Lock Picking 101 Forum

by **Romstar** » 13 Dec 2004 18:20

peterrastall wrote:Ok Romstar, I beleive you! Has anyone got any ideas about things that I can use as a pick? I mean hacksaw blades... where am I going to get them? Or windscreen wipers? I dont know what to do! PLease help me! THanks Peter

Hacksaw blades can be found at just about any hardware store. Windscreen wipers can be found in the bin at any garage. You obviously want the ones that use the metal splines to hold the wiper on. Just be sure to look at them.

If you look around, you can find amazing aounts of things that can be turned into picks. The classic street sweeper bristle is still quite common in the UK I would imagine.

In any case, get yourself a bench grinder, and a few hacksaw blades, wiper splines, or something else. Even flat steel plumbing snake.

Romstar

by **mcm757207** » 13 Dec 2004 20:41

Pickey wrote: If there were no locks on doors, i can guarantee you that more than 25% of all burglars would use the door instead of windows.

I can guarentee you that more than 98% of all burlgars would use the door instead of windows if there were no locks on them.

by **skold** » 13 Dec 2004 20:56

you would get the odd dumbass that would smash the window next to the door with no locks

by **P1mpF0x** » 13 Dec 2004 20:57

I think it just depends on the type of burglar... if they wanted to be quiet so nobody would hear them then maybe they would pick a lock or try to find an open window. If they were a balls out burglar then i think that they would just bust down the door and take some stuff and drive away.

by **Hojo** » 14 Dec 2004 6:59

lol that little girl has no tension thingy =P (someone said it) Pfft shes got no hope....Im 15, started 11 months ago....

by **Pickey** » 14 Dec 2004 15:15

skold wrote:you would get the odd dumbass that would smash the window next to the door with no locks

Lmao, with how dumb society is nowadays, there would probably be quite a few of those people :lol:

by **skold** » 14 Dec 2004 18:29

yeah, there are quite alot of stupid people around...

by **P1mpF0x** » 14 Dec 2004 20:53

Like people who are trying to pick a lock or trying to open windows when the front door is open.

by **Wolfman** » 21 Feb 2006 1:39

peterrastall wrote:Ok Romstar, I beleive you! Has anyone got any ideas about things that I can use as a pick? I mean hacksaw blades... where am I going to get them? Or windscreen wipers? I dont know what to do! PLease help me! THanks Peter

Most of the time i keep my windsheild wipers on my car and my hacksaw blades on my hacksaw... Kidding, i knew what you ment. Hacksaw blades can be bought at your local hardware store (usless wallmart moved in and killed all the small bussnesses in your town... in which case there at wallmart) or if you have a dollar store you can buy some cheap ones there. Wiper blades can be aquired at almost any service station. Just ask, they ususal have old ones sitting around. OR...(the fun way) you can dress in full camo and wait untill night, and steal them from your niebors.

Many things will work as picks. Basicly any thin steal you find can be made into picks. I find that the little screw drivers ment to tighten glasses makes a great tention wrench all you need to do is put the head in a vice and lightly hit it a number of times to bend the neck at a 45-90 degree angle. You can use files or a grinder, or a dremel to mill the thin steal into picks. Dremels are very good for this because they are realativly cheap ($30 for a single speed. I have one), versitile, and reliable.

I have a question. Why wont your parents trust you. If you plan on using picks for unlawful perposes you should leave now. BUT... seeing as you cant figure out where to get windsheild wiper blades or hacksaw blades, im gonna say your just sheltered. I mean, i had my own hacksaw when i was 10. Very handy. *thinks* or maybee i wasent sheltered enuff...

Dont take me to seriously, I joke alot... very sarcastic jokes.

by **weldman** » 21 Feb 2006 6:40

I'm 20 and I've always had a little interest in picking locks. I always used to try with paperclips on the locks on the file cabinets in high school but never knew enough to open anything and now that I know what to do I still cant open a lock with a paper clip.

by **Jason13** » 21 Feb 2006 11:51

I started 4 months ago picking locks and im 13

Its fun hobby to pick lock and its also a bit frustrating when you cant get the lock open, but thats the hole point of a lock its a puzzle!

by **nezumi** » 21 Feb 2006 14:57

I'm 25. I've been interested for ages, but not just in lockpicking, rather in security in general. I now work in computer security (unfortunately, mostly on the paper pushing side). I never really tried to pick locks because I didn't have disposable income for a picking set and this strange idea that picking other people's locks or worse, damaging said locks, may possibly be ethically unsound.

by **jordyh** » 21 Feb 2006 15:09

I'm 17, started reading on the basics of picking when i was 15 and i started picking when i was 16.

I've allways been interested in security in general, and i've spent some months learning the basics of computer hacking and security.

Hacking was too elaborate for me, as i needed something i could touch.

And then i found out about picking, i've been addicted ever since.

Progress is going rather fast, and it's starting to get rewarding, can't wait to get into apprenticeship at the local lockie (who is considering the matter).

by **illusion** » 21 Feb 2006 15:31

I just turned 18 today.

Began when I was 17, and I estimate my total time since starting, to be roughly 7 months.

I have as much interest in the lock mechanisms themselves, as I do picking them

by **CPLP** » 21 Feb 2006 17:16

illusion wrote:I just turned 18 today.

Congratulations illusion!

I'm 23, my interest was born, I guess, when I was 20. I only started picking 5 months ago and I've been addicted since then!

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