If you like puzzles...

[wossname]

...and don't mind burning to death in your own hallway...

http://inventorspot.com/articles/rus...or_chain_26262

[Atheist]

It does take time to open a door with this type of lock on it, but according to many, it is quality time.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It is fastened with ten screws as well as two extra screws for good (and extra good) measure.

How do they know the others are extra? I'll bet it is supposed to have twelve screws, and if you left those two out, the whole thing would just fall right off.

[mendhak]

Presumably, this would go on the inside of a door, making it difficult for you to leave the house rather than get in.

[wossname]

That's essentially the point I was making, yes. You seemed to have grasped it.

[mendhak]

I usually ignore all text in posts by you and click the links instead. You could use this fact to rickroll me.

[wossname]

Funny that, I usually ignore all your photos on flickr and simply skip ahead to the inane comments of adulation from plebs that cannot spell the word lens properly.

[Lord Orwell]

i found it interesting they said "withstand 700 lbs of pressure, equal to two and a half fat burglers". This is only correct if it's suspending them off the ground. A good running start by a skinny guy will exert that much pressure, or even a kick will open it.

I would say that you would have to add that to the force necessary to break the normal latch, but you don't. The latch will break before you ever tension the chain.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Clearly you people have way too much time on your hands to spend strategising a break-in. Get a bank vault door for your house.

[Lord Orwell]

Clearly you people have way too much time on your hands to spend strategising a break-in. Get a bank vault door for your house.

nothing is more secure than the burgler bar.

it wedges under the doorknob and has a rubber pad on the bottom.

[wossname]

Those don't work if you push the door really gently, the rubber just slides. (They've got them at the hardware shop, I haven't been burgling).

It would be funny though if the door was really flimsy and the burglar shoulder barged the door only to have the rod poke through the door and impale the hapless mescreant.

[NotLKH]

You can also slide a yard-stick below the door and push the bar until it drops.

[mendhak]

Those also don't work if you leave the house, which is when someone would most likely want to break in.

[crptcblade]

You can also set the door on fire.

[Lord Orwell]

Those also don't work if you leave the house, which is when someone would most likely want to break in.

oh but the point is comparing it to a slide-chain. You can't very well set that when you leave either. And there is a 2nd model of rod that has a little hole in the floor the bottom fits in, instead of a rubber base. There was a really old movie called "the burglar" starring whoppi goldberg. She used this coupled with a steel door. When the cops tried to kick her door in, the guy broke his foot. they ended up using a blow torch and by the time they got in, she had sequestered herself in a hidden compartment in the back of her closet.

[demotivater]

Your invention sucks.

Yours in words -

Not impressed

American Naysayer

[Lord Orwell]

really, look at that thing anyway. If you locked it, i really don't think the chain will end up in the bottom corner. Most likely the casual user will simply drop it in the first slot.

[BillGeek]

You can also set the door on fire.

You certainly do have a point there.

Thanks for your thoughts.



Yours in Words,

M Dee Dubroff

Russian Innovations