Today I received the tubular locks in the mail! YAY...
But um...the concept of retrofitting the padlock and shackleguard with these tubular locks is easy!
You just cut off the post to right height including washer that has a crescent shaped cut out in it to receive the crescent lip on the lock base to keep it from spinning, drill, countersink in washer under lock edge (to prevent drilling it out while locked), tap the hole in the post 6-32NC thread, rivet washer to front shield centered over the hole for the post...
yeah...I do not believe the "average" woman with standard home tools is going to be able to do this. Not going to lie to you. I had to buy a special vise, I broke 3 taps trying to tap that stainless steel post...
It's a bitch. I had to get help on the tapping part and it took some real artisinal work to cut the crescent hole.
Yes, tubular locks can be bought HERE:
http://www.padlocks4less.com/computer-c ... -html.html for $5.18 +S&H. Cost of stainless steel stock washer= .35c, all the damned taps and tools and grinding wheels you have to buy and all the trips back and forth to get something else...priceless aggravation! (I spent upwards of $65 on tools and sundry stuffs just to install two five buck locks! pthbbt!)
So anyways, these tiny lil tubular locks sit 5/8 of an inch high and they are about that big in diameter. About 1/5th the size of a Tollyboy tubular lock!!!
Tobbe...what is the hole diameter and size thread in the backside of a Tollyboy lock??? and how many thread turndown on the tube?
This one has 4 thread turndown on a #6-32 NC shaft. That is SMALL! Side shear would not take much concussive force to blast this lock. HOWEVER, adding a protective collar and that crescent relief hold makes getting a good blow problematic. For the average woman...yeah, she's stuck without the key. Basically, without hand tools, this retrofit makes picking it pretty damned HARD! It has 7 pins. I cannot pick this lock because its a tubular and you need special tubular lockpicks which I am fresh out of.
Here's some imagery for you to drool over, ladies. (poor girl's Tollyboy set up here!):::

- Tubular lock on secondary shield

- "Baby Tollyboy lock" on waistband

- Fully done with modifying this solid rear strap now. READY TO PUT INTO SERVICE!!!

- Bottom up view. (Secondary shield plasti-dipped and metallic copper suspension paint coated to match the glitz of the rivets)

- Oblique view