wallmart lock

[biggar101]

Hey i was hoping not to make a thread about this and hoping someone would come on msn and help me out but nothing. I bought this wallmart lock called "securty" i think and its driving me crazy i cant pick it for the life of me. when i just try to lift up the last pin its like hard to push up. it might be a tight spring but i dont know.

Hoping to get some help from this

Thanks
Biggar

[Schema]

Just throw some variants in there, try picking it differently each time. A hard pin is usually caused by too much tension. As a newB, my biggest discovery was the realization I really dont need too much tension to set the pins, along with that, you dont need to push, or "pick" the pins as hard. I've been able to open more locks quicker and more consistently with lighter tension and being easier with the pick.

Just my 2 pennies

[biggar101]

yea i have been picking locks for about 1 year and half and i dont even add that much tention

[Gear Head]

Yea I saw those, and opted to get the mountain home security ones instead.

[Gear Head]

On the mountain homes I have, you have to just feather it or it gets alot harder, with or without the security pins inplace.

[dwkbb]

I don't know if it's a cheap lock or not but I have a few cheap padlocks that are much more difficult to pick than more expensive popular brand-name locks. I wonder if they are machined or put together in such a way that there is too much play or slop which makes it difficult to set the last pin or two without having to use a lot of force, even with what seems to be the right amount of tension.

[digital_blue]

Some of the cheapest of padlocks can be very nasty to pick, simply because of how poorly they are made. They give poor feedback, multiple pins will bind at the same time, etc. This is most common in the crappy-est of crappy padlocks.

db

[illusion]

Some of the cheapest of padlocks can be very nasty to pick, simply because of how poorly they are made. They give poor feedback, multiple pins will bind at the same time, etc. This is most common in the crappy-est of crappy padlocks.

db

Tricircle come to mind.

[mike-z]

yeh i had this lock before the pins where so loose that it was inpossible to pick

[devnill]

Some of the cheapest of padlocks can be very nasty to pick, simply because of how poorly they are made. They give poor feedback, multiple pins will bind at the same time, etc. This is most common in the crappy-est of crappy padlocks.

db

I discovered this te hard way a few days ago, when i was going back to one of my first locks(a knockoff masterlock). It turns out the that it needed heavy tension to open(and i mean heavy to someone who doesnt pick) the pins pretty much ground into place. ick.