What did you pick today?

[gdeadbolt]

Opened an unbranded wafer lock this morning. I was only able to get into it once with the wafer jigglers, had much more success with a standard tension wrench and a Southord ball end pick. Ten wafers total in this lock.

[jbrint]

Feeling pretty good today. Got an open on an American 1205, which is my luckiest pick ever and well beyond my skill set. I bought the lock with the intent of "growing" into it and was just feeling the serrated pins so I could start training my muscle memory and what do you know? It opened right up. I have spent the last 2 hours trying to duplicate that experience and have been unsuccessful. The wife was indifferent but I've been tickled pink about it.

[Korver15]

Feeling pretty good today. Got an open on an American 1205, which is my luckiest pick ever and well beyond my skill set. I bought the lock with the intent of "growing" into it and was just feeling the serrated pins so I could start training my muscle memory and what do you know? It opened right up. I have spent the last 2 hours trying to duplicate that experience and have been unsuccessful. The wife was indifferent but I've been tickled pink about it.

Haha my wife is the same. I pick something I feel is amazing, rush to show her and she says "yay a lock. Now its open. Hurray". I remember my first American. They are fun little guys for sure, and they love light tension!

[jbrint]

Happy Day. Waiting for a password and "Hello Dolly". Im not exactly sure how many serrated pins are in this and I don't have a key, but counting the "crunches" (what I am calling when the serration hits before setting the pin) I counted 8 which seems to me like 4 serrated pins. This is my only security pin pick at this point an the wiper insert tension tool allows me to keep a feathers worth of tension until I turn it. Feeling good.

[knowspicker537]

Picked a rusty old Taylor cylinder that I thought was way to gummed up to pick but it wasnt, nothing special haha

Knowspicker537

[Robotnik]

Finally decided to take down all these two-lever Master 44 and 55 padlocks I've accumulated over the years as part of bulk buys. Filed an old key down as a pick, and about 45 seconds and some shackle tension later, I had open padlocks.

Not difficult by any means, but they're about the only novel mechanical locks I've picked lately; been on an electronic lock kick for a bit.

[femurat]

Had an hour to play yesterday evening and dug out the old toys-box. Picked up random locks without looking and opened them.
I had a lot of fun!

Cheers

[femurat]

Another half hour of fun

Congrats to all the fellow pickers that are picking locks a lot harder than these. The locks inside my first toys box were "boring" when I've put them in it. Now I'm a bit nostalgic and dug it out. It's nice to see that I can still open them easily. I remember the personality and what pick worked better with some of them. Others are a surprise after all these years.
I'm planning to dig out all of my locks and pick them, and then decide if I still want to keep them or not. Then I'll find a way to dispose of the unneeded ones. Trades? Sells? Dunno. I'll let you know.

Cheers

[Robotnik]

WB 620 from one of my local utilities, Pacific Power & Light (purchased off eBay, not jacked from a neighborhood transformer )

Still looking for a Portland General Electric and a NW Natural Gas padlock (aside from those in use, of course...)

[GWiens2001]

Was it the seller who wire-wheeled that lock?

Gordon

[Robotnik]

Was it the seller who wire-wheeled that lock?

Gordon

Indeed it was. Not my favorite look, by any means, but the only PP&L lock I've seen come up in a long stretch of casual searching.

As shiny as the exterior was, the interior components were exactly the opposite. Veeery dirty; hard to pick without heavy lubrication .

[Papa Gleb]

Jbring, congrads on the american. I remember my first american (700), picked it while out smoking and once it opened I dropped my smoke and ran home jumping for joy running to share with my wife lol

Robotnik, dude great picking on those Masters but you wasted an original blank for that? ouch hurts me to see that lol.

[Malekal]

DL 5 Pin. Way easy.

I got a couple others that i'm bitting my fingers on!

[Robotnik]

Robotnik, dude great picking on those Masters but you wasted an original blank for that? ouch hurts me to see that lol.

Not a blank per se; made the pick out of a cut key that didn't go to anything. Sometimes my big box o' cut keys and my big box o' keyless locks match up, other times the orphan keys get altered into something that will open the locks.

[LocksportSouth]

Not much of an achievement I suppose, but I'd been struggling with my new cutaway repinnable practice lock for ages, even finding 2 pins fiddly when placed apart, so I just decided to whack all 6 standard pins back in and challenge myself. Spent ages working on it but I eventually found out a "trick" for this lock (pins 1,2, and 3 "kinda" set, then 6 and 5 get pretty tight, those PROPERLY set, then 4 gets REALLY tight. Set 4 (loosen up a little on the tension, apparently I have a death grip once I get focused...) and then if it doesn't work, re-set 1, 2 and 3). I've done this several times in succession so can say that I've now successfully cracked this lock in it's current pin config . Yeah, it's a cutaway so I can see when the pins set and yeah they're standard pins but eh. I consider it an achievement!

... I didn't have a photo and couldn't find the thread for a while so I went and picked it again. Such a rush!