Thanks for the video. I wonder if the spring mounting of the whole mechanism might also make a drill attack more difficult ; if the steel block can squirm away from the drill? (I wouldn’t have thought there’d normally be much vibration (but maybe so in an old steelworks) 🙂
Back in the latter 1800's, not only had nitro been used in safe cracking but dynamite would be applied to the door face in the hopes of breaking the timelock escapement causing the timelock to immediately wind down. Springing the movements was one way of trying to prevent a timelock failure.
interesting indeed
Thanks for the video. I wonder if the spring mounting of the whole mechanism might also make a drill attack more difficult ; if the steel block can squirm away from the drill? (I wouldn’t have thought there’d normally be much vibration (but maybe so in an old steelworks) 🙂
Back in the latter 1800's, not only had nitro been used in safe cracking but dynamite would be applied to the door face in the hopes of breaking the timelock escapement causing the timelock to immediately wind down. Springing the movements was one way of trying to prevent a timelock failure.