High carbon steel dies not bend. It ultimately snaps.
If bolt cutters dont work and you need a grinder, it's high carbon steel.
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This is how someone with a degree......
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Maybe, but I doubt that hasp ring is high carbon steel.
But it looks like it was cut with bolt cutters so ...
Cheers, T i m
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Anyway, i'm back with some new material, and it's much better...
This is from the other day.....
How someone degree educated locks a gate (same person, same gate!)...
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I'm here all week.
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Well, cannot see these but sadly having the best IQ in the world does not mean you can work practical stuff out. I used to help graduates who came to our company apply their knowledge in the real world. I feel this often where education fails, its just too academic and this goes for Nursing as well. Brian
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Brilliant!
Tim
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Brian, it?s a pretty normal gate/shed bolt which has a shackle loop that can be flipped upwards or downwards over a plate with a hole in it for a padlock. The bolt can only be pulled back when the shackle on the bolt is horizontal, not when it is up it down
The hole for the padlock to pass through has been sawn through in the lower locking position so it would be easy to twist off the padlock.
This time though, the user has used the undamaged top hole and affixed a padlock to it. Just a shame he forgot to rotate the bolt shackle towards the top first and actually secure the bolt.
Tim
Brian Gaff \(Sofa 2\) snipped-for-privacy@bluey> Well, cannot see these but sadly having the best IQ in the world does not
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Perhaps someone (NN,NPD!) should just open the gate and leave it ajar, to emphasise the point?
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Probably case hardened.
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Only true if heat treated. (Hardened as in chisels etc)
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R D S snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote in news:r33h2h$2js$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
I have something similar on one of my gates - it looks locked as the padlock hangs down. But it isn't locked - but if I want to lock it I will not have mislaid the lock.
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That?s the point the guy might be going through the gate several times and may not want to have to use the key each time, putting the padlock on like that means it does not get misplaced until he finally needs to lock it. Used to do that myself with hasps and staples on sheds and garages if I knew I was going to use the door frequently but did not want to leave the door open.
Richard
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She'd :cough: 'locked up' and gone, so We WhatsApp-ed her a video of us opening it.
The missus did the commentary which included the phrase '####ing genius'.
We're all good friends so it's OK and dealt with in good humpur. At least until it's left like that, we don't notice, and the local spice heads clean us out.