surprising cheap padlock...

[pretender]

I pulled apart an Ace Hardware padlock and to my surprise I find not one, but four spool pins in the thing.

Explains why it was difficult to pick...here I was expecting it to have one, or none altogether.

Thought y'all would find it interesting. Good intermediate practice lock.

[sublime progie]

i have the same lock, and almost the same post. check here

[url][url]http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?t=8098&highlight=security+pins[/url][/url]

[pretender]

Yeah, forgot about that thread.

Re-read it just now.

Now to figure out how to get this infernal lock put back together with more than one pin, and I'll be set.

[sublime progie]

i used a bic pen to hold the top pins down while i slid the core back in. it is a pain but it works

[pretender]

What I did was put the core back in, drop the top pins into the keyway and spin it around so it locked up, and pushed them into their holes with a paperclip, repeated with the next pin set.

These serrated spool pins are evil.