What did you pick today?

[Rickthepick]

pin in pin padlock

[femurat]

Medeco 51S (original pin configuration: 2 mushroom, 2 standard and 1 inox).
Once a day in the last four days. Average time 5 minutes.
I did it a few times in the past with just an half diamond but rotating the pins "fallen" in a false groove is a pain. It's a lot easier with the groovegrabber.

Thanks to JK and FarmerFreak for the groovegrabber idea, thanks to Ray for the wrench idea.

Cheers

[Rickthepick]

iv gotta get my hands on one of these medeco's iv only had a quick dabble with someone elses but didnt know much about them then.

[femurat]

Rickthepick, I strongly suggest you to get one since it's a completely different lock. It can be really rewarding to open one! Start one pin at a time and enjoy it

[Rickthepick]

Its unlikely il ever get called out to one its just for the fun of it

[rx6006]

Disclaimer: Noob post ahead.

My first pick set and practice lock came today. I settled on the Southord MPXS-20 set and a Schlage SC1-style acrylic practice lock. While I definitely agree with the consensus here that picking this lock is absolutely nothing like picking an actual lock, I have found it useful to visualize the pins while taking note of what I am hearing and feeling. I'm hopeful that a week of practice with this lock will help me better visualize in my head what the pins are doing, once I no longer have the luxury of seeing them move.

[zendude]

of course i picked my confidence abus 65/40. then i picked my new ruko rip-off "ruma 50", kind of boring 5 pin no brainer, feeling quite good i put my hands on a chinesse 1$ 4 pin pad, and that is amazingly hard,it got a very narrow, the springs are crazy tight and it needs a ton of tension to turn the plug, only picked twice with a safty pin bend like a W, by coincedent it looked almost like the key, so its kind of cheating...
is it just my imagination, or is old and cheap padlocks just much harder to pick?

[femurat]

Yesterday evening I warmed up with an American 1105 and then, while watching the tv, I picked up another random lock from my toy box... a BEST 7 pin SFIC padlock. There are many discussions about SFIC cylinders and the 2 shearlines problem so I was unhopeful. I played with it for a few minutes, releasing tension to reset it every time I felt it like picked but stuck (probably some pins were on the wrong shearline). Suddenly the plug turned, what a surprise!

Cheers

[Solomon]

Picked my first medeco biaxial, whoo!




I got it on monday along with a bunch of other locks, practiced on it without the sidebar at first and today I started pinning it up one at a time with the sidebar in. This little guy was a lot of fun and I had a really great time learning how to pick it. The feedback when setting the pins rotationally takes a bit of getting used to and there is a bit of a knack to doing it with a standard pick, but once the sidebar is set there is a very distinct sponginess to the plug when you apply heavy-ish tension. The pins sound much different if you set them before the gates are aligned aswell, so it wasn't anywhere near as hard as I expected it to be. Still, it kept me busy for a few hours a day and the rush I got when I finally got it was immense. It taught me a lot about SPP aswell, I never really concentrated that much on what I was doing until now. Thanks, medeco!

I have a classic sitting here aswell so I'll be playing with that once I give my fingers a rest.

[CharlieCroker]

Today I picked a $30 Master padlock. I used a safety pin and the ring pull bit of a coke can, cut and bent slightly as a tension wrench. I picked it 5 times and took roughly a minute each time because my "tension wrench" kept bending.

I also have a fortress combination lock that I dont know the combination to (i bought it brand new and peeled off the combination sticker attached without peeking). I called upon my trusty coke can again for that technique. I was surprised how quick that method was.

[pjzstones]

today i picked a 6-pin medeco classic on camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoXzF6gxcSI

[Josh K]

Yale cylinder. I felt great when it picked over because I don't have a key for this one and as such everything about it is unknown.

Then I gutted it and saw 3 master wafters in three different cylinders.

[yng_pick]

Best IC-core to the control key position.

Working at a chain drug store today, cylinder in a lever had a broken tine on the tailpiece, causing it to just spin.

Asked if they had control key, and the person holding it was 45 minutes away, but on the way. Decided to play with picking it for a bit, and was convinced I was picking in the right direction, but having no luck. On a lark, tried picking the other direction, and started raking rather than pin by pin, and bam! Turned. Figured it was no good cause thought it had to go the other way, so started to pull out my pick, and the cylinder ended up in my hand! Was quite happy.

Also picked a run of the mill schlage deadbolt this morning on a l/o, not too impressive, but with an audience of 4 wanting to get in, it was most excellent getting it ~1 minute.

[globallockytoo]

Uhaul padlock. But customer had already attempted to cut with bolt cutters so the shackle
was crimped and the bolt would move. Had to destroy the Uhaul bolt.

[piepie]

A paclock Sfic to control line. Also what keyway is this?