rusirius wrote:Forgive me for resurrecting an old thread, especially one with some many dick pictures in it...
But I have absolutely 0 experience with anything this old and I'm just curious... Does that thing even have a standard cam and nose? In my mind I'm just imagining nothing but 3 wheels and a fence riding directly on them. I dunno, maybe it's just me being naive but I'm just imagining a monkey being able to manipulate that thing open.. LOL
Look up "direct entry" safe locks. You have the dial, which is connected to the spindle, which inside the lock is connected to the driver wheel, which will have a pin, screw, or other protrustion on it that when the dial is turned, which in turn makes the driver wheel turn, will then transfer that motion by picking up a combination wheel, which if you keep turning the dial then picks up another combination wheel etc. each combination wheel, including the driver wheel will have a gate in the shape of a deep rectangle, once you dial the combination, depending on the make and age of the sage, you may have to dial the driver to a particular number which then allows the bolt work to be directly pushed into the gates of all of the wheels.
This pic shows the silver part that enters the wheel gates once they are all aligned in that direction via dialing the combination, the big beige wheel is the handle that you retract the bolts with. Notice the false gates all around the driver wheel, very common to thwart casual manipulation.
