> On Apr 7, 2025, at 4:05 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2025, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: >> > > Can you post a picture of what you can see? >> > Can't post photos here, >> Tony and I assembled a page of photos, which can be found here: >> https://yagi.h-net.org/philips_p3800_lock/ >> Opine away! > > although time consuming, and requiring som moderate machining skill, that > looks like it shouldn't be an extreme problem to make a blank. > I assume that Tony has, or has access to, a precision milling machine. > It also looks as though it could even be bent out of flat stock with a > miniature bending brake. > > The rear picture shows that it is not a fully paracentric keyway. (where > "ridges" and "valleys" of the milling of the keyway would cross the center > line, making it impossible to insert a very thin flat piece of metal)
I went looking for pictures of Lips locks, and found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki8ErnwFwe4 which clearly isn't the same model lock but does seem to have the identical keyway. So that would be a logical starting point. paul
