My wife and I got tungsten wedding bands so I researched the issue. While tungsten is very hard to cut, it's very easy to shatter! If you go to the ER with a stuck tungsten ring, they stick it (and your finger) in a clamp and take a hammer to it. Maybe it's possible to make a tungsten lock where the shape doesn't really facilitate shattering (like a thin ring) but I do know it would be HEAVY. I joke that in a pinch, I could use my wedding band as a self-defense projectile.
On Thursday, September 11, 2014 11:37:08 AM UTC-5, franklyn wrote: > > 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 >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
