I picked my first lock!! it seemed too easy

[SkyStalker]

Your advice made my world a better place mate!

Im now working on my next pick



PS: Shit i forgot the BBCode

[SkyStalker]

I DID MY SECOUND PICK

illusion im greatly indepted to you!

[illusion]

I'm glad it was helpful

illusion im greatly indepted to you!

you are indebted to nobody but yourself... I showed you the door so to speak, but it was you who walked through it... I had little to do with it... You had the drive and determination to see it through, I only told you how to do it.

I helped somebody pick their first lock, to me that's all the reward I need

Try and get some mushroom pins and repin your lock with these... they will give you another challenge

once again congratulations

[Keyring]

SkyStalker: I have to say congratulations to you too. I got one of those Abus cylinders when I was in Germany last summer. It took me about three weeks to get it open, it's trickier than it should be.

I took one end of it apart before I managed to pick the other end. In case it's of interest...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/ ... _C83_2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/ ... _C83_1.jpg

[SkyStalker]

Try and get some mushroom pins and repin your lock with these... they will give you another challenge

i can buy single pins??

[illusion]

Try and get some mushroom pins and repin your lock with these... they will give you another challenge

i can buy single pins??

go to a local locksmith and ask if he has any mushroom pins.

I did this and the guy was nice enough to give me a lot of them, and even some old locks to practice on.

Be honest and tell him what you want them for... bringing him several beers will also help persuade him

[SkyStalker]

I got a nice locksmith in my town, too. He gave me some C83 ABUS on that he lost the keys (is it "on that"?) ... 30 minutes before, i bought one at another locksmith

[Avictus]

I just picked my first lock. It was a padlock that I bought from the hardware store last night. I don't have any lockpicking tools yet, so I used a paperclip for the pick and a small piece of flat metal I found for the tension wrench. It took me about 15 minutes. It was pretty exciting. I thought I was going to have to work at this for weeks before being able to do it.

I'm going to go over to a friend's house tonight and make some lockpicks out of hacksaw blades with his bench grinder. While I was able to do it with the paperclip, it was still quite annoying. The paperclip was really soft so it was bending a lot and making it difficult to push up the pins.

Thank you to everyone on this site for all of the excellent resources that you have made available. I never actually thought I would be able to do it, and I probably wouldn't have with out Lock Picking 101.

[gang_wheell]

[professor.rubik]

Any other ideas for buying pins? Every locksmith I talked to about buying springs or pins treated me like a criminal. I kept getting the "We never sell to the general public" line. Can anyone help a newbie that mangled a few springs and lost a few pins in his first disassembly?

[dmux]

hahah yea.. i was shocked when i picked my first lock

i think my exact words were when it opened "holy $#%T"