.jpg
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj54 ... t529PM.jpg

[keysman]

here is some info:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKZ_xvQm_LE



http://www.stanleyvidmar.com/node/405

[Squelchtone]

keysmans video link led me own this road:

http://www.ausa.org/membership/sustaining/members/2010/PublishingImages/Stanley%20Vidmar%20container%20storage.jpg

cool keys! =)

Squelchtone

[flyboy1056]

Any one have any idea what kind of lock it is?

[Evan]

Any one have any idea what kind of lock it is?

@flyboy1056:

It looks like a "Bell type" mechanism set up as a convenience key
(meaning it is cut identically on both sides and can be inserted
either way into the lock) which is an improvement over the
original design...

I am not sure what the current policy regarding discussion of
this type of lock is because it is highly related to "laser track"
type automotive locks...

~~ Evan

[Emrys]

I've been curious about these locks for sometime too. Never could figure out how to pick it. Anyone know of any info for this lock in advanced forum?

[dicey]

This should be the SEA 10 wafer lock made in Switzerland.
It can be found in Graham W. Pulfords book at page 199 If I am not wrong!

I know a few big companies here in Germany which use that lock for their normal cabinets.

[kilae]

On http://www.stanleyvidmar.com you can read this.

Swiss manufacturer A&R Weidmar introduced the first modular-drawer cabinet in the 1940s. In 1958, John Kleinoder, a Brooklyn-based tool and die maker, arranged to manufacture Weidmar cabinets in the United States under the name “Vidmar.”

And in the west of Switzerland (where A&R Weidmar was) is SEA a popular lock manufacturer.
So I think in the starting, cabinets are produced with this locks systems, which there since 1949.
This key is an older SEA-Normal model. -> http://www.sea.ch/de/mechanik_prod.asp (german)

And YES you can pick it. Here a swiss military padlock.


kilae