Fri May 18, 2012 10:02 pm
Angal KIK (Mul-T-Lock clone) disassembly
I'm unsure of where exactly I should post this, but this sub seems like the most relevant. If there is a better home please feel free to move it.
I've been playing with this lock for awhile now and as I've not seen much info on it I thought I'd throw up some pictures of what's inside. I'm not very familiar (at all) with MTL, but from what I've read this is pretty much the cheap version of one. It's a 5 (10?) pin dimple lock with telescoping pin stacks and serrated drivers.
Now for the good bits.
The inner keypins have a ridge to keep them from passing all the way though the outer pins.
The inner driver is not able to be removed without damaging the pin as far as I can see. It is spring loaded and sits flush with the top of the outer driver at rest. The outer driver is heavily serrated.
An attempt to show the travel of the inner driver, a tripod would have been handy at this point.
A shot of the key showing the dimples for the inner and outer pins.
As of yet I've been unable to pick this lock. For a knockoff brand the tolerances are pretty tight, the minimal counter-rotation from the deep serrations is often enough to drop a set pin or two. I plan on putting this lock back together with a couple less pins in it for some practice though. So far a short hook seems to be the easiest to use setting the outer pins. I've yet to get them all set but it looks like the inner pins should be able to be set with a half diamond. The width of the keyway and placement of the warding make tensioning the lock a little tricky, I have to use my widest wrench just to get a little bite on the plug.
Apologies for the quality of pictures, I'm having a bit of a lighting problem in this room. I've been using this as a temporary solution:
Feel free to laugh, it's an LED flashlight with a single layer of a napkin over it to diffuse the light a little. I know...
Anyways, I hope somebody gets some use out of this post. I haven't seen much mention of these locks at all, only the Medeco knockoffs. It's kind of a fun lock, but I don't have any experience with dimple locks outside of this one so your mileage may vary. At least it was cheap.
I've been playing with this lock for awhile now and as I've not seen much info on it I thought I'd throw up some pictures of what's inside. I'm not very familiar (at all) with MTL, but from what I've read this is pretty much the cheap version of one. It's a 5 (10?) pin dimple lock with telescoping pin stacks and serrated drivers.
Now for the good bits.
The inner keypins have a ridge to keep them from passing all the way though the outer pins.
The inner driver is not able to be removed without damaging the pin as far as I can see. It is spring loaded and sits flush with the top of the outer driver at rest. The outer driver is heavily serrated.
An attempt to show the travel of the inner driver, a tripod would have been handy at this point.
A shot of the key showing the dimples for the inner and outer pins.
As of yet I've been unable to pick this lock. For a knockoff brand the tolerances are pretty tight, the minimal counter-rotation from the deep serrations is often enough to drop a set pin or two. I plan on putting this lock back together with a couple less pins in it for some practice though. So far a short hook seems to be the easiest to use setting the outer pins. I've yet to get them all set but it looks like the inner pins should be able to be set with a half diamond. The width of the keyway and placement of the warding make tensioning the lock a little tricky, I have to use my widest wrench just to get a little bite on the plug.
Apologies for the quality of pictures, I'm having a bit of a lighting problem in this room. I've been using this as a temporary solution:
Feel free to laugh, it's an LED flashlight with a single layer of a napkin over it to diffuse the light a little. I know...
Anyways, I hope somebody gets some use out of this post. I haven't seen much mention of these locks at all, only the Medeco knockoffs. It's kind of a fun lock, but I don't have any experience with dimple locks outside of this one so your mileage may vary. At least it was cheap.
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