Electric Lock Pick (PLEASE HELP)

[wolfhunter]

Hello one of my friends told me about a guy that invented a "electric lock pick on steroids" which my friend said the inventor did this because he got tired of using hand picks all the time...I asked my friend where he saw this pick and he said www.blackhawk.com has them...he also said that this pick could open car doors, house doors and padlocks...ect I have looked and looked and still can't find this lockpick he is talking about....


Please Help!!!!

[freakparade3]

First off, there is no magic lock pick that will open all locks. Second, even with an electric lockpick it's all about technique, timing, and many hours of practice. You can't just buy an electric lockpick and expect it to work instantly. You need to practice. Hand picking is far more effective. DO NOT try to open a car with your electric lockpick, you will mess up the wafers and the key will no longer work. In closing, your friend lied to you, or he has no clue what he is talking about.

freakparade3

[barbarian]

Sometimes a working locksmith will use an electric pick because time is money. They can get the customers door open and carry on from there. The electric picks are really not much fun to use. You don't need any special skills other than saving the money to buy the thing.

Many people here like to pick locks the manual way because it shows a skill. Takes time to develop, it requires and promotes a good understanding of what is happening in the lock.

Good luck with your search. It won't take you long to find an electric pick. I think you would have a lot more fun if you learned picking the old fashioned way.

[Engineer]

Even if you did buy one of the electric picks that are going around, you are likely to be VERY disappointed with it. It does take skill to operate. The thing only bounces the pins around inside the lock, you still need some skill to work out how hard and when to try turning the lock.

Even worse is that many car locks can be damaged or destroyed altogether unless you are skillful in it's use. As Freakparade said, even on here there are many cases of destroyed wafers in car doors.

Even then, it is not "covert" access, you will still trigger the car alarm and unless you have a 'smith's license, reposessor's license, or can prove you own the car, you are looking at some serious trouble.

More and more cars are moving to chipped keys anyway and electric pickers are no use there.

[TheSkyer]

Ok, so read all the warnings above and then read this.

Electric picks do exsist. A little googling will get you very far in your search. They will work on quite a few cilinder and padlocks but not on all of them, and even with and electric pick you do indeed need the touch to get it open (tention wrench operation is REALLY importand, even with an electric pick).

There's really nothing special about electric picks, bumpkeys or even rakes can open a lock just as quickly, it's no magical instrument. If you just want the lock open a pickgun can be perfect but it's not really all that fun. Maybe the tought of being able to open lots of locks is nice but in the end it feels a little cheap because it requires little skill.

As already stated, trying to open a carlock with it will ruin the lock, please don't try it

Hope this helps you

[chev49]

A person needs to learn how to pick manually first anyway before converting your friendly Home Depot tool to an electric pick. Also, I work on a lot of old cars.... not ALL cars have wafer locks.... as most people think. Rick

[Engineer]

Actually here in Europe, very few cars now have wafers. Some have disc detainer locks like Fords, but more and more they all seem to be moving over to chipped keys. Trying to use an electric pick on any of these is probably a disaster.

I think the OP is in America though, where wafer locks are still a lot more common. Not all locks of course, as you say! This actually is part of the problem, you even need to know the sort of lock you are looking at before even attempting electric picking. or you damage your vehicle and/or pick.

[freakparade3]

A person needs to learn how to pick manually first anyway before converting your friendly Home Depot tool to an electric pick. Also, I work on a lot of old cars.... not ALL cars have wafer locks.... as most people think. Rick

Most of us here are very aware not all cars use wafer locks. We for the most part are united in not wanting a person who clearly has no ides what he is doing to attempt to pick a car lock with any tool. It does not take much to damage a car locks wafers, and new pickers tend to be quite heavy handed.