Re: Lever locks gutted
When picking it, ( without the benefits of seeing inside). What feels like a 7 lever lock ,isn't a 7 lever lock.
What is being moved in the place of the 7th lever is a plate that moves a floating bolt stump.
If you move it, your pick gets trapped, and you can't get to the 6 actual normal levers.
Capt Dunc pointed out that this also has the effect of foiling any attempt to overlift the lock.
Looking at the lock now, with the benefits of hindsight, you would just tension as normal, and leave the stump plate in position 7 alone, and pick levers 1 to 6 as normal.
Last year when trying to open this, lock. I hadn't enough experience to get an open.
But after coaching from we11ington, and Capt Dunc, can now apply a more reasoned approach to picking a lock, and interpret what's happening on the inside.