LittlePeaceful wrote:About the dimple key models some of them can be open by foil impressioning, I don't know if they can be picked.
Of course they can. I opened two dimple DOMs so far with my Souber Tools Dimple Pickset, not the IX ones I have to admit. I haven't seen a disassembled DOM so far, that possibly would help because there seems to be something more than just the normal pins, I can get that whatever set with my tension tool (poking around in the back of the lock) but it surely would help if I knew what I'm doing

I think it's the thing that checks the ball in the keyblank...
Oh, and speaking about DOMs, I have a "historic" DOM Padlock here which is special in two ways, first it's a padlock using a standard-cylinder which can be removed from the lock, and second the "standard" cylinder inside it is a very rare concept using two rows of pins but not a dimple lock, I'd love to see the key for it but I don't have it :/
The Padlock:
Where the cylinder fits in:
I would consider this cylinder a predeccessor to the DOM IX, it also has 10 pins at the same positions, it's just not using a dimple key. Here a DOM IX and the lock from the padlock next to each other:
And finally a normal 5 Pin dimple DOM, this is one of the two I have picked so far... Possibly I'll disassemble it next time I open it if no one else has good images of the internals...
BTW: I got the padlock - who had expected it - without key and closed. I didn't manage to pick it, but I was able to open it using a hammer

Same Idea like a Pick-gun, but applied to the side of the lock and directly affecting the springs holding the lock closed, not the cylinder, I was quite surprised that it worked easily on a lock looking that impressive... But meanwhile also the cylinder had been picked a few times using a normal pickset, by picking both sides alternating...
Martin
P.S.: if you remove the "sm-" in the image names you get them in a higher resolution, in case somone cares
