Stopped by a couple of yard sales this morning. As usual, looking for locks and safes. Most people don’t put those kinds of things on their yard sales, so I usually ask. “I have an unusual hobby, and find it does not hurt to ask… Do you have any old or unusual locks or safes, with or without keys or combinations?”
Most of the time, the answer is no. This morning, one of the other ‘shoppers’ said that he had a few locks if I want to see them. He took me a couple of doors down, and showed me this box.
$10, he said.
Sold! Nothing outstanding, but not bad for $10.
Looks like the ends of a bicycle lock, but this one has a door chain connection. Did not take long to figure out the combination.
Tiny warded suitcase lock. Meh.
Small warded Master lock
Two combination locks. Looked up the combo for the one on the right. On the left, the serial number was out of range of my books… by less than 500 numbers.
Took five minutes to figure that one out. (Thanks for posting the technique, Oldfast!)
Two identical Eagle pin tumbler padlocks. The right one has a fair bit of corrosion, but both work fine.
They still had the 3-D Eagle on the keys.
Triwell padlock
Eagle wafer padlock
Fort heavy padlock
With Tubular keys
Two identical HURD marine locks, except that one has a longer shackle. (You can figure out which one is which.)
Not exactly complicated warding.
Fraim pin tumbler padlock
Gordon
