by raimundo » 16 Dec 2007 10:43
brinks shrouded is the keyway of an american brand padlock, for a long time I have simply made wider tensors from wiper inserts or walkman headbands, but after seeing someone with a paperclip in the bottom of the keyway to help poise the tensor, I made something similiar from a bobby pin (hairpin) one of the type that has a rounded surface on the outside, and it made picking an american even easier.
from now on Im gonna keep such a bobbypin in my kit. It takes up some room at the bottom of the keyway, with the rounded side toward the cylinder wall and prevents the tensor from binding at a slant angle.
Wake up and smell the Kafka!!!