http://mitchcapper.com A Guide To Making Cutaways Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:22:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="120" caption="Medeco Biaxial"][/caption] | Image Gallery The Medeco Biaxial is the previous generation of Medeco lock, however it is arguably a more secure cylinder than the newer M3. Involving almost as much complexity as the M3, it is frequently a hard lock to explain to others. While there are ... http://mitchcapper.com/general/18-medeco-biaxial-mortise-my-cutaway/ I am sorry for the lack of updates on my blog, after doing the last factory cutaway article I vowed the next one would be a custom cutaway on my new mill.  There were some delays in getting the mill setup properly with DRO controls, and then several conferences that ... http://mitchcapper.com/general/19-updates/  | Image Gallery Update: Some errors were made in this article, please see the end for the corrections.  The Medeco M3 is Medeco's latest commercial cylinder and was released as a replacement for the Medeco Biaxial.  They released both the M3 and the lesser known M3 BiLevel (M3B for short) at the same ... http://mitchcapper.com/cutaways/factory/9-medeco-m3-and-m3-bilevel/ | Image Gallery The Dirty Duo. The Duo lock is somewhat unknown among lock enthusiasts, often looked at as a simple wafer lock. The Duo, however, is not everything it seems, as it features a non-reversible key and generally found in 8 or 14 tumbler versions. The higher end Duos' feature more than the ... http://mitchcapper.com/cutaways/mine/5-duo-14-tumbler-cam/  | Image Gallery  The Abloy Protec lock is one of the most secure cylinder locks in the world.  It is currently the second most secure lock that Abloy offers, only superseded by the Abloy Protec CLIQ, which is the Abloy Protec with an additional electronic chip. I recently acquired a factory ... http://mitchcapper.com/cutaways/factory/4-abloy-protec-mortise/  | Image Gallery I figured I would start with a cheap rekeyable padlock.  This is a MasterLock 572 bought from a Home Depot with a price of about $13.    Aside from the cheap factor of this padlock the key feature was the fact it was rekeyable.   Making cutaways of non-rekeyable padlocks is a whole lot ... http://mitchcapper.com/cutaways/mine/3-master-lock-572-padlock/ Welcome to my blog,  I am a lock collector with an interest specifically in cutaways.   I have always followed several other blogs, but few have much in the way of cutaways and even fewer in how to make cutaways.      I plan to not only document how and the result of the cutaways ... http://mitchcapper.com/general/1-welcome/