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Termyn8or -> RE: Now I did it (2/16/2007 6:14:43 PM)
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Now that would be interesting Zunk. If I can actually manage to pick it. I guess you saw the laminations and knew it is that type of lock. Actually picking it would be an interesting challenge, no hacksaw, perhaps a paper clip.
I actually picked a glovebox lock, later I went to a locksmith to get a trunk key. Yes I had bought the car, and there was no trunk key, thus no glove box key. But you don't balk when you buy a 1970 Olds Toromado for $225. This was in 1975 and it already had over 100,000 miles on it, and it was running on two cylinders. When I got done with it I was 17, it was bought when I was 15. This thing was dangerous, and so was I.
Anyway, so much for that tangent, while at the locksmith, who is a friend of my Mother's, he showed me a trick. A glovebox lock has five tumblers and a trunk lock has six. So how did he know where to cut the other one ? he had this cool looking deal that he turned around to five positions, setting it each time. After that he pulled the trigger of the device and it cut the last cut in the key, but that is not the trick. The trick was with a padlock. He had a rope in a vice on the hasp and a belt pulling hard on the lock body, he looked at the keyhole and smacked it with a hammer. It opened. This obviously works because of the spring loaded locking pawl.
However I don't think this method is going to work for me now.
Pickability was not the reason I chose that lock. It was expendability. I have about ½ dozen small padlocks, figure out the reasons (he he). They all have the nomal tumbler locks. I store them with the keys in them, locked. If the key doesn't work the lock can't be used. The reason I do this is a lock failed. Now I test them several times before using them. One day one lock failed to open. It wasn't being used at the time, but if it would've happened a day earlier, I could be dead.
Anyway, one reason this lock was expendable is that there was only one key for it, and the key will not stay in that type of lock.
The time is going to come though, eventually. Bolt cutters won't work, the hasp just barely fits throught the hole in the locking pin. It must either be ground or sawed. I could always cut the pin, but then next is the steel pin. I dunno if I am ready for that.
Would I cut the pin ? I know full well that I would replace it with a stainless steel pin. That removes that option, hence my reluctance to cut it like that. Once the steel lockpin is in place, and a good quality lock, hardened and all that, I guess the sparks would be hitting ME through the top vent holes, leaving me a reminder of my stay in the penis prison. I could cover the vents with tape, but it had better be non-flammable. Imagine that, the tape catching on fire ! That is not a good place for a fire.
I have thought it out, I can't hold the Dremel myself in the right position, and I can't just have the sparks fly in my eyes. That only leaves so many options. (the best option would be so the sparks flew straight out, if that's the case, if the bit grabs, it will go into my skin slightly over the device, imagine going getting stitches)
There's another problem, what if I get into a car wreck. Weather has been nasty. It happens alot.
You want a defensive driving course ? Ride with me. No I do not go slow, but I don't speed, except for 5 MPH or so on the freeway, when traffic permits. I try to be as aware as possible. Even when I know I have the right of way I think, does THAT person know that I have the right of way ?
More later, have a few things to do.
T
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