here I want write about my first Lock on which I started lockpicking with passion.
It’s a Broockhage Trainingslock.
I can’t tell anything about the packing because I got it used from a Locksmith for 15€ which is a quite nice price. It came with two matching keys and one blank key with a pretty decent keyway. And the overall finish is quite good although if feels cheap due to it featherweight and the pvc cover.
The lock is made of transparent pvc with a stainless steel cylinder. It contains 5 pins with a kind of crazy bitting, none of the pins are security pins.
When I first started on that lock it really helped to see the pins moving, to see on which pin I was with my hook and how I manipulated other pins with the shaft of the hook.
After a few try's it was really easy to feel the scratching of the pins inside thy cylinder and as you can see I already have some flakes from the pins flying around in the lock, which does not stp the lock from moving.
It’s quite hard to tension it from the opposite side of the pins due to the soft PVC casing.
In principle it’s possible to gut the lock by removing the clamp on the back and push out the Cylinder, maybe I will do that soon to see some security pins working
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All in all that lock helped me a lot to develop a basic feeling about tension and pin location, it was able to show me how fast I can overset pins and general to understand how a lock works.
Due to the comparable high tolerances compared to a standard Abus C3 profile the Pins sometimes get stuck at the shear line where you just have to tickle them a little bit and the lock starts moving.
If you haven’t got a cut away lock but want to have something in your hands rather than just watching Videos about it it’s a quite nice thing to have if you can get your hands on one as cheap as I did. New price is around 60€ which is in my opinion overpriced.
