Questions of Binding ???

[Sebastian]

Hi

Sorry for the headline but i had no better idea. When I read the MIT Guide i always read:"Find the pin, which binds most". "You can feel it when you get an Opposition." Well, sounds good so far. But it doesn´t work on my lock.

I don´t feel anything when i push a pin down. I don´t feel a anything on the tension wrench or an Opposition on the pick itself.

Could it be that I take too much force while turning the lock or is this force, I should feel, so weakly?
Please help me! I have no idea what i make wrong!

[Varjeal]

That statement made in the MIT guide is rather ambiguous, especially to beginner's. It takes a very keen sense of touch to be able to find the pin which binds the most.

As you apply a light amount of tension, gently attempt to lift each pin slightly. The pin that MOST wants to turn the plug in the opposite direction that you are applying direction in will be the one you want to pick first. The difference between two or more pins may be very slight. I'm not sure what kind of lock you're working on or how you are holding it. (or how it is mounted).

In your case, if you cannot tell which is binding most, it is a generally accepted practice to begin at the most rearward pin in the lock, and work your way forward. Use slow, lifting motions when lifting pins, and be patient.

[The Key Maker]

Can i just add a litlle tip that may help!!! Certainly dont take this the way to pick a lock but as an excercise. ..........Add tension and scrub the lock and on some locks you will see the front pin which is clearly visable set. It will go down lower into the cylinder. Now take a little hook pick and push on it feel the pressure apposing your downward force, there should be little or none! Now with you pick still there slowly release the tension and the pin springs back up and lifts up your pick, now push down and feel the larger force the pushes your pick back up!!!

Now you should be able to feel the difference in the upward force against your pick between set and unset pins.....Think Zen, as you are doing it imagine in idealist terms what should be happening!

Hope that crappy exercise helps!!! hehe well it helped me!