Master Side Combo #630 Luggage Lock (Success of the day)

[discsport]

Hi All,

I am new to recreational lock picking, but have had some good success thanks in part to posts from this forum. Everyone at work thinks I'm nuts and thinks I'm probably on a govt watch list after visiting all of these sights. Despite that, they bring me locks to try to crack daily.

I had success with a new lock today and wanted to pass on what I found. I didn't see anything else on this lock - forgive me if this is redundant to anyone.

Today a girl at work brought me a Master side combination luggage lock #630. It's brass with 3 dials running down the side.

http://www.masterlock.com/images/color_img/630d.jpg

I tried to shim it with one of my trusty PBR shim - No success. It destroyed the shim (they had been "Money" up until that point).

I then thought, if I were her what combo would I use. I put in her birthday (day and month) and it opened...but I felt like I cheated!

She reset the combo and I tried again.

1. This time I held the lock in one hand and pushed the bar (the part that opens and closes) into the body of the lock as hard as I could.

2. Maintaining the pressure, I then gently turned the dials one at a time until I encountered resistance. And there was a significant resistance for each dial, but you can only really feel it when you push the bar into the body of the lock with a lot of force!

3. After setting the third dial I pulled up and the lock opened.

She reset it and I did it again. I even showed a doubtful co-worker how to do it successfully.

[Shrub]

There was a thread on this very lock not so long ago whereby the OP decoded it with a seasamee decoder so maybe learn that and have a go at that,

Ill see if i can find the thread for you,

[Eyes_Only]

I pull on the shackle rather than pushing down on it to bind the combo wheels, I get better feed back that way. These locks are extremely easy to open and not much of a challenge but the most rewarding thing about being able to open these things is the look on the face of the person who challenged you with it after you cracked it.

[baseeight]

the other day i want down to my basment to look for random locks, the only one i could find was a very old, rusted combanation lock. I dont know how old the lock was but my dad says he got it from his dad's house when he died (and it was old at the time). This was before he went to collage and he just grabbed it because it was a cool old lock.
The moral of the story is, i thought about how to pick it. i thought about it and thought about the binding action of the rotating cuffs. i dicided i could open it by pulling out the loop part and feeling for the binding cuff and rotating it a number untill the cuff stopped binding. I was only able to get one cuff like this but managed to get the other two cuffs by holding them apart and using a flashlight to see between them and looking for the gap where it lets the loop slide open.
None the less it is an interesting thing that the first method i tried was an actual method for opening a simalar lock. here are some pictures of the lock. I apologise for the camra phone photos...

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9864/spa0056rm0.jpg

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/9153/spa0057yb6.jpg

[udanis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri_c4_Sel6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2GBIz8H6F0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLTOBvP1B3k

---Alex