Hi all, I am very new to lock picking and am having some problems on my progressively pinned locks by southord. So... A very newbie question
When I try to test the pins without tension the pins move freely up and down. As soon as I add any kind of tension the lock seems like it is moving out of alignment making almost all of the pins difficult to manipulate. I have tried using different degrees of tension including barely adding anything to gravitational effects right up to much former tension.
What I mean is that the pins seem to push the tension tool back up against its rotational direction when manipulated and the lock seems to almost shift slightly even when they don't set. This is making it hard to identify which is the binding pin as almost all of them feel much harder to push against than I would expect apart from the front one.
I have tried top of the lock tensioning to see if this helps but my tools are too long on the end inserted into the lock to make this easy and I have nothing to modify them with.
Is the above normal and just requires practice to get used to (which seems highly likely).
I am more than happy to spend hours plugging away at this until I have it solved but it is making my learning longer than I would have expected over the past three days
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