I have a couple of old locks for which I have forgotten the
combinations. Luckily I have a drawing of the plates inside the
locks. They were odd old locks. They had 5 numbers instead of the
standard 3. I labeled them lock “44” and lock
“93”. These locks had a mechanism inside with a lever
that rested on the top of five plates. Each of these plates had a
notch at a specific spot, and a pin that extended through the plate
sticking out on both the front and back of the plates. As with
other locks, to open these, the combination was entered by spinning
the number disk in alternating directions. When I got the plates
lined up with the notches in all 5 at the top, the lever would
drop, and the lock could open. The front plate was attached to the
disk with numbers from 0 to 9 evenly spaced clockwise around the
disk. The pin on the front plate lined up with the number 0 on the
disk. The first number in the combination was for a clockwise spin
of the disk.
If I can figure out the combination to lock 44 : __ __ __ __
__
And the combination to lock 93 : __ __ __ __ __
I think I’ll be able to retrieve whatever it was that I
stashed away.
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