I would be amazed if you didn't remember your first one, Gordon...
Nice work Achyfellow! That lock is an Ezcurra. Any idea of the model? If it's a lock that is not nor will be in use, could you post a photo of the key for identification? Ezcurra is a nice brand, Congrats for pulling that off with that lock!
Go ahead, keep plugging away, picking on me! You will end up on bypass or with rigor mortise. - GWiens2001
fgarci03 wrote:Nice work Achyfellow! That lock is an Ezcurra. Any idea of the model? If it's a lock that is not nor will be in use, could you post a photo of the key for identification? Ezcurra is a nice brand, Congrats for pulling that off with that lock!
It is, a DS15. I am sure the keys are somewhere around here, but we haven't used that cylinder in like 7 years so who knows. I will look for them today and will post a photo if I find them
I picked it several more times just to make sure it was not a random lucky thing. I always have problems with two of the back pins, I guess they are serrated or have any other kind of nasty trap thing in there I don't know of. And the top pins have a weird feeling, it's almost like they fall in position themselves without me doing anything. I really want to disassemble it, but I'll wait until I have something else to pick before risking this one
I'm not sure about the DS15. But the DS10, which is almost the same (has 1 less pin on top and bottom, and has a passive ball bearing on the right side) does not have security pins. But they sometimes DO feel weird!
Let me know when you disassemble the lock! Becarefull, it's a tough lock to put back together!
Go ahead, keep plugging away, picking on me! You will end up on bypass or with rigor mortise. - GWiens2001
7 days since I started picking, and felt like trying something harder than a chinese padlock (£5) that i've been practicing on. I use this "Abus 880 steel-o-chain" Level 7 extra on my bike, and judging by the price (I paid approx £45 for it) I was pretty sure this one was going to make me sweat. 30 seconds later the lock is picked, and I feel like crying. This Abus made me sad. Besides lack of any challenge from this lock, I now don't feel safe leaving my bike in the streets anymore. To be honest, the chinese padlock was more of a challenge. Happy picking. Pete.
TrioVing 7 pin mortise with T7 keyway. (At least that is the blank it uses in the ILCO catalog. Still waiting for my order of blanks so I can impression a key.) My first 6 pin fully pinned Medeco did not take that long! Then again, the Medeco had a wide-open, non paracentric keyway. The same could not be said for this TrioVing.
Gordon
Just when you finally think you have learned it all, that is when you learn that you don't know anything yet.
I just picked a ScanLock SLX-5 cylinder for the first time. Six pins up top and a five pin sidebar! Very exciting. I will upload a picture later... The cylinder is in a Schlage padlock. Cool lock, fun pick.
Nice work yourself, PhrygianRadar. Have one of those, but have not had time to attempt picking it. Working on picking some BEST locks from another member, but need to practice a bit more.
Gordon
Just when you finally think you have learned it all, that is when you learn that you don't know anything yet.
GWiens2001 wrote:Nice work yourself, PhrygianRadar. Have one of those, but have not had time to attempt picking it. Working on picking some BEST locks from another member, but need to practice a bit more.
Gordon
I just got done opening about 22 of those, all K keyway. I wrote down the pinning because they were the hardest I have ever come across! Nothing made it easier to pick them. Not the special wrenches, not even knowing what the control key looked like (once I picked the first one I decoded the control key and it opened 13 of them)! It was a nightmare because even though I had a control key, the pins were worn down soooo much that on a bunch (about five) it didn't work. I tried to jiggle the key vigorously (that is an understatement. The key was lucky to survive!) and that only worked on two of them. So I had to pick six out of 22 and it was a really tough project. The upside is that I got to keep half of them, so I have a nice set of cores to either use or sell.
Good luck on them. I have picked a lot of those now for the locksmith that I go to so he can use them on different things, and he has always let me keep one for every one that I pick or get open. I have always picked them blind, this was the first time that I knew what the control key looked like and I still had a problem picking them. Some pinnings are just tough no matter what. I am compiling a list of pinnings that gave me heck so I can use them in the future on my personal locks.
Here are some pictures of the ScanLock I picked. It is in a Schlage body which has the letters "SFK" on the back, which I am sure stand for the year of the locks production, but haven't looked into it that much yet:
I actually got it picked and felt the plug turn, but as I was taking it out of the vise I thought it reset itself, so I put it back in the vise and went inside for a while. When I came back to work on it some more, I realized that the keyway was at about 2 o'clock, so I got a thicker tension wrench and turned it the rest of the way to open it. Good times...
A nice new Wilson Bohannan brass padlock. I ordered them from the manufacturer's website and they arrived quickly. Very high quality brass padlocks. I picked the smaller one for the camera for the extra challenge:
Good times...