tri circle

[dylan]

i found a tri circle lock at home and tryed my home made picks on it

i got it a few times and then my friend(heaslip) told me that some of them you need to pick the pins in a certain order


true?

[illusion]

can you give a description or a model number of the tricircle?

if it's a 265 then it will have 3 mushroom pins - figure out were these are and target them first.

what do you mean by the order? if you mean the order in which they bind then on the 265 they set from front to back.

if the lock is old then it affects picking it as well.

did you single pin pick it? or rake it?

[funboy79015]

In all pin tumbler locks there a certain order in which the pins need to be lifted. That order varies from lock to lock.

[ThE_MasteR]

can you give a description or a model number of the tricircle?

if it's a 265 then it will have 3 mushroom pins - figure out were these are and target them first.

what do you mean by the order? if you mean the order in which they bind then on the 265 they set from front to back.

if the lock is old then it affects picking it as well.

did you single pin pick it? or rake it?

Why do you say that the 265 has 3 mushrooms ? Mine has 6 mushroom drivers, and yes it's a 265.

[illusion]

can you give a description or a model number of the tricircle?

if it's a 265 then it will have 3 mushroom pins - figure out were these are and target them first.

what do you mean by the order? if you mean the order in which they bind then on the 265 they set from front to back.

if the lock is old then it affects picking it as well.

did you single pin pick it? or rake it?

Why do you say that the 265 has 3 mushrooms ? Mine has 6 mushroom drivers, and yes it's a 265.

funny - mine is the same model and only has 3

I could only presume that they randomly place a number of security pins in

that's weird - check my guide - you can clearly see 3 mushroom pins - yet yours has 6..... really strange

[Shrub]

As said it depends on lock to lock which pins bind first and in which order, it also depends on how many machines knock the locks out, if there is just one machine then yes the chance is that each lock of that same type will bind in the same order but even if there only 2 machines knocking that lock out then the binding order could be either of them, the machine could also have been reset or calibrated which could also re-ajust the binding order.

[dylan]

its a 263

[dylan]

actually its a 264

[jason]

Those Chinese Tri-Circles are bloody horrible - they are so badly built that they can be a little "interesting" to pick out in the real world.

I hit one about a week ago - it had been outside for a couple of months and the shackle had managed to rust itself into the body - that coupled with the freezing weather meant that the pins had frozen solid - suffice to say buy a cheap lock spend ten times the amount for my time to open it.