by Squelchtone » 2 Nov 2009 0:42
thats a nice lock you have there John. I started off my picking hobby with a Master 930 that a truck driver had left on our counter after taking it off his trailer. No keys of course, so someone had to pick the darn thing.
One thing I can give you a tip on is cleaning the keyway out with some sort of degreaser/rust-remover. If your padlock has been used outdoors at all for any period of time, there's a chance it is dirty inside and perhaps rusted or corroded. Never fun breaking your picks inside a lock that although you've picked all the pins, is stuck because something is rusty in the mechanism. Other than that I believe those locks have 1 spool pin, well, at least mine did, you may run into as many as 4 spool pins, and if you haven't read about those yet, they're a special security pin milled out in the middle to look like an empty spool of thread. They get hung up when the plug is rotated, and make picking more difficult.
keep practicing!
Squelchtone
