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That old lock at the antique mall in Denton showed me something
I was digging through a booth at the antique mall off Elm Street last Saturday and found a 1920s padlock that still had its original key. The thing opened smooth as butter after almost 100 years, no oil or anything. Makes me wonder how much of our modern security stuff is actually better than what people used back then.
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wade2501mo ago
Respectfully, old stuff was built to last while modern stuff is built to sell you another one next year.
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michael_green441mo ago
More like they figured out how to make things cheap enough you just buy new ones.
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valc911mo ago
That 1920s padlock opening smooth after almost a century is wild. I mean, a hundred years of dust and temperature swings and it still clicks right open without any fuss. We really did lose something when we switched over to all this plastic and cheap metal. You just know if you dropped that antique lock off a roof it would still work, but a modern Master Lock would probably crack in half. Kind of makes you wonder what other everyday stuff from back then was secretly way tougher than what we have now.
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