Curious bout own skill

[CaptHook]

Here is an American 3200 I/C padlock.

Heres a pic with core removed.

Chuck

[Hojo]

Then whats an I-Core luke?.....

[Luke]

I-Cores, such as best for example are often used in commercial buildings, often with many employees. The consist of two shear lines, one for the user and one control shear line. They are used because of the ease of changing cores. For example an employee leaves so the business owner can go up to the lock with his control key he can remove the cylinder just by turning and pulling and then he can replace it with another core! These are also meant to be some what hard to pick because of the two shear lines to pick it you have to pick ONE of them and this requires a special touch!! At this crypto page http://www.crypto.com/photos/misc/sfic/
there is information about the best I-Core.

Cheers,
Luke

[HeadHunterCEO]

you can have an ic with just and ind and core key.

the magic in the IC is the extra pin in the back. when raised up to the right altitude it binds up a lever on the back of the core and that inturn retracts the side bar which holds the thing into the cylinder assy.

the last pin don't havfe a driver or spring above it.

usually a very small bottonm pin with 5-10 .010 top pins above it.

as you can imagine this make picking that last pin very hard bewcause it essentially has 10-15 shearlines it which means it will almost always not bind.

it is the opposite situation of your normal pin pick mindset. you want it to bind aT THE SHEAR LINE because thats what allows you to pull the core.

if you really need to get a core out for whatevcer reason a 3/16 bit placed slowly lower than off center in the top part of the core is how you do it.

you drill like any other lock but you gotta stop after 5-6 pind (depending on lock) so you don't damagef the little lever on the back.

you will know when you hit it though because thay are usually made of steel and feel much diffrent whil eyou are drilling.

after you hit it stop drilling and if you did it right you can turn it 10 degrees clock wise and it will come out just like you had the contreol key and the cylinder housing will not ever suffer a scratch.

if you did it wrong get ready for nightmare

[Chucklz]

HeadHunter, what brand of SFIC are you referring to? None of my Best IC's work in that manner.

[CaptHook]

Me neither.
Chuck