Square tipped feeler pick

[jiggler]

Can anyone tell me how this pick is supposed to be used?

I've only ever used it for feeling the number of pins in a cylinder by inserting it all the way in and depressing all the pin columns as far a possible and then listening fro the clicks as I withdraw the pick. I could use a tension wrench or just a normal pick to do this so I wondered if there was any specific reason this square feeler is included in picksets?

I've had a search but didn't locte anything.

Cheers folks

[iNtago]

are you talking about a dimand pick?

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is so you car ether use like a rake(works well im locks with a Hi-Low combo) or hook( goes over pins better).

overall i don't use a dimand much but i know many who do

[jiggler]

Sorry, no I mean a square ended feeler.

On here called "feeler tip"...

http://www.hpcworld.com/Picks/p_sglpx.htm

[iNtago]

well its for what it seys to feel the lock

i use mine for feeling the springs and to use as a normal hook for locks with a simple pin combo

[Kaotik]

jiggler, is this what you are referring to?


It only shows the tip in the picture of the link you posted so I can't say for sure. Otherwise is prolly used as iNtago explained.

[jiggler]

Yeah, that's the one I mean.

It just sems a pointless addition to a pickset if it's just to feel around. I mean, why would you change to a different pick to feel around when you've got the hook in your hand?

[Kaotik]

Since this is the one, I don't think it would be used for lifting pins as it's really thin and flimsy (at least the one I have is).

I have not really used it for anything other than a shim and for decoding wheeled combo locks, like the ones on brief cases.

[Peter Martin]

Isn't that a Weiser shim pick?
If so, I don't think it's made to pick in the conventional fashion. I believe it's made to shim a lock open from the back, while you press the pins up from the keyway using a regular pick.

Or maybe I'm hallucinating again... it happens more often nowadays.

[jiggler]

It would be useful for decoding the combo locks for sure. Perhaps that's why they come in the pickset.

It just seems odd as it's sold as a feeler.

It's not really important what it's for, of course - I just wondered?? Over half the picks in my set dont get used so another unused one doesn't make much difference

[linty]

it's a weiser shim, it's not a pick

it can be used to shim some old weisers from the front i believe, but i've only ever used it for "sesamee" style decoding and once to shim a 1947 dodge lock from the front.

[Gordon Airporte]

Kind of like the perfectly flat 'curves' in the Falle set. I've always wondered about those. When/how often are the used?

[sams choice]

it is the same thickness of a normal pick. i believe it is just used to feel the picks and lift some up to the sheer line. kinda like using the opposite side of a pick. I use mine alot for my m1 trick...

[Kaotik]

it is the same thickness of a normal pick. i believe it is just used to feel the picks and lift some up to the sheer line. kinda like using the opposite side of a pick. I use mine alot for my m1 trick...

Yours must be thicker than the one I have in that pic. That one is a fraction of the thickness of a standard SO pick. I didn't check it with a micrometer but it is around a 1/4 to a 1/3 of a standards thickness. Real flimsy.

[linty]

the ones i work with are about as thick as shim stock too

[sams choice]

ah i was thinking of the one that came with my hpc set. the one that was used as an example maybe. if it is a lot thinner then probably cn be used as a wieser shim and possibly as a seseame decoder, but i think that squared tip might make it a little harder instead of the conventional design.