[TheForge] Bike lock steel?

Mon Jul 7 19:06:01 2003

I'd say that would be a pretty safe bet.

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:56:08 -0500, Chuck Robinson <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> 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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>> 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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