German Lock Box (picture heavy)

[GWiens2001]

[youtube][/youtube]German Lock Box

Was asked by some lockie friends to open/make a key for this box. Wish it was mine.



May not look all that exciting, but there were a couple things I liked about it.

First, had to pick it open. Good old music wire to the rescue again.

[img]http://i1146.photobucket.com/albums/o525/GWiens2001/German%20Lock%20Box/2566e8e72b8f4146715f373c0a

[torontosafecracker]

Reasons like this is why I keep a box of old keys around, trial and error, Or if you know how to impression a key, you could do that.

[jeffmoss26]

Gordon, you second link does not work. I was able to browse the whole album though, very nice work!!

[spoonzor]

Here is all the German (lock box) porn: http://s1146.photobucket.com/user/GWiens2001/library/German%20Lock%20Box?sort=2&page=1

What is that electric stuff in the bottom? A very crude alarm of some kind? Will that alarm go off any time the box is opened or is it actually a triggered by tempering (shaking/moving/tilting)?

Hilarious that it actually uses the box itself as a alarm bell (it will sound by banging on the wall of the box). Nifty.

[GWiens2001]

From what I saw, it looks that the alarm goes off when the box is lifted. Not the lid - the box itself.

Gordon

[bembel]

Hilarious that it actually uses the box itself as a alarm bell (it will sound by banging on the wall of the box). Nifty.

The alarm bell is indeed pretty cool. This must have been made before cheap piezo speakers were used on everything.

[mechanical_nightmare]

Gordon, well done with the impressioning/picking. I just started making lever lock picks this past weekend (finally). Will make a post when I first pick one.

On the alarm at the bottom of the box, that looks like an old reed-switch sensor. How else would the sensor indicate an alarm condition when the box is lifted? The only other one I can think of would be a mercury switch.