Paperclip picking

[CurlyCurls]

I was wondering if som1 could tell me how to pick a lock with paper clips. Not an advanced lock...a standard one.

[Anero]

same way you would pick it with normal picks

paper clips are not very good picks tho, you are better off reading the how to guides in the lock picks - manual forum and making some out of hacksaw blades wiper insterts ect.

so a little reading and use your search-fu

[pauly003]

Paperclips will work....just not well. they are much to soft and flexible. I started with bobby pins and they are a little better.....but not much. Get a real pick a.s.a.p. Although picking with a paperclip will make you appreciate a real pick that much more..

good luck

[bonez]

sams choice did a paperclip thread a while back
it was quite informative as i remember!!

[drunk.with.love]

Yeah, paper clips are too flimsy. Hmm but I tried a safety pin with a bobby pin once and that worked pretty well. Basically, I just bent them into the shape of a pick and torque... idk what else to tell you though. It's the tool that's different but picking should be the same.

[Krypos]

well, they all covered it fairly well here. i used a hairpin as my first pick, and i bent it into a hook on one side and a half diamond on the other (as in a one sided pick, one side a pick, the other a handle.)

and that worked well for about a month, and then as soon as i started to develop any real skill, i needed real picks, so i bought some.

heres a photo. kinda big, but i dont have the time atm to resize. also, as always, welcome, and try making your own picks from hacksaw blades, windshield wipers, etc, search around, there is a large wealth of knowledge here that can help you make your own very formidable tools.

[Nick_Coffey]

Hi everyone, I'm kinda new to this site!

But I was wondering if a metal hanger would work better than a paperclip... Could someone find a site that offers info regarding how to do so with a paperclip/metal hangar?

Thanks everyone!

Nick

[Firearm]

Ok, but while I'm doing that for you could you find me a site that gives away free money and has beautiful women in genie costumes delivering it to me personally while calling me Master? Thanks, I'll be right back with that site for you...

[xayandevorak]

try finding a metal file and filing a hacksaw blade down..make sure you get carbon-steel blades though, they're much more durable.

a rat-tail file should work fine, or even a triangle file.

xayan

[serpentballz]

heh just tried that.. not easy using a file, especially without a clamp lol.. grinding the whole blade down could take days

[Sl0th]

heh just tried that.. not easy using a file, especially without a clamp lol.. grinding the whole blade down could take days

Good luck with that

[quickpicks]

I accidentally used a Bi-metal blade once and lets just sat even a rake didnt last long.

[njhowen]

i did my first pickings yesterday, 3, 4, 5 and 6 pin (with mushroom) all easily possible with paperclips.. cant wait to get real picks, each time i can unlock, just a massive variety in times, 5 pin in minimum of 10 seconds ish, maybe less, but sometimes up to 10 mins of fiddling. Hoping real picks will iron out the inconsistancy as paperclips bend a hell of a lot and the end twists round and misses the holes all the time without noticing.
If it helps I just used a large paperclip, stripped off about an inch and half of plastic covering, and using a pair of nail clippers bent the end down a little and then upwards to create a hook that doesnt take up much space in the cyclinder. Tweezers from a penkife bent at 90deg served as tension tool.

[wallshadow113]

yea paperclips are wayyy to flimsy and bend out of shape when trying to push the pins up. Bobby pins are great to use...and a pen clip for a tension wrench...the down side to bobby pins is that you cant bend it into a S rake .

[RodVT]

Paper clips are perfectly adequate for really crummy wafer locks like you find on a variety of plastic cases (computer disk lockers). After that we (my son and I) graduated to real picks.....