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I sometimes wonder why they didn't keep the keyway to extract the key solid. That way they would have had a key retaining lock, which would have been...

[QUOTE=Steve48;292 This thread will now await completion of the painting of the body, so although this could take a while, I as someone once said...

Good find your safe there, lovely example and a fantastic restoration job

Whitfield from yesterday, single action boltwork and no curtain in the lock but externally looked very similar to the "City"

Corkscrew?

Doug, I just received the lock and newly constructed fence. I can honestly say you are as much an artist as a very talented technician. Thank...

Once soon a time I was a stripper! This is the first I have heard about the EU taking the most effective paint strippers away from us. The remaining...

Amen! I would love to go on a political rant but I will refrain. While I am fond of my restored safes, I cherish my AR-15 and it's compadres.

That is a job of which to be proud!

The lock box is now finished and will have to sit and wait for the safe body. As a matter of interest and thank you to all concerned I replaced the...

Most old ironmongers have gone here due to the sheds, or for the benefit of other nationalities the DIY stores and they don't sell this type of...

This is going off topic a bit! Can't you buy a can of caustic soda from an ironmonger or similar shop? What are the new knife laws?

Obviously my comments have to be based on my own country. Sadly the days when I could order chemicals from my local pharmacy have long gone. Perhaps...

Sorry for misleading! I haven't been in UK for decades. I am obviously horribly out of date. Couldn't you make your own with a powerful base such...

Thanks!

Nitromorse was without doubt the best paint stripper, and a coat of that and the paint ran away screaming. But not anymore Chubby, it has been down...

A strongly basic stripper, such as nitromorse or polystripper.

Several ways, but at home probably two that work. Paint stripper, but not the tame version the HSE in the UK has left us with. For old types of...

How can paint be stripped? Solvent? Sand blasting?

That is certainly different and heavier, mine is without doubt boiler plate on the outer skin and about five sixteenths of an inch thick, but with...

Steve, I hope that you are now well on the road to recovery. Purely for interests sake I am attaching a picture of what appears to be a heavier...

Sorry didn't see that. Good to know that it was restore and now inside the bank....Timothy.....

Although I am perhaps the last person to be politically correct, I think in England we tend to think of those following a different path as...

Check out this thread -- https://www.antique-locks.com/showthread.php/647-Historic-vault-door-unearthed-in-El-Paso-USA which includes updates and...

Nice to see I'm not the only fool restoring old safes. It is always a daunting time once they are in their naked glory and now the reconstruction...

I got laid low by a virus, but managed with a sunny day to strip off all the paint and rust, ready for some treatment...... Oh its upside down right...

Adrian, Myname is David Heuermann. I am the publisher of: http://antique-padlocks.com/ Ihave 4 Steinke locks listed on the website but I do...

Those are going to be hard to find as I never see any of them around here where I live (CA)). My only guess have to find a very old building that to...