I picked em!

[Isakill]

I just started picking monday and I've managed to pick all the way up to 5 pins on a qwickset (well under a minute), and that brinks 40MM padlock (less than 10 seconds)

The qwickset is more of a challenge because the pins are bigger but the way it's setup you start from the front pin and set em in order.

The padlocktook me a while to master but eventually I found the trick. I inserted my hook pick in upside down all the way in, tilted it down, then up, pulled it out halfway and pushed the middle pins down. Viola it popped!!


I had it on my belt loop so it would remind me to practice. now I can do it repeatedly in under 10 secs....
Now I need more locks

Thanks guys for having this extremely informative forum I've learned volumes here!!!

[CPLP]

You can change your quickset combination. Open it and change the pins order

[paku]

Yup Yup i did that at work today. Lol people walking by my desk we're like **wtf?** But if you want more of a chalenge Repin the Kwickset with a high low high low order of the pins. Will make it a little harder and almost feel like a new lock.

[Isakill]

well I repinned the kwickset.... the lock won't work at all now.. and unfortunatly I forgot what pins went where.
I marked the keypins with a sharpie.
One spring barely pokes out of the pinhole and I can't get it to set and I can see the sheerline on pin 1 now.
Honestly I don't know if this lock was a real kwickset. It was sitting in my parents storage building out of it's package, never used...


oh well once I get around to it I have a bunch of padlocks to practice with until some building gets renovated and I can get some trashed cylinders there maybe.

[Octillion]

Now I need more locks

Seems to be a perpetual problem in lockpicking… I thought this hobby was cheap when I started.

[Chucklz]

^
Yeah. I remember when you were just picking some of the locks I brought to meetings, now you have all those lovely locks and new picks. Just wait until the day you start funnelling the food/liquor budget into locks.