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by DrTrabold » 3 Jul 2017 18:21
I need help opening an old steamer chest, circa 1930's. The lock is a Yale with a corrugated style key, lock code 446. (Picture at http://imgur.com/a/pjnyg)  Does any one have information on a key for the lock, the style of Yale blank that could be used to make a bump key; how many cylinders in such a lock, assuming it's that type of lock; etc.; or, perhaps, other information on how to pick it? (Please do not respond with "Take it to a locksmith." or "Have you tried to pry it open?" That would be a waste of both of our time, and, quite frankly, just rude. I'm not stupid, or so said my doctoral committee years ago.) Thanks in advance.
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by mseifert » 3 Jul 2017 18:43
The usual answer here is that we are not in the business of helping people break into lock containers. I am sure with your advanced degree you can understand this concept.
When I finally leave this world.. Will someone please tell my wife what I have REALLY spent on locks ...
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by WilsonTrucking » 3 Jul 2017 22:10
Smart in one field does not equal smart in all. If it did, Mr. Doctor, you wouldn't be here on these forums. Just FYI, you get further in life with sugar than you do with vinegar.
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by ltdbjd » 4 Jul 2017 0:30
Take it to a locksmith.
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by tjohn » 4 Jul 2017 7:51
first: grab some gloves a face mask and some little foot booties
second: hire as many cute blonde ladies as you can to stand around handing you tools
third: open up your WebMD app to page 349
fourth: grab a scalpel, three syringes, and that weird metal thing that cost $2300 but no one knows what it really does
fifth: cleanse the lock really well with alcohol
sixth: call in 3 other friends from your doctoral committee to have a quick conference on the viability of using that unknown $2300 tool
seventh: decide the surgery would be better off postponed due to a discrepancy in information
Eight: call the buddies you did your residency with and hash out a game plan for golf
Nine: sign off on the $300,021 bill you plan to send out for "exploratory surgery prep"
Ten: go to the corner store & grab that 30 pack of bud light and head out while complaining about a long hard day at work
Eleven: Call a locksmith
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by GWiens2001 » 4 Jul 2017 7:57
tjohn, That was rude. Did you deliberately not mention 3.5 (between 3 and 4), which is to get preauthorization from your healthcare company? Can you imagine this poor guy trying to get it sorted out with the insurance company after the fact??? Gordon
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by tjohn » 4 Jul 2017 8:07
yep, deliberately That's how they roll
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by mseifert » 4 Jul 2017 9:24
Guessing he will not be replying to this thread
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by ltdbjd » 4 Jul 2017 10:47
I can tell by the way he wrote the post that he isn't an MD. It's been a while since college psychology, but if I recall correctly, wasn't "MD Envy" a component of Freud's psychoanalytic theory?
I guess it has to be. I'm not stupid either. Or so says my mommy.
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by Squelchtone » 4 Jul 2017 12:31
ltdbjd wrote:I can tell by the way he wrote the post that he isn't an MD. It's been a while since college psychology, but if I recall correctly, wasn't "MD Envy" a component of Freud's psychoanalytic theory?
I guess it has to be. I'm not stupid either. Or so says my mommy.
I think his member name having Dr in it and having to overtly mention he has a doctorate seems like someone is very insecure and lets their doctorate define who they are in life.
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by mseifert » 4 Jul 2017 13:37
When I finally leave this world.. Will someone please tell my wife what I have REALLY spent on locks ...
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by Jacob Morgan » 4 Jul 2017 14:13
There is an industry now of for-profit colleges and "earn your masters in five weeks" types of programs. That has resulted in the need for more PhD's to be the teachers for such programs and there is a whole crop of them out there.
I think, in the US at least, that a high school diploma from before WWII was about equal to a bachelor's degree post-WWII, and a Master's degree after around 1990 is equal to a Bachelor's degree before then. Fairly soon a PhD will be the equivalent of an eighth-grade education from before WWII. Only then the eight-grade education will come with a six-figure price tag.
I have told my kids several times not to bother with college unless they want to go into something that really requires it, and will pay for it. And that there is nothing wrong whatsoever with trade school and earning a living from the get-go instead of racking up debt. I really like what Mike Rowe has to say about the subject.
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by ratlock » 4 Jul 2017 14:55
"That would be a waste of both of our time" Not a degree in English. Unless time in its singular use was, to suppose our time was freely given.
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by Silverado » 5 Jul 2017 6:52
Come on now, he just wanted to point out how much smarter, better, and more successful he is than we are. (While asking a question he could have easily solved using Google....) 
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