What is the hardest lock that you picked?

[Mutzy]

Abus Granit padlock model 36/55.
Small keyway, (by australian standards...) and with an anti-drill plate over the face of the keyway. Had to use a hex key ground down and a bogota hook.

Now playing with a grill/euro cylinder with mushrooms. I can pick it frequently with 1 mushroom. (3rd chamber)

[JK_the_CJer]

I'm not too sure where this falls, but I believe it to to be this:

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It's a 9 pin DOM dimple lock. I can pick it relatively consistently now, but when I first tackled it I thought it to be impossible for my skill level (isn't it a great feeling!). It features no keyway warding and the key has 10 dimples. The plug however was clearly only made for 9 normal pinstacks. If I remember correctly 3 or 4 of them are spools. I usually attack it with a wide serrated tension wrench and my Peterson half-diamond. If anyone knows this lock I'd love to find out its model/series.

Before this lock, my hardest was probably either a Schlage Everest or one of the many American cylinders. My current project is a 4 pin Medeco used for mailboxes (hooray for angular manipulation!)[/url]

[mrdan]

Brinks shrouded was the hardest that I actually got. Currently I have a couple american locks one 200 series and the other is the 747 are kicking my arse!!

[dmux]

american 5200

and abus deadbolt

[FFVison]

I have been picking for a few months now. I guess the hardest lock I picked is probably a 5 pin lock I picked up from ACE Hardware. I have NO idea what the model is. I have only picked it a few times and for the most part, I think the times I got it was out of luck and dumb persistence. I guess, if you wail away at a lock for an hour to an hour and a half without letting up, it might eventually give :-p.

Anyway, the hardest lock that I can seem to pick consistently now is my Master 532. I just got this today, so who knows how well I will be able to get it a few days down the road when my hands go cold.

On a side note, can someone PM me some links to good tutorials on this forum for raking? I have no problems with the SPP method, but raking just confounds me. I have only successfully ever raked 2 locks and both of them I SPP so quickly that it doesn't even offer any advantage to rake them vs picking them. TY

[jgor]

So far the hardest lock I've encountered and been able to pick was the Brinks shrouded 6-pin padlock. Hopefully that'll change soon though as I've been going at this Best padlock for over a week now, and I will not rest until i've picked it!