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Picking locks you rely on?

Having read the FAQ's you are still unfulfilled and seek more enlightenment, so post your general lock picking questions here.
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Picking locks you rely on?

Postby Marco321 » 5 Apr 2007 7:44

Hey
A bit of a noob question but, I was wondering why people say not to pick locks they rely on. Is it that picking them can break them? or is it some other reason.
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Postby UWSDWF » 5 Apr 2007 8:39

yep you can break them
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DISCLAIMER:repeating anything written in the above post may result in dismemberment,arrest,drug and/or alcohol use,scars,injury,death, and midget obsession.
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Postby Shrub » 5 Apr 2007 9:12

There are many issues but yes as said basically you can break them,

More importantly you can wear them out or even cause an intermittant problem that doesnt show up when you leave it but may fail in x number of hours, days or months and cause issues there,

The best example i use to hit it home is that youve played with your mates lock (glad i spelt that right :P ) and leave it working to the best of your knowledge (an inexperianced picker will not see signs of a lock not working correctly if its a small issue for example a stiff key may be ignored by a noob but not a pro), imagine then that your mate is a sleep one night and is woken by a blazing fire in his appartment, he struggles through the flames and smoke to get to the door but cant open it,

When the fire team are picking up your charred mate to put him in the bag they cant understand why he just stood at the door but didnt get out, its on your concience because it was you messing with the lock that caused the lock to fail when it was most needed causeing your mates death,

Harsh i know but maybe it shows how bad the consequenses could get just because you didnt want to spend a few dollars on a practice cylinder,
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unsanded picks

Postby raimundo » 5 Apr 2007 11:00

Unsanded picks will file away parts of the warding and roughen up the pins sometimes so badly as to affect the lock, also, you could stick a pick clear through the plug and break it off, fouling the linkages that drawback the bolt.
On a masterkeyed door, (apartment, dormitory) you could turn 180 degrees and drop a master pin into part of the keyway that would normally be filled by the back of the key. this could make the individual key or the master no longer fit. Once you are aware of all the potential problems, there are ways to avoid them, such as holding a pick in the lock as you pass the 180 degree mark, (some locks will let the pins enter the bottom of the keyway, on other locks, its just a bit too narrow, but master wafers, are sometimes so thin that they could _ sideways in the keyway even if the top pins cant get into it.
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Postby Schuyler » 5 Apr 2007 11:17

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look at the date

Postby raimundo » 5 Apr 2007 12:07

look at the date on that post, and then look at the thing on the right where it tells when schuyler joined, that could be his first post :lol:
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Postby jgencinc » 5 Apr 2007 15:04

on the 3rd page he says that it was his first post.
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Postby Deathadder » 5 Apr 2007 17:20

wow, Schuyler joined after i did??? lol, hes got like 3 times as many posts though.
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Postby Schuyler » 5 Apr 2007 20:18

Yeah, I'm a bit chatty :oops:

And yeah, thanks to you lot I eventually fixed the door. Very exciting introduction to the hobby / community :P
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Postby Marco321 » 5 Apr 2007 20:36

OH ok i see. thanks all lol, my parents would of been so angry if i locked everyone out the house because of a broken lock lol
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