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From: [email protected] (Charles Sundheim)
Subject: Re: Krypto cables (was Re: Cobra Locks)
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To follow-up, I had a bad experience w/ a Krypto Lock too...
Last year I bought a Krypto Cable II (3/8"x3-4' long, something like that)
that by all standards seemed like a decent piece. Until I used it anyway...
Before I ever used it for security purposes, I used it for entertainment
(minds out of the gutter, please), which is to say that I sat fiddling w/
it while watching TV (the night I got it). After three minutes of mindless
fiddling (of course it was mindless, remember I was watching TV) the entire
tumbler mechanism came out on the key! Not unlike that old Georgie-porgie
nursery rhyme. This left a very empty cylinder and a very non-secure
(read "swingin' in the breeze") cable lock.
Kinda makes me wonder about any flat key-style lock. One yank w/ a
slide-hammer and Viola-- I'm making an insurance claim.
Anyone else have a similar experience (w/ the Kryptos, not bike theft)?
-Erc.