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    In case some of you haven't seen this rarity, fitted to a major uk banks heavy vault doors in response to them learning that the existing locks fitted being pickable.
    I believe The great Tommy Watson had a hand in its design although he had not seen one in real life until I got him one.
    Clever well thought out lock, even has a lever belly wiper on the barrel and curtain to stop scrape mark reading.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gary Stephenson View Post
    In case some of you haven't seen this rarity, fitted to a major uk banks heavy vault doors in response to them learning that the existing locks fitted being pickable.
    I believe The great Tommy Watson had a hand I its design although he had not seen one in real life until I got him one.
    Clever well thought out lock, even has a lever belly wiper on the barrel and curtain to stop scrape mark reading.
    It confuses me why they didnt make the false notches the same width as the actual gating.

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    Wow Gary thats a rare one, just goes to show you can't go wrong with the 'if in doubt convert it to pipe keys and make a new curtain' principle ! I'm amazed Chubb done it on those though, and noticed its a proper brass curtain instead of those daft duralumin ones. Very nice lock though and looks to be in pristine condition.

    Tom, theres a mating groove cut down the stump in order for them to bite.

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    Gary I'm slow today it's only just sunk in that you called it the 6K204,which got me thinking Chubb gave it a complete new number instead of it just being a special, although thinking about it they couldn't use the 6K174case because they opted for the drill pin from the case and not in the curtain, for strength I suppose.

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    A wonderful lock!

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    It will have been to replace the 6k18 keylock and from memory was fitted to 8 and 10" v@ult doors, with the notching on the stump and levers, you could probably get a little bit of free play even in a notch if it wasn't fully bound, so it would have felt like a gate. Don't know if Tommy ever comes on here, but he would know more about it.

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    In case some of you haven't seen this rarity, fitted to a major uk banks heavy vault doors in response to them learning that the existing locks fitted being pickable.

    Are you saying this lock is un-pickable?

    DH

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    This was designed by Tom specifically to counter the Falle Pin & Cam pick that could defeat the standard isolator keylock.

    This would be a challenge for sure - I would not say it's unpickable but how it could be done would need careful thought (a lot ! of thought) !

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