Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!seefromline From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: Theft Resistance of U-shaped bicycl Message-ID: <5900003@convexs> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 16:08:00 EDT Article-I.D.: convexs.5900003 Posted: Thu Jul 11 16:08:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 14:26:44 EDT References: <1468@bbncca.ARPA> Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:bbncca.ARPA:-146800:convexs:5900003:000:589 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers Jul 11 15:08:00 1985 ****************************************************************************** I've heard tales that a Kryptonite can be broken using liquid nitrogen, which is much more believable than dry ice. No proof for this, though. /* End of text********************************************************** */ Yes, it's nitrogen. It's not the lock housing, but the internals that shatter, springing open the lock. We had a rash of these at college -- "unpickable" locks with shattered insides, and it was a chemistry prof who solved the "mystery". blues, II (This is reality, Greg)