Specific lockpicking situations

[Cyberfox]

This morning I come back from my night shift and try to enter in my house but my wife insert key in the cylinder and rotate them.So in this situation key is completely useless and I must try to pick lock at -9C with rotated key from another side or sleep in the car

Cylinder is typical euro cylinder nothing special to pick but rotated key and low temperature (frozen fingers) do things much worse.



This is my last untypical lockpicking situations.
Please tell us about yours.

[gloves]

This morning I come back from my night shift and try to enter in my house but my wife insert key in the cylinder and rotate them.So in this situation key is completely useless and I must try to pick lock at -9C with rotated key from another side or sleep in the car

Cylinder is typical euro cylinder nothing special to pick but rotated key and low temperature (frozen fingers) do things much worse.

[IMG]http://i44.tinypic.com/2j3ia0x.jpg[img]

This is my last untypical lockpicking situations.
Please tell us about yours.

I'm sure you're not the first one nor you'll be the last to be in such a situation
Using gloves to keep your hands warm may have helped a bit, also I guess everybody keep them around more than lockpicks. In fact I'm sure I'm not the only one to have had about everything on hand while being locked out, except lockpicks
So you end up entering from windows after wondering if you'd become an improvised Santa and get inside from the chimney, though common sense would just hit the door or the doorbell until your beloved one wake up and let you inside.
Also I think it'd be way more delusional to be locked out with pin-tumbler lockpicks and be against a double bit or disc tumbler lock.

Thanks for sharing your experience with us

[Cyberfox]

Of curse I first hit doorbell but without any success because bell is to silent to hear on the first floor, window is to high and tightly closed.
So only options is to pick the lock or crack the door (this is my first idea)

[Evan]

@Cyberfox:

If the key rotated in the inner euro cylinder is deadlocking the exterior euro cylinder than whether by key or by pick you will experience the same results... No entry...

This is sounding more like you are asking specifically how to bypass the lock to re-engage the exterior cylinder from the outside of the door and that feels like it is crossing the line and getting into advanced topic discussion...

~~ Evan

[Cyberfox]

Picking euro cylinders with key from another side is nothing special and this is the video of how to do this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRjyRe88GOw

[raimundo]

thanks for that video cyberfox, I was going to mention that you could push back a key that is in the other side, but that is only if it is not turned a bit, the original poster did not specify if that was the case

[Legion303]

This is sounding more like you are asking specifically how to bypass the lock

I didn't get that sense from the post. Cyberfox essentially said "here was my atypical picking situation; what's yours?"

-steve

[Cyberfox]

To avoid any misunderstanding. Picking and opening euro cylinder is possible no matter how much is key from another side turned. When once link one side of clinder with other you rotated both sides simultaneously and key is not pushed back, they stay in the cylinder and rotate.

But when I start this post my first idea is to talk about untypical picking situations, e.g. picking in the cold environment, emergency picking, picking with improvised and unstandard tools, picking damaged lock, etc.

So locpickers folk tell as about yours unusual picking experience

[Theist17]

Had to pick my way into my outbuilding the other day so I could get at my other tools and get to a residential rekeying job. Haha, it was a good time.