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Finally opened that depository safe yesterday :D After fifteen confusing, inconsistent graphs, I decided to start over using a process that Oldfast developed for locks with shadowing (more than one wheel being contacted while graphing.) The next six graphs not only started better but continually shrunk the contact point area, which is what one would hope! All told I put twenty hours into learning this lock and developing some skills, and the *clink* of the fence dropping into place made it all worth it.
Oldfast's 2013 technique for shadowing
Oldfast's 2017 comment on causes for shadowing and better technique
Now I'm hoping to refurbish the lock and the safe a bit and make this adventure cost-neutral or slightly positive, to keep acquiring combo-less safes as they pop up.. it's really not clear to me if that's sustainable. I would really love to be able to return locks to service though! I do like lockpicking for its own sake, but having a genuinely unusable lock become accessible again, even if the lock is junky, is the part of the hobby I enjoy most.
Do *you* want a depository safe? Send me an email >:))