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Please help a nooby with a simple tri-circle padlock

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Please help a nooby with a simple tri-circle padlock

Postby fdrt » 5 May 2006 16:38

Im experimenting with a tri-circle padlock and i am using a paperclip. I think the padlock has three, four or five tumblers, not sure which. Could somebody please go through using a paperclip to pick this sort of lock. P.S. not interested in using anything more than a paperclip.
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Postby Shrub » 5 May 2006 16:56

You have to use 2 tools, the lock will have 5 or 6 pins, paperclips are crap but if you must use them you need a bit of skill to begin with.

Have you read the mit guide and then Db's single pin picking guide? if not thats your next stop.

Then search for samschoice guide on paper clip picking.

Paper clips are rubbish though you should go for somthing better.
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Postby NKT » 5 May 2006 20:15

You need a tension wrench, regardless of how simple the lock is. You can make one from another paperclip, but it is unlikely to be strong enough to beat the spring in the Tri-circle even if you pick it.

Get yourself a small allen key, and use that.
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Postby LockNewbie21 » 6 May 2006 1:00

Well to be honest.. not trying to be a know it all beacuse everyone knows it :P but anyway just get a wiper blade insert make one bend and theres your tension wrench, and just grind, file or dremel a simple hook, its not to much trouble and will be alot more useful.

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Postby USMAN » 8 May 2006 13:08

Hi fdrt,

Can u Please Tell Us, Which Type Of Tri-Cricle You working on , Cuz there are Different Types, Some Of Them Have Security Pins, Which Is Not A Good Choice For Beginners..Make Ur Skill Of Good Level B4 Handling the Security Pins :)

Thanks
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Re: Please help a nooby with a simple tri-circle padlock

Postby digital_blue » 8 May 2006 14:11

fdrt wrote:not interested in using anything more than a paperclip.


I'd like to build a house. Can someone tell me how to do it? I'm not interested in using anything more than a spatula and an insole from my left shoe. :twisted:

Seriously now, paperclips are miserable things to learn to pick locks with. Period. Can it be done? Yeah, maybe, with patience. But you're going at it the hard way.

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Postby Shrub » 8 May 2006 14:19

Hey come on now DB i thought you had stopped hitting your staff with a spatula and feeding them old shoe insoles :P
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Postby bonez » 8 May 2006 14:22

hey could be a challenge for extreme makeover :!:

ty pennington come on down :twisted: .

:lol: :lol:
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Postby taylorgdl » 8 May 2006 15:15

Whats wrong with the right shoe ?
It's all about the tension . . .
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Postby illusion » 8 May 2006 15:29

taylorgdl wrote:Whats wrong with the right shoe ?


That is used to beat people Mafia/Yakuza/Triad style. This is of course when Db gets tired of kneecapping people. Get a guy sat in a chair, and have another chair opposite, and rest his feet on this. Get db to jump up and down on their knee-caps till they snap - simple, but effective.

You hear that n00bs? If you use lockpicking for naughty purposes, then your knee-caps belong to DB. :lol:
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Postby bonez » 8 May 2006 15:32

so the spatula is for scraping up the mess!

now it all makes sense.

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Postby taylorgdl » 8 May 2006 16:26

Scapula's and spatula's.

:lol:

Illusion, when you going to learn to spell at that Uni of yours.

:wink:

G.
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Postby illusion » 8 May 2006 16:30

I didn't make a single spelling error... :?

What the heck are you on about?
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Postby taylorgdl » 8 May 2006 16:36

Just generally. (apart from the two variations of knee-cap).

:wink:
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Postby illusion » 8 May 2006 16:44

They say, those who watch the affairs and lives of others intensely, watch their own lives fly before their eyes. Welcome to Taylorgdl airlines.
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