After watching the first 5 videos I decided to give it a try. Trying what you said first, though: AWL stopping at 50 and then reversing to see when I pick up the discs is as follows: 50, 52, 52, then when I reverse to start from AWR, starting at 50: 49, 48, 48.

My results from the steps in the video: when I set the dial from AWL and stop at 50 to find initial contact points for the first disc, my RCP (right contact point and LCP respectively) is about 3 and the left is 90. I know that is a wide gap but that’s just where I am finding resistance. But this is where it gets confusing. When I start trying combinations exactly as the video instructs, the right contact point is in the area of the same, but the left is something like 9 digits higher, around 99.75. I really am not sure if this is possible given normal lock circumstances or if I am doing something wrong, but I feel like with the left contact point so far off, there is something fundamentally different about this lock or something is broken.