@🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) I assume there are additional pages? I would love to read it. The notion of turning patterns of information like the shape of a key into (admittedly fallible) physical security is god damned fascinating!
@me it's a really short patent. One page of James bagging on someone else's design and then saying that flaring the base of the shackle and shortening the posts slightly was a significant improvement.
Which it is, but I think he hyped his improvements a little much, considering it took me like 15 seconds to figure out how to pick it.
@Wyatt_H_Knott it was. Modern disc-detainer locks don't have springs either (at least the ones I've encountered), but they're a lot more complex and tighter packed.
@smolbrain hey, I just found it on the internet. If it didn't want to be posted, maybe it shouldn't have been so sexy. I'm just a nude lock appreciator. If the lock doesn't want to be posted, it can fill out a DMCA request. Besides I didn't break any laws. This lock sent me those photos. We don't live in the same zipcode, so it doesn't count. Whatever, that lock'll open for anyone.
@amenonsen it would've likely been cast in pieces in a factory. The key was probably ground down from a cast blank, and the discs would've been inserted from the bottom with spacers in between, then the bottom was inserted and the shell was crimped over it.
but also yeah that's wild :o is the idea that the key spins a set of disks to clear the notches on the shackle (or w/e it's called)? also how old is this? (I found the answers to my questions :3)
🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Here's the patent for it from 1871.
(I know I already posted about this, but here it all is in one place)
Jonathan Lamothe
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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@me it's a really short patent. One page of James bagging on someone else's design and then saying that flaring the base of the shackle and shortening the posts slightly was a significant improvement.
Which it is, but I think he hyped his improvements a little much, considering it took me like 15 seconds to figure out how to pick it.
🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@me
Wyatt H Knott
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in reply to Wyatt H Knott • • •Eva
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Your posting the poor things nudes?
Did you even ask its permission!?!?!?
Lock abuse like this cant be tolerated!!!
🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)
in reply to Eva • • •@smolbrain hey, I just found it on the internet. If it didn't want to be posted, maybe it shouldn't have been so sexy. I'm just a nude lock appreciator. If the lock doesn't want to be posted, it can fill out a DMCA request. Besides I didn't break any laws. This lock sent me those photos. We don't live in the same zipcode, so it doesn't count. Whatever, that lock'll open for anyone.
Wow, I feel gross just satirizing that stuff...
Eva
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😁😁
Abhijit Menon-Sen
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in reply to Abhijit Menon-Sen • • •🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)
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in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Oh!
my PJs don't have pockets so that would explain the confusion.
Toekneegee
in reply to Fi 🏳️⚧️ • • •The locks wanted in their pants?
@alice
Abhijit Menon-Sen
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in reply to Hanneke • • •just diz
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •ur neat 
but also yeah that's wild :o
is the idea that the key spins a set of disks to clear the notches on the shackle (or w/e it's called)? also how old is this?(I found the answers to my questions :3)