Bump Key HAMMERS--please post ideas, designs, pics, info etc

by **vector40** » 9 Oct 2005 17:19

My hammer, by the way: http://berkeleyhigh.org/provinggrounds/ ... hammer.jpg

Two metal rulers (of different brand and flex, actually, but whatever), duct-taped back to back, with a small chunk of the wood from my practice board on one end, wrapped with quite a bit of duct tape, on the theory that it would add a bit of cushion.

I've found holding it about in the middle with a small-to-medium-length but decisive stroke works best for most stuff. For pull-back bumping, I hold at the end and give a long swing. (My fingahs!)

Still tinkering. Wish I had more locks here. This is TOO cool.

I have not, by the way, found that differences in pin number (well, insofar as 5 and 6 are different) matters much.

by **ThE_MasteR** » 9 Oct 2005 17:32

Nice hammer man !!

BTW, are those all SC1 999 keys ? Maybe I can deal with you..

by **vector40** » 9 Oct 2005 18:03

Just ask around your local lockeries, fella :-D

You may get rebuffed once or twice, but I can't imagine that nobody in town will be willing to perform what is essentially a straightforward code cut.

by **vector40** » 11 Oct 2005 18:28

Current status: I've bumped both of my test cylinders to death :oops:

Neither really wants to open, although I can still pull-back bump the lousy one.

I'm really curious whether anyone else has had good results with pull-back as well.

by **vector40** » 14 Oct 2005 15:51

I'm not shutting up until someone answers me :lol:

I know at least a few of you have messed around with BKs. (Can we call them BKs? Seems a little silly.) zeke? Chuck?[/i]

by **raimundo** » 14 Oct 2005 16:20

I like the whopper with cheeze

by **ThE_MasteR** » 14 Oct 2005 23:15

vector40 wrote:I'm not shutting up until someone answers me I know at least a few of you have messed around with BKs. (Can we call them BKs? Seems a little silly.) zeke? Chuck?[/i]

That's nice, it's sounds more covert or something, movie style loll..!! Only us will know what BKs are now loll.

by **zeke79** » 14 Oct 2005 23:25

vector40 wrote:I'm not shutting up until someone answers me I know at least a few of you have messed around with BKs. (Can we call them BKs? Seems a little silly.) zeke? Chuck?[/i]

Vector,

I have been able to "pull back" bump some low security locks such as schlage 5 and 6 pin standard C keyway locks but I find that if there are a couple of 9 bittings that I have more luck with a 10 cut key. I have also found that this method seems to be harder on the locks themselves. Not only from a pin and spring stand point, but from a lock face stand point.

by **vector40** » 15 Oct 2005 1:14

Do you mean that you found minimal-motion to work better on locks with 10 pins?

by **n2oah** » 15 Oct 2005 9:17

Zeke told me that he may be getting the infamous tomahawk.... :shock:

by **ThE_MasteR** » 15 Oct 2005 9:45

n2oah wrote:Zeke told me that he may be getting the infamous tomahawk....

How the fu** ? He better be getting a couple of them so that I can buy one off of him :wink:

by **zeke79** » 15 Oct 2005 10:43

n2oah wrote:Zeke told me that he may be getting the infamous tomahawk....

Thanks n2oah.... My Tomahawk will be here by the end of next week so there really is no may be getting to that one.

vector,

Yes I find that minimal movement bumping works best on locks with higher tolerances such as the evva GPI lock I wrote about in my bumpkey article. I have not tried bumping any dimple locks so I cannot comment on them as to the best method. If you are having better success with the pull back method then I would say keep working with it. With bumping it seems so far that everyone has their own technique.

by **n2oah** » 15 Oct 2005 11:00

ThE_MasteR wrote:
n2oah wrote:Zeke told me that he may be getting the infamous tomahawk....
How the fu** ? He better be getting a couple of them so that I can buy one off of him

Make friends with Germans and Dutch people. :wink:

by **ThE_MasteR** » 15 Oct 2005 11:07

n2oah wrote:
ThE_MasteR wrote:
n2oah wrote:Zeke told me that he may be getting the infamous tomahawk....
How the fu** ? He better be getting a couple of them so that I can buy one off of him

Make friends with Germans and Dutch people.

None around here, but I guess there are some on this forum.

by **sublime progie** » 15 Oct 2005 11:34

i dont know if it has been said or not, but that thing the doctors use to hit your knees and elbows would work pretty good wouldnt it?

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