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When it comes down to it there is nothing better than manual tools for your Lock pick Set, whether they be retail, homebrew, macgyver style. DIY'ers look here.

Postby Shrub » 29 Sep 2006 9:37

None of those are close,
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Postby zeke79 » 29 Sep 2006 9:47

Ohhhhhhhhh, steel wiper inserts will wreck a cutting wheel :? :( . Sorry to hijack the thread.........
For the best book out there on high security locks and their operation, take a look at amazon.com for High-Security Mechanical Locks An Encyclopedic Reference. Written by our very own site member Greyman! A true 5 Star read!!
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Postby Shrub » 29 Sep 2006 9:51

Zeke, out of anyone i expect you to know what the mystery items are as well :wink:
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Postby zeke79 » 29 Sep 2006 9:58

I was too lazy to take pictures of my grinder after I ate dinner last night :lol: .
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Postby The_Yeti » 29 Sep 2006 10:46

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they look very similar to this :D


and my grinder

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Postby Aqua » 29 Sep 2006 11:05

THIS is the pic of my grinder.

I think the discs are car wheel spacers as my friend had some once. I believe they may be to allow alloy wheels to seat properly on the hub or space the wheel out a bit.
So, who got it right? Do i win??

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Postby Romstar » 29 Sep 2006 13:48

Folks, I do believe we have a winner.

I am currently debating if its Yeti or Aqua.

Yeti found a match, but didn't say what they were, and Aqua hit the nail right on the head.

They are in fact wheel or rim spacers. The set I took the picture of have been hanging on that wall for at least 15 years.

Aqua, PM me your mailing information. Yeti, convince me you knew what they were and I will send you a set as well.

Good work and excellent effort everyone.
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Postby Schuyler » 29 Sep 2006 14:54

Romstar wrote:
They are in fact wheel or rim spacers. The set I took the picture of have been hanging on that wall for at least 15 years.



:shock:

I wuz robbed! You don't think the warrior wheel had wheel spacers? He was a WHEEL from SPACE.

GEEZ!

:lol:
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Postby Shrub » 29 Sep 2006 18:02

Well done Aqua and if convinced Yeti as well,
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Postby Romstar » 29 Sep 2006 20:25

Yeti has me convinced. He sent me the web site where he got the picture from, and its all about wheel spacers, so I think he knew what it was and just forgot to say.

Aqua gets his with no doubt at all, and I should have them out in the mail in a few days, but no later than next Friday.

These picks are part of a new run, and I want to be sure they are up to snuff before they go out.

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Postby Wrenchman » 30 Sep 2006 20:38

Wrenchman wrote:Is it rim wheels?

:D

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Turns out that I was pretty close, not knowing what I was talking about :P

Or as we say "So close, yet so far off"

Congrats to Aqua,(and Yeti, as I´ve just read Romstars post) tell us how they work, and post some pic. of them, when they arrive........So we can copy them :idea:

:D

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Postby Romstar » 30 Sep 2006 22:17

Oh, the templates for the king and queen are on here somewhere. However, as a few people have discovered they are not perfectly to scale.

You ahve to know a little bit about depth and spacing to make the templates the proper size for the real picks.

If you try to copy the templates exactly, you get two picks that are completely out of whack.

You can make them though. Just find them and have fun.

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