New sparkling products

[NDEFreak]

-sorry, I meant Mul-T-Lock, not Mul-T-Pick.

Oops.

[NDEFreak]

-Skold,

The tubular pick with the blue handle is actually very good. We have the exact same model in the workshop. It is identical in function to the
HPC-7SB, for the un-initiated thats the quick-reset standard 7 pin / small bore diameter tubular pick, of which I own personally and I can say that the grip is actually more ergonomic than cosmetic in appearance and is more comfortable to use ( well...as comfortable as a tubular pick can be I guess!! ).

Also, those Mul-T-Lock picks and the picks for the dimple key locks work well on the Chinese manufactured dimple lock cylinders. Mainly due to the not-so-close tolerances utilised in their manufacture. There was a pickset for standard and dimple key locks that was also going around at work with the Automotive kit, this pickset came with a sample lock cylinder that was of the Mul-T-Lock type ( basic straight copy ) which was easily picked with the tools included, but having said that, the cylinder may have been assembled to allow it to be picked easier - obviously for indirect product promotion etc etc.

[NDEFreak]

But hey, with all due respect to the Newsparkling company, or whomever actually manufacturers the tools, it is their design and they had the ability to come up with the idea and put it into production before I did, so good luck to them.

I dont think I am in the position to question the operational integrity of their products, once again I am just providing food for thought.

[prim]

www.newsparkling.com.sg

Has any body else noticed this link has a virus?

Its a Trojan phel

every time a click on it, it try's to put a virus on my computer but my anti virus blocks it.

[illusion]

bugger!

[skold]

I have so many virus' my computer is immune to any new ones.

The tubular pick, i may have to give ordering from there a go.

[2hammers]

Hi Pinky,

I was just wondering if you recieved the tools you ordered
from New Sparkling, and if so what were they like?

[pinky]

the 7 pin dimple lock pick is excellent for garrison locks, some of the car bits are ok, multilock interactive picks DO NOT FIT UK SECTIONS ! , good cheap tools, best buy is the 4060 kit as you get a good cross pick sold by sks for £70, a dyno plug spinner sold by sks for £45 , a ford tibbe pick, a set of dimple lock rakes as sold by locksmith-tools.co.uk for £50 , a 7 pin garrison pick as well as a host of good auto picks and a toyota and bmw overlifter, the 4060 kit is worth every penny of its £80.

[Shrub]

If anyones ordering from the uk i would like somthing if you would do me the favour of adding it to your order

Pm me if your happy to do this, thanks.

[pinky]

items well worth buying from new sparkling;

item 4059 , 7 pin garrison pick
item 4060 , best buy, car and domestic kit

the interactive kits would be a good buy for you shrub as you have equipment to mod them for uk sections.

the car programmers look good for price, but with no updates etc or support, a waste of time and money, better off with the obd system for value and coverage, or pay as you go AD100.

[Shrub]

Whats involved in the mods to the interactive kits?
Have you had yours done?

[pinky]

one is a new skeleton key blank. as they are for the reverse sections to our uk sections, the ends need totaly altering to fit our locks.

[Shrub]

Ah yes i see

[2hammers]

Thanks for the info Pinky

cheers

[vjbeau]

Just saw a thread on Newsparkling and want to share my experience as it just happened two weeks ago:


Ever see those tools they sell in the .99 cent stores? They look great until you use them twice then they literally fall apart. They are made that way using the cheapest materials available on our planet. I guess we should congratulate them on their unscrupulous wile and ability to rip off millions of us each year...(day?)

I ordered the model 1066 (28 piece pick kit w/ dimple, auto, laser track etc) and the model 4039 (tubular pick)

The shipping is $30 for 10 days or $45 for 2-3 days. I opted for 2-3 days.
Package opened and the huge zippered naugahyde case which reads "Shin Hyoung Hi-Tech" was open, picks falling everywhere. The zipper was broke. Actually it was attached to only one of the two zipper runs "backwards"
Trying to fix it the zipper thing broke and crumbled like a piece of pottery.

The picks: hard and very brittle, no give. I've broken 5 so far and I don't have a heavy picking hand. Nuff said bout that.

The Tubular Pick:
Very nice feel, works well "BUT" Again they manage to save a penny per year by using cheap brittle pick pins. I loosened the torque nut and started to manually loosen the little picks by gently moving up and down as is good to do with a new tubular pick. I didn't have it in my hand for 2 minutes when "snap"...one of the pick pins (the top part, upside down L) fell, broke off by my mere touch.
The decoder key (supposed to be included) was missing. I can use the pick by pusing that on broken pin manually with a pointy object and it works great so far.

The Finale:
Steven ( Mr Sparkling himself, I think) answered me apololgizing and telling me to send it back and he would take care of it. I wrote back asking if we could come to another possible way to rectify this such as sending a zippered case and the broken pin so I could fix the tub pick or maybe free shipping on anything else in the future. I asked if we could split the shipping costs as I didn't want to spend $30 to send it back and wait forever with fingers crossed.

His Response: NONE! Still waiting.

CAVEAT EMPTOR!!!