Broken off rake inside locked lock

[Hotroddal]

I am new to lockpicking so I was experimenting with a couple of locks that I had laying around my house, (old door locks), anyways I made my own rakes, and picks, and halfdiamond's, and I opened the lock successfully 2 times and I figured Id try it agian, anyway I broke off the rake inside the lock, How do I retrieve it?

[Wrenchman]

Hi Hotroddal, welcome to Lockpicking!

You might be able to take it out with a key extractor, it's a fish-hook like
thing, try it, otherwise post some pictures!



Wrenchman

[josh0094]

welcome!

if the lock is not mounted to anything what i did when this happend to me is turn the lock upsidedown and shake!

[raimundo]

try holding the lock so the keyway is down and rapping, if its loose in there it should fall out. IS it stuck, then tell us, thats another set of actions such as putting a thin straight edge in there without any tip that could become jammed, and lifting all the bottom pins up to the top of the keyway, this may allow the stuck rake to come out,

You may have had a weak place where the shaft of the pick was suddenly narrow, where it could only break, not bend, as there is not enough width to the narrow spot to allow some length to bend. this is a flaw. Also, picks should be well sanded to prevent jamming in the lock, and make them easier to remove. Any sharp tool cuts that show in the sanding are in fact, week places where a fracture could occure, by sanding them out, you are thinning the adjacent area so stress cannot build up on a narrow point, but is distributed across an area of equal strengh.

you should also probably tell us the make of the lock its stuck in. that may suggest something about the problem.