spool pins

[wolffie]

Hi all,
I'm totaly new to this site.
I was surfing the net trying to find out how to pick a cylender lock with spool pins when I stumbled across you.
very interesting site.
I'm only picking locks as a hobby.
I can pick or rake standard cylender locks but just cant get the feel for this spool pinned one.
any ideas??
cheers.

[le.nutzman]

Hi all,
I'm totaly new to this site.
I was surfing the net trying to find out how to pick a cylender lock with spool pins when I stumbled across you.
very interesting site.
I'm only picking locks as a hobby.
I can pick or rake standard cylender locks but just cant get the feel for this spool pinned one.
any ideas??
cheers.

Welcome to the site, we're glad to have you and hope you enjoy your time well spent here. Please fill out your profile to give us a bit more about YOU in the meantime.

Use the search feature on the website, there's more than 1000 posts alone relating to spool pins/security pins and how to deal with them. Nobody can just "tell" you how to pick them or manipulate them unless we know for sure that it is a spool pin. It could be serrated, mushroom, or any other type of security pin currently in use.

Regardless of the pins you encounter, security pins in particular, extremely light tension, understanding the feedback and A LOT of practice.

[prag]

What I find helps is to ease up on the tension, but not too much as the other pins will "unset", and then just sort that pin out and reapply tension.

But do a search on this topic as le.nutzman suggested, there's a lot of info.