Picking a tubular to lock it.

[tmoney1918]

Hello, I am a newcomer to this website but have been amateurishly been lock picking for a while. I have a tubular lock safe with my pain medication and money in it, but I have lost the key. I can easily get it open with a bic pen, but I was wondering about locking it back up because I do not want it accessible to people coming in and out of my house. So, how would I go about locking it back up after I have gotten it open?

[Pick4Kicks]

Perhaps you could
take a picture but i am pretty sure you can just close the door and it should click back shut

[chriswingate]

For a first post that sounds exceptionally suspect man. I'm sure I won't be the only person to tell you this, but perhaps you should call a locksmith so they can make you a new key to this safe of yours. Asking about opening a container locked by a tubular lock, then asking how to lock it up again sounds pretty suspicious. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person on this board that will say this. Sorry if it comes off as being an butthole, but there are plenty of people out there looking on forums like this for ways to get into places they shouldn't be.

Like I said, call a locksmith.

[tmoney1918]

I can understand how you could be inclined to think I am a crook, but alas I am not. I started lock picking as a hobby at first due to puzzles and rubix cubes could not stimulate me any longer. And when I started getting decent at it I made a promise never to have to call a locksmith when I could use my own hands. I generally try to fix my own problems without a professional. Plumbing, wiring, or hell even fixing my motorcycle I typically do it by hand. But, I was thinking about forsaking all of my keys (besides my brother's car keys. i don't think he'd take too kindly to me ripping apart his dashboard LOL) to become more proficient at lock picking. So I googled reverse lock picking as in locking a lock with picks, but it has to do with a different style of lock picking. So I would like to know how would I lock my locks (tubular, deadbolt, and padlock) with lock picks? And they don't just lock when closed either.

[chriswingate]

Locking a lock via lock picking, is the same principal as unlocking a lock via lock picking. How you would unlock it, you do the same thing the opposite way, to lock it.

[tmoney1918]

That concept just doesn't make sense to me. Would I push the pins up like I would normally do and put torque going the opposite way?

[chriswingate]

Ok, you put a key in, turn it one way to unlock it. To lock it you turn it the other way. The pins are still working the same way. So if you are picking it to unlock it, you turn it one way. To lock it you turn it the other way.

[EmCee]

I'm sorry but I'm with Chris's initial suspicions. The question you're asking doesn't make sense. If you have been hobby picking for some time then you must have learned enough about how locks work to know the answer to your question. Opening a tubular lock with a pen isn't hobby picking and wouldn't give much satisfaction to someone for whom the rubic cube no longer offers a challenge.

You're new to the forum and probably haven't read the rules of the site, one of which is the policy of not picking locks that are in use. Hobby pickers buy or trade locks to pick. The idea of dumping all your keys and getting in and out of things by picking locks is not sensible.

One reason for this policy is that it is possible - I don't say likely - to damage a lock by picking it: and you don't want to damage a lock that is securing your property and safety or your medication and money. If you are in a rented room or student accommodation, it's quite possible that the lock on your door is Master-keyed, in which case the likelihood of damaging the lock by dropping a thin Master wafer is increased, leaving you with a lock that neither your key nor the Master key will open and which will have to be replaced, at not inconsiderable cost. So please, forget the idea of forsaking your keys, stop picking locks that are in use, and get some practice locks. If you've lost the key to your tubular safe, you'll have to go to a locksmith to get a new key cut.

Tubular locks are a bit different, but if you're picking a pin tumber cylinder in your hand, the challenge of picking is achieved as soon as it starts to turn, so turn it a few degrees and then just turn it back again - or if you turn it 360deg (aware of the problem that might be encountered when it's at 180deg) then the lock is back to where it was and can be picked again. The only time you'd need to re-pick it to close it would be if the cylinder is integrated into a locking mechanism and relocks when the bolt is thrown back or if you're picking a padlock that doesn't snap closed but needs to be relocked with the key - in which case either don't rotate it the full 360deg or just pick it again.

Cheers...