When I was getting married, I considered a Tungsten ring, then the ring 
designer told us that the only draw back of Tungsten is that it's very hard 
to cut, so if you break your finger somehow, it would be extremely 
difficult to get the ring off. I went with recycled gold instead.

How about using tungsten as the U-lock material?



Franklyn

On Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:07:04 AM UTC-7, Andrew Marchant-Shapiro 
wrote:
>
> Granted, an angle grinder is going to win.  But.  I don't park on NY, 
> Chicago, or LA city streets.  I do park at a public rack on the New Haven 
> campus where I teach a course.  I have an Abus mini-U lock that I use 
> frame-to-rack, backed with a heavy cable laced through both wheels and 
> secured with the same lock.  Can I reasonably do more than that?
>
> On Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:00:15 PM UTC-4, Jim M. wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, September 11, 2014 7:46:54 AM UTC-7, Andrew Marchant-Shapiro 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Which raises an interesting question, since many of us use 
>>> U-locks-and-cable approaches.  Are there ways of locking up with a U-lock 
>>> (preferrably a smallish one) that defeat most methods of defeating the 
>>> things?
>>>
>>> Simple answer: No. 
>>
>> An angle grinder will cut through any u-lock pretty quickly. You can see 
>> videos on youtube of how fast it is. I've seen a titanium lock -- Tigr IIRC 
>> -- that will delay an angle grinder longer, but still isn't uncuttable. It 
>> sounds like the recovered Sam had it's lock picked or else not latched 
>> completely.
>>
>>
>> jim m
>> wc ca
>>
>

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