White paper: A guide to the manipulation of various combination locks

Nigel Tolley

White paper: A guide to the manipulation of various combination locks

There have been many people who have reviewed and tested safe combination locks, including large organisations such as Underwriters Labatory and the British Standards Institute. It is the same with door locks, and insurance grade keyed padlocks. However, when I was recently asked to provide a secure combination lock for a set of factory gates,

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Going Green

As mobile emergency locksmiths we do a lot of miles. We have to come to you! So recently, we looked at how we could further reduce our carbon footprint as a company. We already have modern fuel efficient vans, with super lubricant low friction engine coatings, simply because of fuel costs, so there was little

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uPVC and the cold

This time of year, locksmiths get a lot of calls about uPVC style doors that won’t lock. This is fairly common, and is simply because the door, which wasn’t perfectly adjusted to begin with, has shrunk enough that the mechanism won’t throw fully. A toe-and-heel job is required, and the issue goes away. Don’t force

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year, to both my readers! /me waves to googlebot. Trying to go to a job this morning, it took me 15 minutes to get up the drive. I was on the verge of giving up, and it was only a quarter inch of snow. However, good driving prevailed, and I even managed to

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Rogue Traders on “locksmiths” ‘down sarf’

Seems there are a few rogue locksmiths running around down near Essex and London, and by charging over £200 a time to open simple – no, trivial – locks to gain entry for lock-outs, they got picked up and set up by Rogue Traders. You can watch the action at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fztby/b00fzl3c/Rogue_Traders_Series_7_Emergency_Call_Out/ and trust me, it

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