When it comes down to it there is nothing better than manual tools for your Lock pick Set, whether they be retail, homebrew, macgyver style. DIY'ers look here.
by pjzstones » 22 Nov 2009 15:30
i've used a double and single ball on car locks. i guess that'd be a doouble sided wafer but they've worked on a ford f-250 too which is a pin tumbler. 
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by bubblezq » 1 Jan 2010 10:34
i like to use them on wafer tumbler locks with a fal style wrench
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by stratmando » 14 Jan 2016 15:16
Don't mean to wake up an old thread, No better place to post, and it has the ability to post. I've heard the double ball be called a snowman, as it looks like one. I was googling "double diamond picks" as I can't find anymore. Ran into this thread. Great pick, Works great on the Medeco as you have the ability to not only raise or lower the pin, but you can rotate as well. Picked my first Medeco about 20+ years ago. Anyone know of a source for the double diamond?
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by kwoswalt99- » 14 Jan 2016 15:47
stratmando wrote:Don't mean to wake up an old thread, No better place to post, and it has the ability to post. I've heard the double ball be called a snowman, as it looks like one. I was googling "double diamond picks" as I can't find anymore. Ran into this thread. Great pick, Works great on the Medeco as you have the ability to not only raise or lower the pin, but you can rotate as well. Picked my first Medeco about 20+ years ago. Anyone know of a source for the double diamond?
As far as I can tell, no one sells diamond or double diamond picks. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if Klom makes one, but I didn't see one in my brief search. I've seen a diamond before, but never a double.
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by GWiens2001 » 14 Jan 2016 18:41
Think what you are calling a double diamond is what some call a batarang.
There is a specific tool that was supposedly made to pick Medeco locks that has two picks side by side and a wheel on the handle which, when rotated, moves one of the picks beside the other. It was supposed to rotate the pins. More a gimick than anything. Have one that was given to me a while back, but never opened a Medeco with it.
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by GWiens2001 » 14 Jan 2016 22:26
Been too long since I saw this pick. Dug it out so I could take some pics. There are not two blades. Just the one that is moved forward and backward by rotating the wheel.  And instructions/information that comes with this marvelous, high quality tool that opens locks merely by displaying the pick. (snicker, snicker).  Gordon
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by Squelchtone » 14 Jan 2016 22:29
I can't believe someone owns one of these things in real life. I wonder if this was made by the same guys who made the electric one with dual reciprocating L-rakes back in the early 70's. that's real cool GW, real cool.
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by GWiens2001 » 14 Jan 2016 22:38
What can I say? BS is not all I'm full of. Gordon
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by LocksportSouth » 16 Jan 2016 10:42
One of those things that it seems like it should be a good idea, but falls flat of expectations, I guess. Squelchtone - I kinda "invented" that product a few days back, not realising that it was already a thing. I figured that if a bogota works so well as a rake, what about two half-width bogotas pinned together at a 1-length offset, actuated back and forth by an electric motor to quickly zip the pins. Sounds like a similar idea, no? Apparently it's a bust though 
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by billdeserthills » 16 Jan 2016 12:12
kwoswalt99- wrote:stratmando wrote:Don't mean to wake up an old thread, No better place to post, and it has the ability to post. I've heard the double ball be called a snowman, as it looks like one. I was googling "double diamond picks" as I can't find anymore. Ran into this thread. Great pick, Works great on the Medeco as you have the ability to not only raise or lower the pin, but you can rotate as well. Picked my first Medeco about 20+ years ago. Anyone know of a source for the double diamond?
As far as I can tell, no one sells diamond or double diamond picks. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if Klom makes one, but I didn't see one in my brief search. I've seen a diamond before, but never a double.
Klom makes a split pick, with a diamond on each side. I have picked a couple of double sided auto locks with mine
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by kwoswalt99- » 16 Jan 2016 13:47
billdeserthills wrote:kwoswalt99- wrote:stratmando wrote:Don't mean to wake up an old thread, No better place to post, and it has the ability to post. I've heard the double ball be called a snowman, as it looks like one. I was googling "double diamond picks" as I can't find anymore. Ran into this thread. Great pick, Works great on the Medeco as you have the ability to not only raise or lower the pin, but you can rotate as well. Picked my first Medeco about 20+ years ago. Anyone know of a source for the double diamond?
As far as I can tell, no one sells diamond or double diamond picks. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if Klom makes one, but I didn't see one in my brief search. I've seen a diamond before, but never a double.
Klom makes a split pick, with a diamond on each side. I have picked a couple of double sided auto locks with mine
I saw that one, but I was thinking more along the lines of a diamond version of the ball or snowman picks.
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