TUBULAR PICKING

[franko452000]

TUhi all, franko here..... grad. from F/B. bout a year now!. when i got my dipoma's i was like ( that's it ! ). i know no one in the trade....but was hooked. i thoutht i have too teach myself. i started with padlocks! asking friends at work if i could take home there locks, & bring them (open ) the next day.100% there. word of mouth my next locks were combo locks.locked or unlocked 100% in this area also. now! the task at hand.......TUBULAR LOCK !..my supply catalog offered a course in it !. i got a standard 7-pin pick, lock, tape & booket. took me a week too open that lock!. my sucess came from picking into the lock. bear with me my qustion is coming up... now learning of the left & right offset. 8 center...i got myself the pick. my catalog dos'nt offer these locks! so i practice on the coke-machines at work..lol..OK...........my question! i picked opened my std. lock working into my lock..instruckions 4 the off-set say to work from the back out ! .. i tryed it on my std. lock (no way ).. CAN I OPEN THE OFF-SET LOCK< WORKING INWARD ?

[logosys]

TUhi all, franko here..... grad. from F/B. bout a year now!. when i got my dipoma's i was like ( that's it ! ). i know no one in the trade....but was hooked. i thoutht i have too teach myself. i started with padlocks! asking friends at work if i could take home there locks, & bring them (open ) the next day.100% there. word of mouth my next locks were combo locks.locked or unlocked 100% in this area also. now! the task at hand.......TUBULAR LOCK !..my supply catalog offered a course in it !. i got a standard 7-pin pick, lock, tape & booket. took me a week too open that lock!. my sucess came from picking into the lock. bear with me my qustion is coming up... now learning of the left & right offset. 8 center...i got myself the pick. my catalog dos'nt offer these locks! so i practice on the coke-machines at work..lol..OK...........my question! i picked opened my std. lock working into my lock..instruckions 4 the off-set say to work from the back out ! .. i tryed it on my std. lock (no way ).. CAN I OPEN THE OFF-SET LOCK< WORKING INWARD ?

I'd love to help you, but I've no idea what you just said... I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul...

[hzatorsk]

It seems your instructions are referring to a standard pin-tumber lock.

I've never worked inwards or outwards on a tubular lock.... But, I've worked around clockwise and counter-clockwise.

Even then... I had more success by testing each pin and working the one that was binding. In other words... no specific order.

[Hak]

TUhi all, franko here..... grad. from F/B. bout a year now!. when i got my dipoma's i was like ( that's it ! ). i know no one in the trade....but was hooked. i thoutht i have too teach myself. i started with padlocks! asking friends at work if i could take home there locks, & bring them (open ) the next day.100% there. word of mouth my next locks were combo locks.locked or unlocked 100% in this area also. now! the task at hand.......TUBULAR LOCK !..my supply catalog offered a course in it !. i got a standard 7-pin pick, lock, tape & booket. took me a week too open that lock!. my sucess came from picking into the lock. bear with me my qustion is coming up... now learning of the left & right offset. 8 center...i got myself the pick. my catalog dos'nt offer these locks! so i practice on the coke-machines at work..lol..OK...........my question! i picked opened my std. lock working into my lock..instruckions 4 the off-set say to work from the back out ! .. i tryed it on my std. lock (no way ).. CAN I OPEN THE OFF-SET LOCK< WORKING INWARD ?

I'd love to help you, but I've no idea what you just said... I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul...

Lol..
franko452000..wow. The first half of your post was somewhat recognizeable, then the next half was like totally whack. Lol, im guessing before you typed this post you drank a whole 6 pack of red bull energy drinks, and they all started kicking in around the end of your post. Something like that

[hzatorsk]

His post made perfect sense to me.... Perhaps I, too, was 'under-the-influence' so to speak...

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[Hak]

Lol

Red Bull isnt really something that would put you 'under the infulence'.
Its just an energy drink full of caffein (<<spelling?) and a few other things that just wake you up and make you energetic. But i guess drinking a whole 6 pack probably would make you so wired you would seem like your drunk or something.

I simply meant that franko was so wired he was just not paying attention to what he was typing. Implying that he just typed without looking or trying to type, just putting down random words, while trying to stay on topic. And the fact that every punctuation mark in that post were exclamation points (!), that also sends 'mixed messages' lol in the first sentence he actually has an exclamation point followed by a period (!.)

[hzatorsk]

Yeah Hak... we know... it was a just little humor.

franko452000,

Sorry about having a little fun with your post... If you do have questions... please post them. We do occasionally give a serious answer.

Cheers

Harold

[frollard]

serious answer - you're supposed to work in toward out (would that be outward?)

I dont know of a technique to work it inward.

[DiLate]

Why must these people type the way they speak? Is it really too much effort to organize one's thoughts into something more than half@$$ed abbreviations spackled between sentence fragments? If you truley wanted an answer to the question, isn't it worth the time to think about how you are going to word the question?

Of course those without a mastery of the language are exceptions.

Not a flame, just an observation.

[Buggs41]

Haw cum yu peck on da whey wee camunakate??


ROFLMAO! I agree with the last post.

[hzatorsk]

serious answer - you're supposed to work in toward out (would that be outward?)

I dont know of a technique to work it inward.

Is it just me... or is there some sort 'missed the concept' fog in the room?

Tubular locks are round. All the pins are exposed and each are the same distance from the front of the lock. There is no such concept as inward and outward. Even if there were such a concept, (as with inline pin tumbler locks)... You still will have better success picking the lock by determining the bound pin first.

There is no defacto order.

[CycloneJack]

Yea- To get a full explanation on the workings of a tubular lock, use the search button. Its been hashed and re-hashed before.

[frollard]

serious answer - you're supposed to work in toward out (would that be outward?)

I dont know of a technique to work it inward.

Is it just me... or is there some sort 'missed the concept' fog in the room?

Tubular locks are round. All the pins are exposed and each are the same distance from the front of the lock. There is no such concept as inward and outward. Even if there were such a concept, (as with inline pin tumbler locks)... You still will have better success picking the lock by determining the bound pin first.

There is no defacto order.

nonono - I mean, how the actual tubular pick works - insert, remove a bit, twist, insert, repeat. - correct me if I'm wrong, but that works the pins from furthest IN to their shear lines. - (out)

THATS what I was saying.

[hzatorsk]

Doooh!! I thought he was manually picking it one pin at a time. Okay... disregard everthing I said.... I was trying the help the poor guy do it the ole fashioned way.

Tubular picks... I push all the way in. Then relax out just a tiny bit before applying the rotating action.

Harold

[Ethan500]

I have no experience with tubular locks. All I want to say is, I love some of the questions and replies here! These are one of the reason I think this is one of the best board on the net.

Ethan500