ABUS 180IB/50 All Weather Solid Brass 4-Dial Resettable Combination Padlock with 2" Stainless Steel Shackle

Awesome lock. Great build quality. Much tighter tolerances compared to master locks.

Super expensive. As a product it is not bad, but I can buy it locally from a locksmith at a fraction of this.

Das Schloss ist sehr wertig und verrichtet draußen brav seinen Dienst. Ich habe es jetzt gut über 1 Jahr im Gebrauch und es schließt und öffnet sich immer noch ruckelfrei. Die Zshlen sind allerdings mittlerweile nicht mehr schwarz (Farbe ab), was das Ablesen im Dunkeln etwas schwierig macht. Ich würde es wieder kaufen.

Use several of these in our youth baseball league, all in outdoor environments not at all protected from the rain. Never had a problem with these. A bit pricier than others but it's the only one so far that's been reliable. Master makes a big, fancy looking lock that's supposed to be for outdoor use. We tried a 6-pack of those and every one failed. The dials just freeze up on them, you need to bang on the with something or sometimes just cut the lock off entirely. Go with these if you want an outdoor lock.

Some features that might be considered annoying: When rotating the dial to the correct combination, the lock does not open if you then pull on its shackle (like most locks do) nor does it open itself. The shackle remains closed. You must push the shackle in and it then springs open. This can be confusing to someone who you may give the combination to but is not familiar with requiring the shackle to be pushed in. That person may believe they have entered the correct combination but can’t get it to open. To close the lock shackle and relock it, the combination must first be changed from its value used to open it, otherwise the shackle just springs back open. This is probable a good thing as you could not accidentally reclose it and have it actually be unlocked if you were able to reclose it and forgot to spin the numbers to relock it. The combination dial digits cannot be rotated beyond 0 to get directly to 9. You must rotate 0,1,2…9. Thus if a digit in your combination is say 2, when changing the digit to close the lock, you cannot spin the dial down from 2 if you wish to leave the digit at say 8. This is probable a feature meant for being able to unlock when you have a hard time seeing the digits. You could spin them until they cannot spin anymore, meaning they are then at 0. Then you simply move them one digit at a time, counting how many clicks you move until you get to that digit’s value. It requires a special key to be inserted into its side in order to change its combination. I can imagine that key getting misplaced after a while should you wish to change the combination in the future. It has a stainless steel shackle with brass body, so seems good for outdoor use. The Master Lock 1175LHSS also has a stainless steel shackle, does not require a separate key to change its combination and I believe will open by pulling on it after the combination has been entered. But it might be able to be reclosed with its combination still set to its open position, requiring its digits to be remembered to be spun.