illusion wrote:They can be picked using a standard SouthOrd tension wrench, and a hook pick. I know this because I personally picked an Ingersoll this way.
They do need quite a lot of tension, but that's not really the difficulty in terms of picking said locks. The hardest part I found was that the levers are under a lot of spring tension and I found it really hard to keep them set. [...]
I couldn't have summed it up better. If you think about what illusion has said here, you will realise the trick.
