Where to go next?

[mrracer98]

Hey all,

First off thanks for all the good info from everyone this site provides.

I've been picking for a couple months or so now, and I would like to know a bit about 'locks' and what I should buy next. I hear people talk about ABUS 90/50 and Master pads 575/576 etc.etc...

What I've been picking (besides my nose)... Several cheap 5 pin deadbolts (a couple kwickset's some home design thing and a no namer) a 5 pin brinks deadbolt with 2 spools, a 5 pin/5 spools cheap practice lock (which I'm sure is not comparable to a real 5 spool pinned lock) Multiple KIK locks to all my buddies house's (permission granted of course) a couple cheap master locks (laminated with the blue plactic on the bottom edge).

I know the ABUS 90/50 is 5 pinned mushroom, and Very expensive.

I would like to get...

a 6-pinned deadbolt, and
some lock that has some good security pins, or is just known to be hard to pick that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. I do this just for my own sheer pleasure, not for business or criminal activity.

The problem is, is that I don't know what has security pins in it and what doesn't. (I.e. I had no idea that brings deadbolt had 2 spools in it till I took it apart to see) What is hard to pick and what isn't as far as locks go? (I know, of course, that mushrooms and spools are harder...I just don't know what locks have them!)

Thanks guys!!!

[sams choice]

well the main thing is where you shop at. Something that comes to my mind is Brinks rekeable house key padlock. It is just like a deadbolt that uses a kw1 key but just in a padlock. It has 5 pins and 4 spools in it. It is a fun lock. Try that one. i think 12 dollars at walmart? and you can change that pining of it to make it harder. if that is too much, you can find other keys to make it work for. It is a nead lock i say. Checkout the walmart thread that lockdin did for locks sold there. Lot of helpful talk.

[Blink]

You could get a Sargent 6-pin cylinder to play with. Sargent are known to have very close tolerances making them much harder to pick, aroudn here if the business' aren't using Medecos, they have Sargents.

[LockNewbie21]

Sams choice is on with the brinks idea. Try the gaurded shackle 6 pin lock by brinks. hands down hardest lock at wal-mart for the price, also i just did a review on the abus 24/60 that i just mastered, the tolerances on that plus the security pins and the pain in the @$$ warding on the key way make it a heck of a pick. If oyu think your not ready for that try the abus buffo model, its a step down from mine. Also American locks are great to and very hard, i never had the pleasure of picking one but here there quite the pick. Good luck anyways though bud.


Andy