Yale locks

[toomush2drink]

I have to agree with quin i have just picked my yale lock for the first time and then repeated it at least 5/6 times after, well chuffed. TIP you need the lightest tension possible ( its been said before on here) to defeat the spools. I even managed to pick it with my electric pickgun without it switched on just using the needle !!! I thought it was a fluke, as i was putting it in the lock before i switched it on i adjusted it and voila it opened. I have repeated this and stripped down the lock to see if anything was wrong with it but its all fine.

Yippee i have seen the light on tension and yales, does it feel this good for everyone ?
Oops got a bit carried away then

toomush

[technik]

congrats toomush, any defeat on any lock is a good feeling. Those Yales look like fun, wish I could get my hands on one. Thats amazing about the electric pick not even been turned on!!!

Did you open the lock with the electric gun on? was it quicker than manual picking???

[toomush2drink]

Did you open the lock with the electric gun on? was it quicker than manual picking???

Yes when i first got the gun after a little practice i opened the lock no problem it only takes seconds !! I have used the gun on other yale locks no problem but it wont do my mila euro profile lock, weird.Tension is the main thing with the gun too and in a way i think it helped my manual picking.The downside is it does take the fun out of it but as a professional tool well worth it.Mine is from southord and from the outlet section which are supposed to be damaged,marked or something but the one i got is perfect check this link and price, superb ! http://www.southord.com/catalog.asp?cat=Outlet

[Daniel]

darn yale been doing it for 2 hours in a row now



{Edited by Chucklz for language: Please try and keep it clean}

[WhiteHat]

I have a yale p125/50/129/1 padlock - it frustrated me for ages, then I picked it with the shackle open, now I can pick it closed or open within about 15 seconds each time. from what I've read on this site, it seems like it is supposed to have spool pins in positions 2 and 4, I guess it sort of feels like it, but I've never encountered security pins before so I was wondering (short of taking mine appart) if anyone can confirm whether or not it has spool pins?

http://www.yale.co.uk/padlocks/padlock_database/frame2.asp?Part=P125/50/129/1

Cheers!
WhiteHat

[toomush2drink]

A good way to tell if it has spools is.....start to pick the plug and see if it turns a little suddenly, say about 5 degrees then when you apply some pressure to the pin that caused this it will start to rotate the plug back again, this is a spool pin.
You need very light tension but play around with it and you will see what i mean.
Im not so good at explaining it with words but there are other explanations on the forum that may be better.

toomush

[Daniel]

turns a little suddenly

that rings a bell

[WhiteHat]

I saw two beastly looking yales in the hardware store the other day, they were dusty and down the bottom shelf under rows and rows of shiny brass lockwoods.

they were discouted to $25 from $50 so I picked one up 'cause the're re-keyable.

I put the key in and it wouldn't come out!.... eventually got it out after much yanking, then had trouble getting it back in.

had a closer look at the keyway and you can see from the front that it has serrated bottom pins! (I assume that it also has serrated top pins also and that the very act of puting the key in/taking it out may bind some of the pins.)

so that's the reason they discounted it - yale made a lock with so many security pins that it doesn't even function propperly.

I can't find a picture of it on yale's website so they must have discontinued it.

[Chucklz]

Sounds like fun if your a picking masochist.

[WhiteHat]

hey, technik has a piccy!

http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?p=21054#21054