Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
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I am based in the UK and a client has specified that all valve handwheels on a project are to have breakable padlocks with a common key. The environment is high humidity, saliferous.
Unfortunately I have tried many suppliers in the UK but they are not familiar with breakable padlocks.
Could anyone point me to a supplier who could help me.
Thanks
Paul Hearn
Unfortunately I have tried many suppliers in the UK but they are not familiar with breakable padlocks.
Could anyone point me to a supplier who could help me.
Thanks
Paul Hearn





RE: Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
Playing devil's advocate, you could almost certainly argue that from a contractual perspective any padlock is breakable and technically meets the spec. It's just the method of breaking it which is open to question: hammer, crowbar, mell, angle grinder, shaped charge...
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RE: Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
I can understand for lock-out-tag-out (LOTO) purposes requiring valves that can be "locked." I'm accustomed to using lengths of chain fed through handwheels and around the pipe the valve is installed in then secured by a padlock. There are all sorts of strategies that can be applied to the padlocks as far a there being a master key or individual keys but at the end of the day there's nothing unique about the valve other than the handwheel's ability to take a chain. I've drilled holes in handles on small, quarter turn valves to run small diamerer cable through for similar locking-out purposes.
I agree, go back to your client for clarification. Even asking you, as an engineer, to provide chain, cable, or padlocks would be a bit of a stretch.
Let us know how it turns out.
RE: Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
This site has all types of tag and lockout components.
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RE: Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
RE: Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
Thanks, that's what I was after, I will offer it to our client and hopefully he will accept.
Here in the UK we tend to use car seals, that's why we are not familiar with the term breakable padlocks.
Many Thanks
Paul Hearn
RE: Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
I'll try to get someone to see if there is a name on one of the locks.
I've also seen that lock at a much lower price.
RE: Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
RE: Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
Did you manage to get the name of the supplier for the brass breakable padlocks?
Regards
Paul Hearn
RE: Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
The boys didn't call me back and it slipped my mind. I'll give them a call today but doubt that I'll get an answer as it's 27F with a stiff wind.
RE: Sourcing Breakable / Crackable padlocks
The old locks look like the disk lock in the picture except it was Brass.
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This is the Master Lock
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This is another breakable Brass lock. It looks like it has a Ni plated shackle
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These are all Brass and SS locks you might contact them to see if they make a breakable shackle
http://www.padlocks.com/