Question on Dimple Lock

[MrAnybody]

you can't learn without asking questions

And as one of my teachers used to say, "The only dumb question is the question you didn't ask".

Mind you, that was in the prehistoric age before glories of Google

[fgarci03]

Well, I'm happy!


First off: I disassembled not the lock on the photo I showed, but another one I found arround here with one of the sides already disassembled. Being an Euro cylinder I didn't have much space to re-pin it and it had 6 pins with 4 spool drivers on the bottom, and 4 regular pins above. lock, never thought it was that good!

But even it went straight to the trash can (I didn't manage to reassemble the 10 pins, so I started testing stuff with it until I completely trashed it) it was very educative.

Don't know if it gave me good insights on these locks, or just motivation, a couple of hours later I grabed my simple 6pin Teicocil Dimple Lock (the one in the pics, that I NEVER had been able to pick) and successfuly picked it with a regular tension wrench and a half diamond.

Of course this is a simplistic dimple lock with only 6 pins and no security pins (i suppose it has no security pins, or I would be HUGE) but it's still a dimple lock. Everyone thinks this locks are all top end high security. Now I showed my dad (who always thinks the locks he chooses are great) that it's not like that.

The feeling reminded me when I picked my first lock ever.

Been fussing arround for a bit until I felt a more pronunced rotation of the wrench and then stopped. I thought to my self: ", it has security pins... Or........" And picked the last pin. BAM, lock picked!


I used a rake like technique, I inserted the half diamond sideways in the lock and did a raking motion until I felt some pins picked. Then started one by one trying to finish it. Until it oppened. Then I started to try other ways and I found out that if I insert it almost upside down and jiggle it, it opens a lot faster.

It's not a great technique but at least in these simple locks it's faster than SPP them.
Now i'll start to SPP it to fully understand all the slight delicacies of dimple locks.

Thank you all for the help!
I'll post any new breakthroughs!

Be safe!

[fgarci03]

Sorry for mispelling, it should have been:

DARN lock, never thought it was that good!

and

I thought to my self: "DARN, it has security pins... Or........"

Never thought that word would be considered offensive and I'm very sorry for that.