Tubular plug spinner?

[Moosekace]

I saw it thrown out in another thread that I cant find. Has anybody tried to make one? ive been trying to adapt a tubular key with all 9 cuts and the front nub ground off to fit the pug after hand picking. I'm trying to make it so I could just attach it to the end of my A-1 plug spinner but I think it needs a totally new design. Like a disk that sits flat over the lock and releases tension by pushing buttons on the side instead of in toward the lock. Any thoughts?

[What]

usually a bit of modeling clay will work to hold the pins in place.

[Eyes_Only]

Or stick a small rolled up section of a toilet paper cardboard tube to impression and hold the pins in place and then turn the lock. But then if you have a commercial tubular pick, either Peterson or SO type, you wouldn't need a tubular plug spinner because once you've picked the lock with these tools you basically have a working key anyways.

[raimundo]

if you have a tubular lock with nine cuts on the key, one of the cuts may be off center and is only there because an immobile steel pin is used as a ward in part of the keyway, or it may be one of the rarely seen tubular varients, of which there are a suprising number, if you go to steve arnolds gun room on the web, on the second page of lockpicks, you may see a lockmasters do everything pick, an inquiry to steve arnold once produced a fact sheet on the most expensive one that showed variations on the tubular lock with 11 and twelve pins, just seeing this sheet is a revelation on how many tubular varients there are.

[Moosekace]

yeah my original thought was to make an adaptor for my plug spinner to save money and not buy a tubular lock pick, but I think an entirely new design of plug spinner will cost me more in time and money than to buy a real tubular pick. Well see.

[Brianpojo56]

Pack it with dental floss and leave a tail end hanging out for easy removal. It's cleaner than clay. Then you can use a tubular key blank with the outside nipple ground or filed off to push down on the packing and turn the cylinder.