🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Girlfriend's mom: Oh, Alice, while you're here, I have this lockbox that I don't have a key for.
Me: Grab it!
Girlfriend's mom: It's not really urg—
Me: —It's open.
Girlfriend's mom: Wow.
Girlfriend's mom: ...darn, it's not full of cash.
jgeorge@alice i bought a payphone from an antiques expo today, and i know my way around one and picking this one up it was heavier than it should have been. I turned it upside down (after purchase, away from the seller) and heard a fair number of coins sloshing around in it. :)
This was almost a lockpicking reply but I do not have the chops (nor do I know anyone who does) who can pick the lock. the pins ROTATE to set. It’ll get drilled out and replaced, sadly. :(
@jgeorge if you're near Seattle, I'll open it for you.
@alice Bless your lockpicking heart! I’m about as far away from Seattle as you can get and still be in the continental US (GA) so I can’t take you up on the offer, but thank you. :)
I thought it might have been an aftermarket lock but it looks like the original Western Electric lock. Thankfully the phone body locks were “regional” so all phones in an area used the same upper lock key. I know where mine came from, and found a place to cut replacement keys, so we’ll see if that works without drilling it out.
It’s not a modern lock so it’s one of the older kinds that are pickable with some skills, if I guessed at the wrong key I may spend some time trying to pick it before I resort to drilling.