What did you pick today?

[GWiens2001]

Sargent and Greenleaf Environmental Padlock. My first one, direct from macgng.
This ain't a little lock!







It had no key, but I intend to remedy that. . It is a 107.

Gordon

P.S. Does anybody know the cuts for a 108, 110, and 111 key? I know the rest of them from a post put up by Squelchtone.

[zeepia]

Nice job Gordon,

I don´t know those missing cuts but in the list there are only 8 possibilities for those 3 keys. It is not too much trouble to make all of them and then there´s all the keys you ever need

[l0ckcr4ck3r]

Yes, nice picking l0ckcr4ck3r! Those pins are tough. Is it just the lighting on the picture, or are the pins kind of dirty? The lock looks brand new on the outside, but the pins look like they have been around for a while. I have had the same thing happen when I bought an American Padlock (Aluminum body); it looked brand new on the outside, but when I took it apart, it was sort of dirty on the inside and the pins looked, not used, but not new? Perhaps it's because they are brass and get naturally tarnished?

In any case, good job on a tough lock!

thanks... enjoying this hobby a lot even though im fairly new to it... It was a brand new lock about 9 days ago but im guessing it is partly bad lighting and shadows. The other thing to consider is how long the locks been on the shelf. slight corrosion of the springs... cracking of their copper plating etc can all add up to get debris in the pin chambers and of course corrosion/tarnishing of the pins also.

[Hachronn]

...And congrats Hachronn, when I had just two weeks of picking I couldn't pick anything worth picking

Thanks fgarci03

[daniel22747]

I just picked my first Abus!

[fgarci03]

I just picked my first Abus!

Which one?

[teranaut]

I picked up a Defiant double key deadbolt so I could get a couple low security cylinders. Boy, is this thing low security. It practically falls open when you have the proper tension on it. I have a few Emharts that I bought , that I plan on diving into here shortly. They look like they have some fun warding to work around.

[femurat]

It's always nice to pick a huge padlock, even if it has a simple cylinder. I may impression a key for this...

Cheers

[daniel22747]

I just picked my first Abus!

Which one?

Number 41, 40mm

The key way was really small and I used my mini wallet picks to get it open. Regular picks were too big and tended to over set the pins. It felt like there was a least one spool pin in it.

[fgarci03]

@femurat, what kind of pins does that lock have?

@daniel, cool man! Most padlocks I pick I need to use another hook that fits in there nicely!

[femurat]

I guess it has 1 standard and 4 spools, like many others euro cylinders

[ARF-GEF]

Corbin is Italian ?
I though it was American?
Or is it totally different with Corbin-Russwind?

Anyway: congrats on the picking Femurat!

[femurat]

Yes Corbin is an Italian company. Now is part of the assa abloy group.

Cheers

[ARF-GEF]

SHIT man, everything is Assa-Ablyo now.

Fichet, Medeco, Ikon, corbin, keso, lips, lockwood, multilock, ruko, Sargent, tesa, trioving, union,vachette, yale and so on....

Almost all the significant lockmakers I can think of are theirs now.
And almost all high security locks I can think of.
Just imagine if 1 company had such monopoly over cars...
I wonder when the professionals realise that such an immense international concentration of locks is actually bad for everyone apart from Assa abloy. For lockies, for customers, for every other company...

This is really distorting the market, that most of the locks you can buy are in the hands of 1 big powerful international conglomerate who can do anything it wants. :S

[ARF-GEF]

LOL I love how the forum made "road apples" from the sh*t ...

but seriously, such monopoly pisses me off...
I can only think of Kaba, Evva and ABUS which are "free"... (as of now, but I heard they tried to buy Abus but couldn't ,and that they want to buy EVVA too... I'm not sure about KAba)