Spring steel VS stainless steel... pickset Q

[josh0094]

i just ordered the foley belsaw beginner pickset as seen half way down the page here!
http://www.foley-belsaw.com/locksmithingCatalog.html

my question is. even tho this is cheap, would it have been better to go with standered stainless steel? will theese brake easyer? are theese worse in the fact that they are "springy?"

thanks,

[linty]

Spring steel is great stuff. It is fairly flexible and has a tendency to return to its original shape. (high yield strength).

It will snap if you abuse it, but should hold up for years of normal use.

I may be wrong here but I am under the impression that spring steel is more or less standard for pick material and I don't think I'd recommend anything else.

[Eyes_Only]

It doesn't really matter whether your picks are made of spring steel or stainless. If you learn how to apply the right amount of tension you normally won't even notice the difference.

[josh0094]

sweet no problems then! thanks guys...

[Wolfe]

Eyes right it doesnt really matter all that much but i still like spring steel picks over stainless.

[MacGyver101]

You'll be wishing for those stainless picks when we get the Underwater Lockpicking Championships going...

[josh0094]

doesint seem like alot of lockpickers like water that much just from reading around... but maybe im wrong

[Eyes_Only]

No, you're right.

[raimundo]

followed some of those links, but didn't get wet, but of course, look for ssDEV stuttgart site on google, they do some underwater lockpicking? I haven't browsed the ssDEV sites for quite a while, I'll do that today to see if theres new stuff posted.

[Eyes_Only]

I wonder if picking locks under water will make it extra hard to hear the pin stacks clicking when you set it at the shearline. I'm sure you can still feel it but I use both sound and feel to pick locks so I would find this a major challange.

[MacGyver101]

I wonder if picking locks under water will make it extra hard to hear the pin stacks clicking when you set it at the shearline.

It's very hard to identify the direction of a sound source under water -- but I think it would be just as easy to hear the pins. My experience is that even very slight metallic scraping noises transmit quite well under water. My guess is that bumping wouldn't work so well... it would be considerably harder to accelerate the top pins against a fluid.

[Trip Doctor]

Not that it really matters.. but sound travels faster through water (around 3 times I think). Random fact of the day I guess.