One King West, Toronto

[RiemannHypothesis]

Hey VaultDoors :)

Interesting Bunker, you have there :D Okay, about the material:

1. If you want to have it made of aluminum, the size cant be the original, because of the weight. BUT on the other hand you have the nice metal feeling when you touch it.
2. If you take wood (beech would be good), the scale could be much bigger, so more at the size of the original RCV.

To your questions:

1. Yes
2. At least the knobs should rotate
3. Depends on the detail of the interior.
4. Yes
5. Not necessarily.

Best regards

Maik

[VaultDoors]

The object mounted on the door jamb is used to release the time lock snubber in the event someone is locked in:


It is operated by a small hand crank that passes thru the day gate:

[wylk]

Some other pictures of the release mechanism:

[VaultDoors]

Excellent pics, thank you for posting!

[wylk]

In another thread it was mentioned that the side plate of the combo viewer has been replaced with Plexiglas. Here are a few images --

[wylk]

I was asked about the interpretive sign next to the controls. This is hopefully readable:

[VaultDoors]

The sign reads:

THE VAULT AT ONE KING WEST

TAKE A MOMENT AND CHECK OUT THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE LOCKING DEVICE.

After a century, the craftsmanship remains intact. Look inside the viewfinder, turn the crank, activate the light and look back in time to see a finely tuned machine.

What you are looking at is a time lock with two little wheels that adjust the time. Turning the big wheel moves the locking pin into place.

< TAKE A CLOSER LOOK

PRESS THE BUTTON TO ACTIVATE THE LIGHT

There is a failsafe inside the vault that can release the lock in case someone is accidentally locked inside.

VAULT FACT

[wylk]

The frame-side boltwork operating pins are shown below. The top pin was extended and the lower pin was withdrawn. I did not play with the controls.



Above, there is a small "box" that guides the pins and provides a place for one of the locking bolts. Behind that is a larger box for the combination locks and such. There is a "drag mark" leading away from the lower pin most likely made by the door's corresponding pin, during an opening or closing.



Above, generally the same view but with flash which brings out different details.



Above, a different view. The pin looks like it has been dinged and there is a gouge in the frame as well as another drag mark on the right side of the image. There is also a small pin that looks like it might be an interlock of some sort for the larger boltwork-operating pin but that's just a guess. Dings and marks have been commented on in earlier posts.

[VaultDoors]

Here is an interior view of a remote combination viewer vault door closed and locked. This is one of two rectangular vault doors located at the Industrial Trust Bank in Rhode Island. If anyone has pics of other closed and locked remote combo vaults please share, thx.

[timelocks]

The time lock on this vault was originally a Sargent & Greenleaf Model M. It has since been altered to accept modern and much smaller Swiss movements. The original configuration would have looked like this example