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Default Cutting padlocks

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:22:28 -0500, micky
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On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:00:09 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote:



A cheap padlock will yeild to a bolt cutter. A good one will just
laugh at it.


Huh? I have a pair of bolt cutters that is about four feet long. I'd like
to see something it can't cut, so long as it can get it half way into its
jaws. Maybe there is some exotic metal, but it has yet to fail to cut
whatever I can get in it.

Steve

But have you used it on a hardened steel shackle by a quality
manufacturer? The only place I see hardened steel that anyone would
need to cut is on locks.

And chains