October 20th meeting

[Jason Jones]

A great meeting and excellent displays, and we got to play with the Chatwood letter lock or SAM lock

[Syd Waterman]

Shout out to Chris Taylor for an excellent hands on demonstration of how dismantle and service Chatwood's SAM lock.
The SAM lock was patented in 1888 and was still being manufactured in 1936.

[Huw Eastwood]

They are beautiful locks from a time when cost was the least consideration and brass and phosphor bronze were used everywhere- often half an inch thick !
can honestly say never saw a single one out in the field in all my years doing safes- the only ones I ever saw were those that Chris Taylor took around the MLA meetings, and from memory he once had a table covered with them !

[Gary Stephenson]

the first combination lock I came across when starting out, was given a cloth bank cash bag full of SAM parts and told, see if you can get that back together

[Doug MacQueen]

A few pics of the one I had a few years back.