Bramah challenge padlock

[Gary Stephenson]

Didn't Hobbs cheat with the Bramah lock anyway? drilling a hole to take off the spring pressure from the sliders and then disguising the drilled hole?

[oldlock]

Didn't Hobbs cheat with the Bramah lock anyway? drilling a hole to take off the spring pressure from the sliders and then disguising the drilled hole?

The contemporary accounts certain infer that the lock was mucked around with and not in the best internal condition afterwards. The slides of the time where made by iron and it is suggested that hobbs had bent these to keep them in place once picked. When rebuilt steel slides, very heavily false notched were fitted, each with it's own spring.