how to get combination to my old lock?

Question

i was going through my old drawer and found 3 old lock use for my school locker. i was wondering how can i get the number to it. all three are made by Dudley. video from youtube doesnt help. theres a code at the bottom.

Answer 1

Here are their addresses and etc:

http://dudleylocks.com/03-_reach.html

Answer 2

If all else fails, you'd have to try each combination until you arrive at the one that works. On the surface, this seems like a
daunting task; however, it really is not as bad as it seems.
Since there are only digits 0 - 9 this is ten numbers. Since there are three humbers to be entered, per lock this means you have 10^3 combinations total, or 1000 combinations. Seems like an awful lot to try; however, once again it is not as bad as it appears. We know there are certain numbers we can eliminate before we ever begin entering numbers.
Combinations such as, "000" "111" "222" can be eliminated as highly unlikely. There are ten of these gone.
Forward sequences and reverse sequences can be eliminated also. "123" "345" & "543" "210", ten each so that is 20 more combinations removed.
It is also unlikely they would use the same number in two positions that are next to each other. So for example if the numbers we seek are labeled "A" "B" and "C" it is unlikely to see a combination like " 114" "449" or "355" "088" so there are ten each of these type of combinations for another 20 combinations removed.
I think we can safely remove certain patterns also. Such as, "A, B, and C" being all even numbers or all odd numbers.
[ even] = 2,4,6 ...4,6,8 ..so we remover two more for each ...even and odd ..total four more removed.
Next we look to other common patters such as, multiples of 3 ... "369'
We remove also our reverse patterns just described.
I think we could remove some dates such as Lincoln's Birthday February 12, combination "212" In fact, we may also feel comfortable removing the ten numbers where the first and third digit are the same too. We could remove Cinco De Mayo(sp) which is March 5th ...combination "305"
I think, of the 1000 combinations to start with we should be able to remove at least 100 combinations as unlikely, some are highly unlikely.
Of the 900 remaining, if we only did 10 combinations a day it would take about three months if ..and only if the combinations we seek is the last one we try. This event is the most unlikely though, it is more likely the combination we seek falls somewhere between the first one we will try and the last one we will try. So it may only take 4 days, or it could be a month.
To chart our combinations we should create a spread sheet for each of the ten numbers, One sheet per number.
The number would be the title of the sheet and this would be our digit 'A'
Digit 'B' would run down and digit 'C' across the top of the sheet.
For each digit 'B' there are ten digit 'C's
Now we can fill in our combinations and just mark off what we have tried, and using a different mark to mark off those removed.

My first sheet may begin to look like this, for example :

Sheet ' 0 '
//! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
0!
1!
2!
3!
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As you can see to enter the combinations is easy now, the sheet name is digit 'A' the numbers running down the left are digit 'B' and the numbers along to top are digit 'C'
so our first row across will begin with combinations "001, 002, 003, 004, 005...000"
next row..011,012,013...010...
Remember though, one sheet per number For digit 'A' which means 100 combinations per sheet.
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Answer 3

Go to a reputable lock shop and have them re-set the 3 locks for you . It's not worth the hassle you're going to go thru to get the combos to those locks ( how would Dudley know that you aren't trying to break into someone else's stuff ?) .

Answer 4

turn the locks over to the Back, draw an X from the shanks
to the bottom of the base, at the V in the top of the X , drill a 1/4 inch hole, just thru the caseing, useing a flash light, look inside to locate a U shaped notch, slowly turn the dial to the right [faceing the dial] till the U notch is at the top, then turn to left , line second U notch up with first one, then to the right again till 3 rd notch lines up with rest of notches, [notice the # each time you line up a notch, thats how you get the combnation,

Answer 5

rhamm618 has a good concept there........but isnt it a lot easier to just spend the 3 bucks on a new lock ?