How to open a Master combination lock.
Why doesn't Master just assign random numbers for the 3 digits?
My guess: They've got a rather simple lock mechanism that results in these patterns.
As an aside, I've always found Masterlock combinations easier to remember than any old random set of three numbers. In highschool we were issued Masterlocks, and I managed to collect a couple dozen combinations, mostly by learning the combinations of a couple of guys who figured out other people's combos and then wrote them down inside the door of their own lockers.
It's pretty easy to do in the between classes chaos. Just unobtrusively spy one number per day, and in three days you've got a combo. Anyway, from looking at all these combos, it always seemed to me there was some underlying pattern. Now I know why.
internals
Holy shite. Open any lock with a bump key.
I look forward to the lock company PR blog entry on how they spun this.
Another, rather more direct, way to open a Master Lock.
wooden combination lock
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- jim 8-02-2006 11:41 pm
Why doesn't Master just assign random numbers for the 3 digits?
- tom moody 8-02-2006 11:58 pm [add a comment]
My guess: They've got a rather simple lock mechanism that results in these patterns.
As an aside, I've always found Masterlock combinations easier to remember than any old random set of three numbers. In highschool we were issued Masterlocks, and I managed to collect a couple dozen combinations, mostly by learning the combinations of a couple of guys who figured out other people's combos and then wrote them down inside the door of their own lockers.
It's pretty easy to do in the between classes chaos. Just unobtrusively spy one number per day, and in three days you've got a combo. Anyway, from looking at all these combos, it always seemed to me there was some underlying pattern. Now I know why.
- mark 8-03-2006 1:08 am [add a comment]
internals
- mark 8-03-2006 11:59 am [add a comment]
Holy shite. Open any lock with a bump key.
- jim 8-06-2006 7:57 pm [add a comment]
I look forward to the lock company PR blog entry on how they spun this.
- tom moody 8-06-2006 8:09 pm [add a comment]
Another, rather more direct, way to open a Master Lock.
- jim 9-20-2006 9:16 am [add a comment]
wooden combination lock
- mark 1-05-2010 5:35 pm [add a comment]