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(Not So) Masterlock

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  • Started 12 years ago by Wilmington's Cow
  • Latest reply from crowriver

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  1. Grrrr...!

    A while back I decided to get a combination cable lock to use instead of the chunky chain and padlock I was using. It was basically easier to use, especially where there's only a drainpipe to lock to.

    Last night the damned thing wouldn't open. It has, once, changed the number without me doing anything, but fortunately I noticed that and spotted what had changed. I think that's what happened again. But there was no way I could work out the number. So there was a call home for delivery of (chdot's) bolt cutters.

    Positive of the experience:
    A security guard from my work came round to check my ID (after presumably seeing me on CCTV).

    Negative of the experience:
    It took roughly 7 seconds to get through a cable that, allegedly, was rated 7 out of Masterlock's scale of 10; and obivoulsy I now don't have the lock.

    Found the key to my old chain, so that's nae bother (can't find the key to my old D-Lock).

    Boooo to Masterlock!

    Posted 12 years ago #
  2. crowriver
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    It took roughly 7 seconds to get through a cable that, allegedly, was rated 7 out of Masterlock's scale of 10

    Presumably the '10' takes 10 seconds?

    Hard cheese, old chap. Last time I had a combination chain lock was sometime in the early 1990s, for my 10 speed racer...

    One word: ABUS. You won't regret it.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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