What did you pick today?

[femurat]

Thanks guys

Yeah, the second viro may look like them, but it is a lot smaller than Scandinavian oval cylinders.
Here in Italy we do have a lot of viro: it's a local manufacturer founded in 1942.
I didn't know the Finnish translation, but I knew it was the Latin word for man.

Cheers

[lost profit]

i bumped a mortice lock, picked a chubb 220 ,and picked a vectis , honest

[MrScruff]

I cut my practice lock back to three pins to focus on SPP and feeling the pins instead of relying on what I can only call dumb luck because my dumb luck ran out. After about an hour of picking and two fingers turning kind of purple I finally managed to figure out which pin was binding and only lift it instead of basically raking with a short hook. Picking three pins may not be the most amazing achievement but I learned something important from it and feel like I leveled up in the process.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to ice my fingers.

[Doctor Hexagon]

I intercepted a box that was headed for the scrapyard and acquired myself a box of 54 locks.


Amongst them was a Best IC mortice cylinder. I thought to myself, "jackpot". I've been wanting to play with one of these for the longest time. So about an hour ago I decided to try my hand at it.

I wasn't paying too close attention to time but I think it was about that long, but after around 10 to 20 minutes of work:


This is so rad. As soon as I got it open I just about squealed and started running around my apartment shouting "I got it!"

It's little things like this that are a true blessing after a turbulent day at work.

[Doctor Hexagon]

It's been a good week so far.

The first thing I picked today was an Em-D-Kay padlock. It take me much time to pick; maybe 5 minutes. It was similar to a Master No.140 in overall construction but it was more challenging due to the higher number of security pins. It came in on a customer's document safe, but the customer was in a hurry so I didn't pick it until after I had already cut it off the safe. Was an overall fun lock.



Now... for possibly the highlight of my picking career... The shop has a bunch of Medeco mortice cylinders sitting around in boxes that are used, and haven't been even looked at for a long while as far as I know. Many of them do not even have keys. It was nearing the end of the day, so I decided to go for it, and about 6 to 10 minutes later:



I jumped out of my chair shouting jubilant expletives once it turned. More info on the lock: standard Medeco 5 pin. Not biaxial as far as I know, and definitely not an m3. Another thing that made it a personal accomplishment was that I picked it using my backup tools.

So then, that's the story of my first ever Medeco picking attempt, and thankfully, picking success.

[deception]

It's been a good week so far.

The first thing I picked today was an Em-D-Kay padlock. It take me much time to pick; maybe 5 minutes. It was similar to a Master No.140 in overall construction but it was more challenging due to the higher number of security pins. It came in on a customer's document safe, but the customer was in a hurry so I didn't pick it until after I had already cut it off the safe. Was an overall fun lock.



Now... for possibly the highlight of my picking career... The shop has a bunch of Medeco mortice cylinders sitting around in boxes that are used, and haven't been even looked at for a long while as far as I know. Many of them do not even have keys. It was nearing the end of the day, so I decided to go for it, and about 6 to 10 minutes later:



I jumped out of my chair shouting jubilant expletives once it turned. More info on the lock: standard Medeco 5 pin. Not biaxial as far as I know, and definitely not an m3. Another thing that made it a personal accomplishment was that I picked it using my backup tools.

So then, that's the story of my first ever Medeco picking attempt, and thankfully, picking success.

It's a Biaxial. You can tell from the logo-ish thing on the left hand side of it.

Congrats on the Medeco.

[Doctor Hexagon]

@decption,

Thanks a ton! Yea, I just did a little research on the lock and discovered it was one of their biaxial locks. This is so rad. If work will give me a good price on them I should be coming home with about 6 to 10 used medeco biaxial cylinders.

Adding some BiLocks to the wishlist also.

[Doctor Hexagon]

After lots of frustration and picking these several times and not realizing it, I finally turned the plug the rest of the way on both of these locks a few minutes ago.

This is my first complete success with an American padlock.

[MrScruff]

Finally picked a Master 530 I picked up at the hardware store. Once is luck, twice is success, so I finally had success.

[Wizer]

Finally: Medeco Bi-axial, 6 pins, 5 mushrooms, false slots, and all.. The real deal!!

[Doctor Hexagon]

Nice work Wizer! Did you jump out of your seat and start yelling "I did it!" like I did when you opened it? Heheh.

+1 for opening a 6 pin also. All the ones I have are 5 pin only.

[rwaldo]

I picked a 6 pin Best padlock and a 6 pin Yale padlock; both of which I have picked multiple times. Then for entertainment purposes I picked a couple of Master locks that I had lying around. I actually learned something about lockpicking today from my nine year old daughter. She is absolutely fascinated with lockpicking just as I am. She is quite good for her age. She can pick pretty much any Master lock that is put in front of her. So, I have to keep Master locks around the house to keep her entertained. She has picked the 6 pin Yale padlock once with a little coaching. She actually taught me a lesson today on tension. Her pressure on the tension wrench is a lot less than the pressure that I put on the tension wrench. There was a padlock that she was working on and she got it in about two minutes. About an hour later, I picked up the same padlock and I gave it a try. I could not get it. Then I thought...how could she get it so easily? What is she doing differently that I am not doing? Tension! Don't put so much tension! It popped right open!

[Wizer]

Thanks, Doc. Yes I must have yelled something like that in Finnish.
The customers gave me weird looks when half an hour later I still had that grin on my face.

[Rickthepick]

LOL
my wife thinks iv lost my marbles when i start parading round with a newly opened lock

[Doctor Hexagon]

@Rick, she just doesn't understand

Tonight I opened a Schlage Everest. I don't have any of the tension tools that lift the check pin for you or a milled blank. I found that my slimline half diamond pick is perfect for lifting the check pin.

The two Medeco locks I picked earlier this week but thought I'd include them. The biaxial I picked at work yesterday afternoon, and the regular one I got open on Monday night.



This is my first time opening a Schlage Everest. It's a great feeling doing something that a co-worker thinks isn't possible. ^,.,^