Shaking Your Locks

by **dougfarre** » 12 Oct 2007 19:10

When picking locks, do you ever shake your lock as a technique to hear and tell if you have picked (or falsely set) pins or not? I feel like i use this technique constantly, but when watching other pickers, I rarely witness this.

Am i a loner?

by **lunchb0x** » 12 Oct 2007 19:20

sometimes I do shake them, but the only time it can be done is if its a padlock

by **JackNco** » 12 Oct 2007 20:03

I have done in the past but i dont really use it as a technique as its not something you can do with a mounted lock.

John

by **mrdan** » 12 Oct 2007 20:30

I am guilty of this too :oops:

by **Dooms_day** » 12 Oct 2007 21:44

i think its inaccurate, most of the locks i pick are old and rusted so the pins don't move around unless the key or my pick forces them too

by **UEDan** » 12 Oct 2007 22:22

Yeah I do this sometimes, hearing the clicking of set pins give me a hard on.

by **Trip Doctor** » 12 Oct 2007 22:22

Haha yea, I used to do that, but don't find myself doing it anymore.

by **ObiWonShinobi** » 12 Oct 2007 22:35

I sometimes give one a good SMACK.
It sometimes makes pins reset that are stuck past the shearline.

by **Eyes_Only** » 12 Oct 2007 22:44

Ditto on that.

by **JK_the_CJer** » 13 Oct 2007 5:07

I do this quite a bit and probably need to stop :-)

by **digital_blue** » 13 Oct 2007 8:48

Yeah, I used to do that a lot. I don't find myself doing it as much anymore, but it was certainly a method I used to gauge how far along I was.

Much, much harder to do on a mounted lock though. Darn near knocked the hinges apart.

db

by **raimundo** » 13 Oct 2007 9:15

years ago, I had a schlage padlock which would remain picked when the plug was apparently at top dead center, this was particularily because it was loaned to some newbies who probably made the pins into the shape of little peanuts in the shell and the drillings into something dug by ants,
so to be sure it was relocked, it had to be smacked, when a lock gets to this condition, its probably also very easy to pick any way.

As for shaking the cylinder to see if the bottom pins are loose, I still do that occasionally, but this does not mean that the top pins are not bound in the shear.

by **freakparade3** » 13 Oct 2007 9:56

UEDan wrote:Yeah I do this sometimes, hearing the clicking of set pins give me a hard on.

Just a wee bit to much information there my friend.

by **josh0094** » 13 Oct 2007 23:13

usefull if you get stuck on a lock! i do it somtimes

by **poor paperclip picker** » 24 Oct 2007 17:49

I haven't tried this but I think I might on the lock that I am stuck on. It sounds like a really good idea.

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