Twiskee patents and/or history?

[wylk]

Has anybody disassembled a Twiskee lock? I have three bodies (one without shackle, one without key, and a working key/lock). I intend to dig into the body-only one but none of the three show any clue how they were assembled.

[mercury]

I've never owned, yet alone disassembled a twiskee padlock, but given it looks as if they are brass body padlock, the following may help.

I'm sure you've seen the telltale marks on brass pin tumbler padlocks, showing where the plugs covering the pin chamber drillings etc are?

If you cannot find such marks anywhere on your lock, take a ball pein hammer and use the ball side of it to tap gently all over the housing. Any brass plugs will become visible & hopefully this will get you started in the right direction.

Hope that helps,

...Mark