[TheForge] Bike lock steel?

Mon Jul 7 19:01:01 2003

So if you see some character with an anvil and sledge hammer,dipping your
bike into a 1000 gallon dewars flask you should assume he/she is up to no
good!
Chuck
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From: "Demon Buddha" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Bike lock steel?


> Damn I cannot recall the alloy.  Fairly common, though, as I recall.
>
> Some guys in the ME dept. at UC Davis did testing on the Kryptonite
> locks because of the claim that they were "unbreakable".  The easiest
> way to break them without heat turned out to be a soaking in liquid
> nitrogen, emplacement upon an anvil (of all things) and whacking the
> piss out of it with a sledge hammer.  Large bolt cutters didn't fare
> so well as the jaws got seriously notched up.
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:23:48 -0400, Barking Crow <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I have the u part of one of those black U-shaped bicycle locks that are
> > so
> > popular for locking your bicycle to a parking meter or tree and I wonder
> > if
> > anyone knows or would hazzard a guess as to what its made of and if it
> > has
> > any use to a junkyard smith.
> >
> > Whatada ya think?
> >
> > Jeff Valentine
> >
> >
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