Olcaytug wrote:Buy a euro-cylinder.. Since they are two sided, you can leave one side complete while repinning the other side. So you can switch between two sides while practicing.
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I would definitely not but a europrofile cylinder to start out in lock picking. Euro cylinders are much harder to disassemble and particularly to reassemble/repin, unless you get a new style one with hex keyed plugs in the pin chambers or one that unscrews into two halves, but this probably won't be the case if you buy a cheap one. Instead - you could try a basic 5 pin rim or mortice cylinder, like a Yale clone. I say clone, because if you buy a real Yale, it'll probably have mushroom top pins in it, and again that's not great for starting out. Don't pay more than $5 for a first time practice lock.
With a 5 pin cylinder with 5 different length pins, you can repin it 120 different ways for practising on. Not bad value really.
It's a sticky at the top of the Pick-Fu forum.
