[TheForge] Viking Padlock

Sat Mar 8 19:12:00 2003

  Bill,

  I'm not sure the people that wrote the description really understood every 
thing that the padlock showed. The rust build up on the inside of the lock 
indicated there is three springs when they actually were inside wards with 
rust build up to appear like springs. I will talk to you at the Furnacetown 
meeting and draw the operating works of the lock so you can reproduce it.

  Bob M.

>From: "April and Bill Clemens" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: [TheForge] Viking Padlock
>Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 21:35:40 -0500
>
>I'm planning to make one of the padlocks in the Mastermyr Find.  I've
>been looking at the information in the Mastermyr Book on the padlocks.
>Have looked at some other information on locks and talked to several
>people. Still have some questions/decisions to make before I start.
>Hoping someone out there can give me some advice.
>
>1. Lock Spring(s) - I understand the basic concept of the shackle end
>that extends into the body of the lock has a spring(s) attached to its
>end that compress to slide through the top of the lock and then open to
>capture the shackle inside the lock body. A key inserted from an opening
>in the bottom of the lock has a hole in it that slides up over the
>spring(s) compressing it so the shackle can slide through the top of the
>lock. Also one or more wards are attached to the top of the lock body
>extending into the lock and require a key to have additional holes to
>accommodate them. The text says the padlock has 3 springs and the
>picture seems to show two parts to the shackle extending into the lock
>body. The question is why/how are there 3 springs attached to the
>shackle? Most examples I can find only show the shackle with a "v"
>shaped spring forge welded to it's end.
>
>2.  Text says the lock body is made of plate held together with brass
>solder.  Would all six pieces of the lock body(top, bottom, 4 sides) be
>separate pieces or would some have been cut and folded from a single
>piece with only some edges being brass soldered?
>
>3.  Would the cylinder socket to receive the shackle on the side of the
>lock be a separate piece brass soldered on or be formed by bending the
>middle of that side into a cylinder shape?
>
>Bill Clemens
>Hound and Hare Forge
>New Columbia, Pa
>
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