A few locks I was asked to get the cores out of...

[GWiens2001]

Was at my favorite lock shop recently, and they told me to hang on, they had some padlocks the boss wanted me to get the cores out of. Apparently the customer nearly went ballistic when they said they could get the cores out simply by drilling them.



Convair and Convair Astronautics (notice - astronautics, not aeronautics)



Property of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation and General Dynamics Astronomics (again, note astro, not aero)



Already got two cores out.



Man, wish these were in my collection instead of the customer's collection.

Gordon

[billdeserthills]

Those are cool padlocks, any 5 pin cores there?
My Dad challenged me one time to make a tension wrench to fit the small ejector holes in the bottom of the control cylinder,
to facilitate direct tension on the control lug. It worked for me and wound up being a rare occurance of me beating him at something

[GWiens2001]

They are six pin cores. And have had limited luck with control tensioners. Sometimes they work, sometimes not.

Gordon

[Wizer]

Thats pretty cool!
These are European locks?

[GWiens2001]

No, they are from the USA. The brand is BEST. The lock format is SFIC.

Gordon

[Mitchell S]

Gordon have you posted a thread with pictures of your collection? I'd love to see it!!

[GWiens2001]

Yes, but it is so hopelessly out of date as to be laughable. Almost none of my high security or unusual locks are in that thread.

Gordon

[Mitchell S]

Yes, but it is so hopelessly out of date as to be laughable. Almost none of my high security or unusual locks are in that thread.

Gordon

Might be time to get to work on posting some updated pictures!!

[Comrade627]

Yes, but it is so hopelessly out of date as to be laughable. Almost none of my high security or unusual locks are in that thread.

Gordon

Might be time to get to work on posting some updated pictures!!

Something we all need to do.