Tshock's 2 minute or less DIY plug spinner

[quickpicks]

Better yet save 50 cents on steralizing a used one and buy a new one for 50 cents.

[treboR]

did anyone try this and if you did, did it work well.
I made an impovement on the original design by making a tension wrench with a longer end so there is no need for the pliers.

I have now tried this and it works well. I used an allen wrench instead of a tension wrench.

Thank you for the instructions.

[vague]

Yah. It works well.. I've been meaning to tie a short rod/handle to the spring/tension-wrench and then add another handle for the front of the spring.. It'd make it much easier to deal with.

[vague]

I made some handles for the spring to make it more usable...:


Ingredients:

Tension Wrench
Mouse Trap
Delrin Block
2 screws+washers
Wire Thread
Hot Glue
Self adhearing rubber tape


Basically its a block of delrin that a slot was machined out to fit the spring and two tapped holes for screws to hold down a leg of the spring. The arm of the tension wrench is tied to the other arm of the spring by some wire thread. I then added hot glue to the wrapped combination to give it some bulk and then covered it with the rubber tape to make a nice handle.

Nothing too impressive but it does the job in a nice package..

[quickpicks]

Very nice design

[digital_blue]

I somehow missed this thread until tonight. I've gotta say, I spend a lot of time here, and it's not all that often that I see something that gets me really excited, but this did. No sooner did I finish reading this thread I was off to Home Depot to pick up a couple mousetraps.

tshock, this is a freakin' fantastic idea, and it works amazingly well. I fashioned up the little unit below and it has worked with 100% success on the locks I've tested so far. 100%!!! I've never owned a commercially produced plug spinner, but it is my understanding that they don't often give you 100% success rate. With the couple mods I made it is very comfortable to hold and use.

For any interested, I followed somewhat in the fashion of the unit made by vague. I made the tension wrench equivalent out of sweeper bristle, making the short part of the "L" shape a little longer than normal. Then I used my dremel to cut out small grooves in the sides of the short side of the "L". Then I lined up the straight portion of the spring along the short end of the wrench-like thingy and wrapped a very fine guage wire as a whipping to hold them together. After that I wrapped some teflon tape around the works and then added the heat shrink.

The other handle was made simply by drilling a small hole in the end of a piece of dowel and jamming the wire end of the spring into it. It is only friction that holds it in, but since there is no outward pressure on it, it seems to be holding fine.

Anyway, works awesome, and saves me from buying a pro spinner. Great work tshock! Thanks!



db

[Fah_Cue]

hey guys i just thougt ill ask how dose a plug spinner help you whatdose it help with

cheers
Fah_Cue

[digital_blue]

Fah,

A plug spinner is used when you have picked a lock in the wrong direction (in other words, the direction that does not open the lock). When you are in this position, if you try and turn the plug back to the other side the top pins will drop back down and lock the plug back in upright position. When you use a plug spinner it spins the plug very quickly, so quickly that you can spin past the top pins and end up with the plug in the correct position to open the lock.

Hope that clears it up. You can also get more information by searching the forum.

Cheers!

db

[vector40]

Do these mouse trap spinners work when you _ them only 180 degrees, or do you need to "overload" them to make sure you succeed?

[vague]

no need to overcock.... Very good springs

[SFGOON]

Sterilze it? Easy. A single drop of supertropical bleach (a.k.a. Clorox, or any common household bleach.) Will do the job on anything from e-coli to weaponized anthrax to the hiv.

Of course, I sterilize things by LICKING THEM!!!

Wuss.....

[dwkbb]

Great idea! I made one from a trap I had in my basement and it works very well. Sterilize it? Come on. I lick the peanut butter from my fingers when I set mouse traps.

[quickpicks]

You're joking right?

[Chrispy]

Sterilze it? Easy. A single drop of supertropical bleach (a.k.a. Clorox, or any common household bleach.) Will do the job on anything from e-coli to weaponized anthrax to the hiv.

Of course, I sterilize things by LICKING THEM!!!

Wuss.....

Ewwwww.....

[digital_blue]

Yeah, I also found that you do not need to overload it at all. In fact, you'd probably have a tough time doing that without straining. 180 degrees makes this puppy nice and tight, and you let it go. It has seriously not failed even once on me yet. Not once! This thing is awesome!!!

db