Smaller locks

[kostassk8]

you must create smaller pick and smaller tensions just use a grinder to grind the tension and to create a pick

[UWSDWF]

thats not even a sentence

[lockpicker69]

you can use small dental probes like these

http://www.maplin.co.uk/search.aspx?Men ... y&doy=27m9

[MacGyver101]

In the past, I've resorted to bending hairpins in order to make small tension wrenches for this type of lock. (Depending on the hairpin, though, your mileage may vary... the last ones my wife picked up were mostly plastic and completely useless for this sort of thing.)

[lockpicker69]

note the term (resorted to)
hair grips can and will brake/snap and maybe jam things up in the lock.
i am not trying to be smart but if you look around the site everybody will say the same.the best way really is small lock=small picks,small tension tools.make some proper ones yourself and dont resort to please.

[MacGyver101]

note the term (resorted to)

You're absolutely right, and the wording was intentional. It would not be a good choice of material for a regular-use tool.

hair grips can and will brake/snap and maybe jam things up in the lock.

I would never advocate making picks out of them... but for the small bit of a tension wrench that you put into the keyway, the risk of a makeshift wrench breaking and "jam[ming] things up in the lock" is fairly remote... certainly no more so than finding a broken street-sweeper bristle on the street and bending a tension wrench out of it.

[lockpicker69]

lol like that reply

yes it is a remote chance of the tension tool getting in the workings