WB SFIC Padlock

[twenglish 1]

I just received my WB lock I purchased on eBay, it caught my interest because it has an interchangeable core and no keys, so I wanted to challenge myself to get it picked to control and have a key made, so far after a few attempts I haven't been able to pick it to control or operating, the core is giving next to no feedback just like my best core, I am not sure if this contains a best core or not, it has 7 pins, pictures posted below

[jeffmoss26]

So that's who outbid me!

[twenglish 1]

I couldn't have won by much, haha

[GWiens2001]

Get him, Jeff!!!

Gordon

puts twenty bucks on Jeff in the second round

[jeffmoss26]

I can buy those padlocks any day of the week

[mdc5150]

Small format cores have a lot of variety to them. What there has not been a lot of variety on is the springs to use in the cores. I pulled this core and was rekeying it and thought I would snap a picture of what it looks like with copper springs after a little use. This is often why there isn't much feedback. Where I work we have switched to steel springs.

I will actually reuse steel springs if I know how long they have been in use. I won't reuse a copper spring as long as it was capped.

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[GWiens2001]

Since the spring usually gets crushed when punching out the pins in an SFIC, I always replace them.

Gordon

[Papa Gleb]

Hahah Great find Twin. As I was reading your post I was asking myself now how did Jeff miss this on ebay and next thought was watch as I scroll down Jeff will be asking if you want to trade lol. I was close I think hahah.

Wow now that is an interesting sight. I never paid much attention to the springs but then again I only seen IC core apart in pictures. Thanks for the info gents.

[jeffmoss26]

MDC, that is interesting. I use the LAB Long IC springs which are copper, but I did see they now have stainless steel springs listed on their website.

[twenglish 1]

My best core had a problem with one of the copper springs, it became pinched between one of the spool drivers and hole and bound up the stack, I fixed it by taking it all apart, without using one of the ic core tools, I did it the conventional way, never again haha

[mdc5150]

MDC, that is interesting. I use the LAB Long IC springs which are copper, but I did see they now have stainless steel springs listed on their website.

Jeff we have nearly 100 fuel centers we take care of. Once we switched to the "stainless" springs we noticed there are a lot fewer service calls at the fuel centers for cores not working correctly.

[GWiens2001]

That is really good to know, MDC. Thanks for the advice.

Gordon

[jeffmoss26]

I will have to see if I can get some!

[twenglish 1]

So far this lock is kicking my ass, its really frustrating haha

[GWiens2001]

Your poor donkey.

Gordon