Locksmith Tweezers

[2122]

I saw this a while back, but I can't find the post again. Someone recommended getting a pair of these for repinning a lock, because they could hold the pins better, and had a little thing that stuck over the top that was used to push the pin down. Does anyone know where I could buy these, or is there an easy way to make one?

[freakparade3]

If we are thinking about the same post it was recommended not to get them. They are expensive and are kind of a joke. You can get regular tweezers and use a file to round the ends to grip a pin better. It's alot cheaper.

[Chucklz]

lockpicks.com sells them

However, just recently I have been asking about them, and from members experience the "pin loading" third arm is rather wonky. The key, pardon the pun, however to these kinds of tweezers appears to be the shape of the tip. Instead of meeting like this ][ they meet () to better hold the pin.

[freakparade3]

Chucklz seems to be following me. I'm kinda scared............

[Eyes_Only]

Yeah, don't bother with that third pin loading arm tweezer. Waste of money. You can just use a regular pinning tweezer (or just any tweezer) to put the pin in the shell part way, then use your plug follower to push and bind the pin thats half way in the shell. Then just push the pin the rest of the way in with your tweezer.

[Charodei]

I've been using regular tweezers, pushing the pin in with a pick then sliding the follower over it. Not that hard, really.

[taracor]

When my lock decided to fall apart on me, I did exactly what Eyes_Only said. It was kinda scary because it was the first time I've done something like that but it worked pretty well. Not that hard at all.

[Marco]

Yeh this seems like a waste of money to me. And for what? a thin bit of metal that they have stuck on top? Just buy regular tweezers for a fraction of the price and, if you desperately need it, put the extra arm on urself, it would only take a minute. Its just like buying plug followers, why bother when there is so many household items to use instead.

[Schuyler]

Heh, not that I own a pair, but the only time I've had opportunity to use actual pin tweezers (just normal, long tweezers with an end shaped for grabbing a pin) I absolutely loved it. I usually use needle nose pliers, as I can grip the pin securely enough with those that they don't flip around keeping themselves out of the hole, but the pin tweezers simply never had that problem at all.

I don't know about this third arm malarky, but I will add at least 1 positive review for normal pin tweezers.

[NIC]

Get yourself wiper inserts and make yourself a reverse action tweezer!!
like this.+ it doesn't cost you anything!!

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s189 ... ture-1.jpg

[poky13]

Hy nick that was real cool. I bent a pair of twizzers, but that looks like it works better. I'm going to make one thanks

[linty]

i have a few pairs of tweezers, one came with a course i took, and one is the lab one that they sell on lockpickshop.com.

i would recommend proper locksmith tweezers to anybody who does locksmithing for a living, as they really do help a bit, but i went for a long time with regular tweezers without any real problems.

[2122]

Thanks for the advice. I'm gonna have to try the reverse action tweezers now. I tried adding the extra arm by bending a paperclip onto the tweezers, it worked ok, but its a pain when it in the lock cause it takes up so much room. Fileing a groove into each end of the tweezer helped alot though now the pins don't slip around.