[TheForge] Bike lock steel?

Mon Jul 7 19:20:00 2003

HAHA @ Dipping in the dewar of nitrogen, I love my nitrogen spray tank it
goes everywhere..............

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Vida" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Bike lock steel?

> 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
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Demon Buddha" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > 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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