What did you pick today?

[Robotnik]

This was a) far and away the most difficult Kwikset I've ever opened, and b) the only Kwikset mortise I've ever personally seen.

Tolerances were extraordinarily tight. Too bad the brand is cheap mass market garbage today.

[jeffmoss26]

Wow, where did you find that?

[dhk42]

The world's most challenging Master 140...



David

[Jacob Morgan]

VonDuprin apparently made mortise cylinders once upon a time. KW1 blank fits it.


Something strange about it, when it is locked the keyway is rotated somewhat counter-clockwise. The shell was drilled by the factory from the bottom. Works fine, maybe it was miss-drilled at the factory?

[GWiens2001]

This was a) far and away the most difficult Kwikset I've ever opened, and b) the only Kwikset mortise I've ever personally seen.

Tolerances were extraordinarily tight. Too bad the brand is cheap mass market garbage today.

No wonder it was a tough pick. That is a very early one, before they became ultra-cheap.

Gordon

[Robotnik]

Wow, where did you find that?

H4H ReStore, of all places. Couldn't resist picking it up for the price.

[TORCH [of KCK]]

A late entry for yesterday,
(Hectic day)

Started day with ABUS 72/40
(1st time on ABUS, received evening prior)

Then, ended up unwinding for bed with;

* Master #1, & #77

* M1 clone
(only marked," us patent no. 3979931")

* American  series L50

* Yale made for "Empire"
(bronze padlock)

[OrMeanGene]

Wow, where did you find that?

H4H ReStore, of all places. Couldn't resist picking it up for the price.

Im thinking we are alternating taking out their selections...
Its always slim pickings when i go

[Eazy123]

Picked 4 wafer locks today - the Corbin and RFD Mail lock on the right confuse me - I got them off eBay, but the warding disc spins when I try using the tension tool, plus I see/feel no pins inside. Almost like the plug is totally missing in both...?

[kwoswalt99-]

They look like warded locks, not wafer locks.

[Eazy123]

They look like warded locks, not wafer locks.

Right - the ones I picked were wafers. The two on the right I don't know what to do with.

Edit: just got what you meant. I'll have to look up how those work. Thanks!

[Eazy123]

Here's another from the same batch that I'm having issues with - I just pop one pin in the back and it turns 15 degrees, almost like to control, and all pins are bound tight, but it doesn't do anything. There also seem to be holes in the bottom of the plug like the control sleeves in my Best SFIC cores, but using the IC tension wrench doesn't give me any results. I wouldn't think the cores are supposed to pop out of these?!?

[adi_picker]

Gday Guys,

Thought I drop these most recent here as part of the 'I Ain't Dead' series.

Lockwood 234L

These are tough. The feedback is very very slight, so when you pick em, the little click you feel before the big click, thats the one you want. The big click? That's just the pins over-setting

Old 6 Pin Corbin Padlock (Thanks OrMeanGene!)


If anyone can help me identify the model of this lock, please let me know If done a bit of Google for 'Vintage Corbin Padlock' and such, and have found a few hits, but never an exact model number.

While on the subject of identification, Im also looking for a model for this Yale, also one I got from OrMeanGene.


Wink-Haus VS (Thanks MacGNG)

Cool cool lock. Very precise, required a very large amount of lifting, some very high cuts on this, and combined with the keyway..

I've also had a few more firsts, mostly through getting stuff in through my trades with OrMeanGene and MacGNG. Managed to open my BEST with the A keyway, both to control and operating. Opened a UChange, a cakewalk, probably close to the easiest lock I have opened. Opened the 3 wafer Yale pictured above, and another old 5 Pin Corbin Padlock. Thanks to everyone who's traded with me recently, my collection is really starting to build! Cant wait for my new parcel of American eBay stuff to arrive..

Challenge locks I am working at, but never can seem to open? An EVVA DPI with 6 sliders, and the ASSA Twin 6000 from GWiens. The EVVA has been my latest trouble lock. The sliders have false gates on them, and whenever I try to push past these to the true gates, I get pins dropping everywhere! Im only a slider away from victory, but its still fighting me, and I broke quite a few of my picks trying to harden them, leaving me without the tools. Just maddening! The ASSA has been banished to the pile for a little bit, those crazy T pins are killing me.

On that note, be very careful if you are trying to repair your Peterson picks. I had a couple bent from my expedition into the DPI and decided to straighten them up and harden them to get some of thier strength back. After straightening, I heated them to glowing and quenched them in some motor oil. They all ended up too brittle and snapped under light use. Im not sure if it was my technique, or the 'Government Steel', but I liked them a lot better before I did that! It did give me an excuse to have a binge on the Peterson website though, so really looking forward to all the new ones I have coming.

-adi_picker

[Eazy123]

[OrMeanGene]

Doing easier pickings today. Or fewer i suppose.



And playing with ruko too.