No street cleaner No wiper inserts

[Brother Paul]

No street cleaner No wiper inserts , what is the next best thing that is easy to get and not to expensive ?

[pjzstones]

hack saw blades are great. if you need wiper inserts visit some auto garages or something similar and ask if you can have their used ones that they just throw away. i go to auto zone and theres usually a few in the trash out side.

[lock2006]

No street cleaner No wiper inserts , what is the next best thing that is easy to get and not to expensive ?

Go to the junk yard pick your own part and get some wiper insert
you will get plenty of this wiper there
good luck.

[drop dead fred]

brick straps are also usefull

[loki-aka]

Wiper blade inserts. Try the auto department at local Walmart.

[Brother Paul]

along with this i was also wondering about metal quality if im going to spend time making they i want to use the best i can

[Squelchtone]

I think someone here had an entire sweeper head up for sale and you could get as many bristles as you needed. Poke around in Manual Picks, or using Google and putting site:lockpicking101.com in your searches or the built in Search.

searching google for "sweeper head site:lockpicking101.com" got me this: http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=46113

good luck,
Squelchtone

[Squelchtone]

jackpot! perhaps Clead is still around and has some more new ones for sale

http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?t=39997

Squelchtone

[Clead]

Sorry, I'm down to my own stash now. I'd be happy to send out some used ones though, and maybe even a couple pieces of virgin for your "keeper" picks. But the vast stash I had is gone to all you guys... 2000 12" bristles!

[Brother Paul]

Sorry, I'm down to my own stash now. I'd be happy to send out some used ones though, and maybe even a couple pieces of virgin for your "keeper" picks. But the vast stash I had is gone to all you guys... 2000 12" bristles!

cool man thx just let me know maybe in pc how much you are charging

[unlisted]

Clead is good people in my books- I got a whole whack for very little cost shipped to me. Probably helped I'm in the same country too..

[E1001]

I have a bunch of wiper inserts, but no street cleaner bristles. Are these both comparable in quality? It seems from what I've read that a lot of people prefer the street cleaner bristles, but I'm not quite sure why.

[Josh K]

If I was going to make my own picks I would grab some high carbon (1095) stock. I'm not sure what street sweeper bristles or wiper inserts are made of, but I'd like to be able to heat treat them precisely.

[pjzstones]

I have a bunch of wiper inserts, but no street cleaner bristles. Are these both comparable in quality? It seems from what I've read that a lot of people prefer the street cleaner bristles, but I'm not quite sure why.

i've heard that street sweeper bristles rust easier.

[E1001]

I have a bunch of wiper inserts, but no street cleaner bristles. Are these both comparable in quality? It seems from what I've read that a lot of people prefer the street cleaner bristles, but I'm not quite sure why.

i've heard that street sweeper bristles rust easier.

Well I'll be glad I have tons of wiper inserts then. They're much easier to get, too. I just go down to the junkyard and the dudes there are more than happy to let you take as many as you need. All the street sweepers where I live have plastic bristles, I'm pretty sure, so I can never get them.