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Can This Lock Be Picked?

Having read the FAQ's you are still unfulfilled and seek more enlightenment, so post your general lock picking questions here.
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Can This Lock Be Picked?

Postby juliemeyer877 » 14 Feb 2009 21:51

I am new to lock picking and I need to know if a certain kind of tubular lock is pickable. Ive seen this kind of lock picked before http://www.monarchcoin.com/images/locks29.jpg
and I've never been successful at it. However, I would like to know if the lock in the link above is different from these locks in any way. http://www.monarchcoin.com/images/locks29.jpg
or
http://iss4locks.com/images/campic7.gif

I want to know if the two locks above are pickable, and how. Also, are they harder to pick than the first lock I listed? Thank you very much for helping me.
P.S. I have a southord 7 & 8 pin tubular lock pick.
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Re: Can This Lock Be Picked?

Postby WDPaladin » 15 Feb 2009 5:40

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Re: Can This Lock Be Picked?

Postby mh » 15 Feb 2009 9:29

The 1st two links you mentioned are the same, and all of your links show images of locks that seem to be pickable.
"The techs discovered that German locks were particularly difficult" - Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton w. Henry R. Schlesinger, Spycraft: The secret history of the CIA's spytechs from communism to Al-Qaeda (New York: Dutton, 2008), p. 210
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Re: Can This Lock Be Picked?

Postby n2oah » 17 Feb 2009 0:01

All of these locks should be relatively easy to pick with commercially available tools.
"Lockpicking is what robbing is all about!" says Jim King.
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Re: Can This Lock Be Picked?

Postby ToolyMcgee » 17 Feb 2009 6:16

That's alot of questions for a first post. I guess good grammar goes a long way.. The only remaining differences I see in the 2 locks pictured, is that one is keyretaining and the other is not.

Good luck with your hobbiest's coin locks. :|

Check out the tubular and nova lock descriptions.
http://monarchcoin.com/laundry-locks.asp
"Those? No, you don't want those. C'mear and I'll give ya' a good price on the real stuff." :lol: Classic sales pitch.
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