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A Home made electric pick

Tool recommendations, information on your favorite automatic and/or mechanical lockpicking devices for those with less skills, or looking to make their own.

A Home made electric pick

Postby Houdini Locksmiths » 14 Jun 2004 12:29

I had a day off today, so after reading afew threads on making your own electric pick I thought I'd give it ago.

First off, I'm using a Braun electric shaver (cordless).

As you can see from the picture this is the inside of the shaver:-

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The white plastic piece at the bottom of the picture is the moving part on the shaver, this is what the razor blade attatches too (this creates the vibration)


The next picture is the inside of the shaver, you can see that I've pushed a screw through the white plastic piece (this will act as my vibration needle)

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For the vibration needle I ground down a 2 inch screw on my grinder, leaving a small amount of thread, so it can be screwed into the plastic.

On the last picture, I've assembled the electric pick and covered it in plastic tape making sure I left cut-outs for the on/off button and also the charging hole.

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I also made another one out of an electric tooth brush although I found it didn't have enough power, however it still opened afew locks.

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All in all they were quite easy to make it took me about half an hour.

Hope you like them

Harry
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those are cool

Postby frollard » 14 Jun 2004 13:41

nicely done! I'm thinking a dollar-store pair of electric scissors. (the one with 1 fixed blade, and the top one vibrates). Not sure if it'd have enough kick, but never hurt to try - only a dollar after all.
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Postby technik » 15 Jun 2004 5:01

REALLY REALLY wanna see this but none of the pics worked
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Postby PickPick » 15 Jun 2004 11:03

Have you opened anything with these yet?
It's not the tools that open the lock. It's me.
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Postby Houdini Locksmiths » 15 Jun 2004 11:42

I've only tried it out afew times but so far I've managed to open :-

1xABUS 65/30 padlock
2X Ross house locks, both have spools which I've added
1x Tri-circle padlock

They all opened within 60 seconds. I've wondered for awhile what the difference would be between a manual and electric pick and I must say I prefer the manual pick, but saying that you can't beat picking a lock. On that point I picked the Tri-circle padlock quicker, than when I used both manual and the electric pick.

Harry :D
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Postby bushd » 21 Jun 2004 11:04

Nicely done, hrm, too many ideas at once to complete.
Rawr.
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Postby skold » 21 Jun 2004 19:46

i'm thinking of making an electric pick with a mate (Hojo) an i has wondering if something like a cordless bread knife or a cordless jigsaw would be alright.

My idea is that it will rake the pins fast and will have the lock open in half the time. i have no idea if it will work but thats why i am asking you guys.
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Postby 007 » 14 Jul 2004 11:11

Very Nice
What do u use for a pick
Love The Knowledge and chance of a new career.
Pick Pick You Hear The Click!
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awesome

Postby hacktoad » 14 Jul 2004 18:39

simply awesome, nice work.
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Are they worth it

Postby judoshooting » 15 Jul 2004 18:32

Thats cool, makes me wonder if the price of electric picks is really worth it.
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Postby Gaian » 14 Oct 2004 7:34

I'm thinking a dollar-store pair of electric scissors. (the one with 1 fixed blade, and the top one vibrates). Not sure if it'd have enough kick, but never hurt to try - only a dollar after all.


While surfing around the web the other day, I saw one of those. It was only a picture, so it was hard to make out how they managed to use a pick on it. Should have at least saved the pic because I have no idea where it was.

From what I read about these scissors is that they don't really cut like regular scissors, they cut at the pivot point of the blade, thereby giving it more power to cut denim and such.

I was actually looking online last night trying to find some cheap ones, didn't even think of the dollar store. I have 2 of 'em in town here, going to have to go later on today. :D
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Postby ne0nerdz » 12 Dec 2004 14:36

man i need to migrate to america and check out these "dollar shops"
we do have pond express were everythings a pound....maybe i could find some useful stuff there
thats unpossible!!
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