making a tubular lockpick(any ideas?)

[karl]

well ive gotten work experiance with a locksmith this week,and he showed me a tubular pick,and man i was exicited!!!it opens locks in like 2 seconds!(im sure alot of you know this and have them,but this was my first time seeing one!)

anyway,now i really want one,but theyre too expensove for me,so i was looking at it trying to think how i could make a simple one.

so my very basic idea,was: a pipe that fits into a tubular lock,with grooves cut into it with a dremal(for the pick bits),then bent thin pieces of metal as picks,then use rubber bands wrapped arond to hold the picks down and give them a sort of stiffness.


any ideas??

----karl----

[skold]

It will work as long as it's made perfecty.

[HKW]

It will work as long as it's made perfecty.

Like communism?



HKW

[devnill]

use a bic pencap. if you find one that fits in the lock twist and jiggle it around a bit and it should open right up
I saw a few video using this technique, ill see if i can dig em up

[inedible_sword]

use a bic pencap. if you find one that fits in the lock twist and jiggle it around a bit and it should open right up
I saw a few video using this technique, ill see if i can dig em up

If you could find the video's I would be extremly interested. Could you send me a message or something when you find them or just tell me how this technique works. I am interested in seeing how this would work with out having any picks to press on the pins. Thank you.[/quote]

[grit1]

I'm sure the bic pen thing has been discussed here, and if I will tell you that it won't work on all tubular locks - far from it. The diameter of a bic pen is only right for some kryptonite bike locks and for cheaper variations of laptop/computer locks made by kensington and imitators. I'm pretty sure a pen will not do anything on an Ace II. ~Grit.

[inedible_sword]

Thanks for that bit of info. I am just not familiar with tubular locks and want to learn all i can about them. I ordered a tubular lock online and is expecting it to arrive shortly. I just want to know how to open tem without spending lots of money on a pick just for tubular locks. Since I am only going to have one of them for now to work on.