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Lock it Socket
Nut and bolt lock.
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Those who use public lockers known the inconvenience of carrying around a heavy steel combination lock in order to secure their property.

The Lock It Socket is a simple locking device that resembles a bolt and rounded nut, which can only be turned using your unique wrench.


rcarty, Nov 05 2007


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       How many unique wrenches will there be? One could increase the possible number by making the wrench as a flat blade, with a finite number of varying faces to engage the nut.

bungston, Nov 05 2007
  

       Apart from the device bungston describes - if only we had a short, convenient name for it! - something very similar is widely used in the form of weird screw heads for which tools are difficult to find (and/or useless) outside a specific profession.

jutta, Nov 05 2007
  

       Maybe lockers should just be fitted with card swipes, since we all carry cards with magnetic strips these days.

DrCurry, Nov 05 2007
  

       If you google 'security nut' or 'security screw' or 'security bolt' you will find a vast array of readily availabe products.

the dog's breakfast, Nov 06 2007
  

       Errrrrrm, why is your lock in your pocket (I think Iggy did a song about this) instead of locking the locker?

Murdoch, Nov 06 2007
  

       The advantage is that the bolt and nut are smaller than the combination lock. But then you have to carry around a wrench (and maybe two of them). Where do you put those wrenches? In your speedo?

ldischler, Nov 06 2007
  

       One pool that I went to provided keys for lockers that fastened to one's speedo with a safety pin.   

       [Murdoch] some facilities don't allow for locks to be left on overnight, so the lock has to be carried around.

rcarty, Nov 06 2007
  

       ldischler, wrench might be used as a verb in this instance. Perhaps a handshake of some kind?   

       There are many compounds that will envelop the shape of the unique nut, and electronically, chemically or physically (custard for example) harden enough to open the system.   

       Duly sanctioned user authentication is a large problem in security systems as a whole, not specifically travel bag security. If you come up with the answer, you will take over the world, this is not it, however.   

       The solution as stated above is similar to Public Key infrastructure, except that it lacks the necessary private key portion.

4whom, Nov 07 2007
  

       //if only we had a short, convenient name for it!//   

       A key?

Noexit, Nov 07 2007
  

       I think bungston and jutta's subtle irony has bypassed Noexit.

Murdoch, Nov 07 2007
  

       Ways to break into [rcarty]'s locker : Stilson's wrench, vice grips, good pliers, Metrinch spanner (maybe), chain wrench, etc etc etc.

Custardguts, Nov 07 2007
  


 
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