New electric pick article

[Gordon Airporte]

I came accross this link today.
http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/lock ... kpick.aspx
It uses an Oral-B 'hummingbird' fossing dohickey,
A great quote from the intro: "There seems to be several areas of humanity that create social boundaries preventing discoveries of all types."

Yeeeahhh. Okay. "But officer, the safe door was a social boundary that was preventing me discovering the contents! Cut me some slack!"..."Well, it's like a physical boundary, but illegitimate because people are, like, brainwashed into thinking they need them and stuff."

[Chrispy]

God bless the geeks.

[spQQky]

Here's my little hummingbird pick that I made yesterday. Kind of cute isn't he? It was pretty easy. The unit was on sale at the local pharmacy store for only $7.00. It works ok. It seems to work better on smaller padlocks than KIK sets. Maybe due to the fact that I just used a straightened hair pin for the pick, may be better to use a rake or diamond but I didn't want to cut the handle off my good picks. I cut the head off one of the flossing forks and heated the hairpin so it would melt into the end nicely, and used the tooth pick accessory on the inside, again just melted in so it's nice and tight but can be easily interchangable with different pick ends. I could post better construction details than are on the other site if anyone is interested. He really HUMMS with the 9v battery, sounds more like a bumble bee now.

[pick_maker]

what was the motored device? some kinda nose picker?

[pick_maker]

duh? read the first bit.

[Omikron]

Here's my little hummingbird pick that I made yesterday. Kind of cute isn't he? It was pretty easy. The unit was on sale at the local pharmacy store for only $7.00. It works ok. It seems to work better on smaller padlocks than KIK sets. Maybe due to the fact that I just used a straightened hair pin for the pick, may be better to use a rake or diamond but I didn't want to cut the handle off my good picks. I cut the head off one of the flossing forks and heated the hairpin so it would melt into the end nicely, and used the tooth pick accessory on the inside, again just melted in so it's nice and tight but can be easily interchangable with different pick ends. I could post better construction details than are on the other site if anyone is interested. He really HUMMS with the 9v battery, sounds more like a bumble bee now.

[snip]

Great job, it looks fantastic! I love the zip-tie!

[R1cksson]

Here's my little hummingbird pick that I made yesterday. Kind of cute isn't he? It was pretty easy. The unit was on sale at the local pharmacy store for only $7.00. It works ok. It seems to work better on smaller padlocks than KIK sets. Maybe due to the fact that I just used a straightened hair pin for the pick, may be better to use a rake or diamond but I didn't want to cut the handle off my good picks. I cut the head off one of the flossing forks and heated the hairpin so it would melt into the end nicely, and used the tooth pick accessory on the inside, again just melted in so it's nice and tight but can be easily interchangable with different pick ends. I could post better construction details than are on the other site if anyone is interested. He really HUMMS with the 9v battery, sounds more like a bumble bee now.

[Picture]

You can help me with some details here. I can't seem to get the hairpin fit right.

As soon as I have a camera, I'll post some pictures.

[spQQky]

You can help me with some details here. I can't seem to get the hairpin fit right.

You want to cut the head off one of the flossing forks far enough so there is a solid plastic blunt end. Then heat up the end of the hair pin..not red hot, just warm enough to melt into the blunt end and push all the way through. Also melt a slot the same way into the snout of the unit itself, not very far, maybe 1 mm. If you go too far the diaphram will no longer vibrate, just pull it back out a bit. Or you can cut off the end of one of the green toothpicks and melt the pin in it the same way, though it's so narrow it's kind of hard to get it right. That way you can remove the pin from the snout easier or even have different styles of picks that easily plug into the snout of the unit.

[R1cksson]

You can help me with some details here. I can't seem to get the hairpin fit right.

You want to cut the head off one of the flossing forks far enough so there is a solid plastic blunt end. Then heat up the end of the hair pin..not red hot, just warm enough to melt into the blunt end and push all the way through. Also melt a slot the same way into the snout of the unit itself, not very far, maybe 1 mm. If you go too far the diaphram will no longer vibrate, just pull it back out a bit. Or you can cut off the end of one of the green toothpicks and melt the pin in it the same way, though it's so narrow it's kind of hard to get it right. That way you can remove the pin from the snout easier or even have different styles of picks that easily plug into the snout of the unit.
[Picture]

I think I did it, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. The locks are giving me a hard time. Any tips?

Also the hummingbird starts to die on me after a second or ten, is this normal?

[spQQky]

I think I did it, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. The locks are giving me a hard time. Any tips?

Also the hummingbird starts to die on me after a second or ten, is this normal?

Yes well as I said earlier this is not really a very practical electric pick for everyday use and I've only got it to work on small padlocks. It just doesn't have enough power to push the pin springs up on larger locks. It's more of just a cute novelty than a real electric pick. Maybe the electric scissor conversion to pick Stickey thread would be more useful for you?

[R1cksson]

I think I did it, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. The locks are giving me a hard time. Any tips?

Also the hummingbird starts to die on me after a second or ten, is this normal?

Yes well as I said earlier this is not really a very practical electric pick for everyday use and I've only got it to work on small padlocks. It just doesn't have enough power to push the pin springs up on larger locks. It's more of just a cute novelty than a real electric pick. Maybe the electric scissor conversion to pick Stickey thread would be more useful for you?

I already thought of that, but even the small padlock doesn't like it much.

I made it because I saw the hummingbird lying in the store for only €6,50 ($7.70) and I like soldering irons.

Maybe I'm better at pleasuring my girlfriend with this thing in stead of opening locks...

Where can I get those electric scissors? Are they expensive?

[R1cksson]

Only one picture of my creation could be captured. Windows sucks ass. .

[R1cksson]

And this board sucks ass also!

And I do too!

[spQQky]

Your picture looks ok, you should read the BBCode instructions more closely about your message tags.

[CVScam]

The right amount of tension seem to help a lot when using it, I put a diamond pick on mine and it was longer in length than the one pictured. I used a very light touch and had pretty good luck on easy locks. I did get it to open a very hard 6 pin dead bolt I have on my back door like about 3 out of 10 times with a LOT of raking. Locks that have hard springs or take a lot of tension or have restricted keyways(my schlage) was no luck.


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