my new sargent and greenleaf vault lock

femurat · 2014-02-17T15:43:40+00:00

I don’t know how many of you have been so lucky to get one of these big vault locks. Thanks to a nice member here I got some nice stuff. I’m going to restore it and put on a wooden stand… Here are a few pictures of the lock body Here are some pictures I took while reassembling the lock. I know I’d better clean it, but this was just to show the internals. Here is the back Since nobody did that already I took some pictures with a standard 6700 for size comparison With this lock I got its brass spline and a special dial ring, that has a different shaped brass spline. All I had to do was to file down its brass spline to fit the dial and gear of that different dial ring. I had to file down a little the pentagonal part because it was too big to fit into the dial hole. Then I had to taper it. Then I had to file a square to fit the gear. It was not difficult but I took my time since I only had a flat file and a vice, and couldn’t screw up. As you can see, I did it! I’m pretty proud of myself :8): So let’s see how it should look once complete with this very big and very cool chromed dial plate The ring is a bit ruined, just where the index should be. I’ll find a way to restore that. I think I can file it down a little to remove the corroded part and then cut the index again. Hints are welcome. Now I need to find out more about the lock that prevents the gear, hence the dial, to rotate. Since it came without a key, I need to make one. It’s a lever lock I lifted the levers manually and slide the bolt halfway to show the correct bittings the key should have I’ll use the curtain as a reference to measure each lever height. Then I’ll translate them to a flat piece of steel, leaving it just a hair higher so I can finish impressioning it. Enough for today. Cheers 🙂

Tom Gordon

The finest stands that I have ever seen are made by Brian Morland -who runs this site.
Dont be shy Brian -can we see a few examples of your wooden display stands here?

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