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Make an electric pick from Black and Decker Power Scissors

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

Make an electric pick from Black and Decker Power Scissors

Postby paulvalente » 11 Mar 2008 17:28

Ok, here goes with my first guide:

I am going to show you how to easily make an electric pick gun using readily available parts and tools! :twisted:

You will need:

A Black and Decker rechargable Power Scissor (Available from Ebay for about $15

Material to make a pick from (I used bandsaw blade but hacksaw blade or anything else will work equally well)

2 3mm bolts 10mm long (With nuts and washers)

A grinder, either bench or Dremel style

A drill and a 3.5mm drill bit

Ok, when you first get your Black and Decker Scissor it will look like this:

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Remove the scissor head by depressing the two buttons on the side and pulling away from the scissor. It should come away easily.

Take the scissor head apart, you will need a small phillips head screwdriver to do this.

The pieces inside will look like this:

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Take the bottom half of the scissor. This piece:

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Using your grinder, make it look more like this:

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Now go to work on the moving jaw of the scissors, you will need to cut a slot in it, this will not be very easy as the material is VERY hard indeed, I would probably have liked to drill holes, but it would have made it harder to marry up the pick blade. It should look like this when you're done:

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Now you need to make the pick, this can be made from any material as I stated earlier on. I used bandsaw blade and it polished up lovely. You should be able to make an accurate copy of my pick using this picture:

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Now assemble your pick onto the moving blade of the scissors using your two 10mm long 3mm bolts, washers and nuts, like this:

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And here's a view from the other side:

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Now begin the re-assembly of the cutting head, the first part to go on is the cut down stationary blade, it is essential as it acts asa spacer for the moving blade, it fits back into the cutting head like this:

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Now refit the moving blade with the pick attached, it goes in like this:

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The cutting head may now be re-assembled using the two screws, make sure you get the spring back into place correctly on the pin. It will look like this when re-assembled:

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And that's it, your very own Black and Decker Power Scissor electric lock pick, hope you like it!

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Cheers

Paul :D
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Postby Grifter » 11 Mar 2008 22:46

Nice guide with nice pics, but how does it work?
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Postby paulvalente » 12 Mar 2008 2:45

Basically, you insert your tension wrench as normal, apply some tension, then insert the picking needle so that it's in contact with all the pins turn the thing on for a second or two.

If all goes according to plan then it should bounce the pins upwards and the tension your applying should encourage them to stay there, once all the pins are set the lock opens.

Basically this is really close (IMO) to a commercial pick gun.

Hope this helps.

Paul :D
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Postby keysman » 12 Mar 2008 2:54

Nice work!
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Postby Grifter » 12 Mar 2008 9:46

Pretty cool, I'll have to try that out.
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Postby esl_cherokee » 17 Mar 2008 16:49

I made one of these saturday and do have to say that it works perfect.
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Postby Safety0ff » 17 Mar 2008 17:01

Great job!
It looks like it would be quite durable compared to some of the other diy pick guns, since you`re only modifying the tip assembly. I`ll have to keep an eye out for sales on similar products to make one myself.
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Postby paulvalente » 17 Mar 2008 19:01

Hey Guys,

Glad you're enjoying the guide, and glad that your one worked well Cherokee.

I think that my next modification to this may be to install a variable resistor to make it possible to adjust the frequency of the vibration!

Does that sound like a worthwhile modification to you guys?

Cheers :D

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Postby Safety0ff » 17 Mar 2008 19:04

paulvalente wrote:Does that sound like a worthwhile modification to you guys?
If it ain't broke, fix until it is! :lol:
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Postby WeedIsMyCheat » 20 Mar 2008 12:48

just got my Black and Decker Power Scissor !!
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Postby WeedIsMyCheat » 24 Mar 2008 10:23

I made one and it works GREAT!
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Postby Kayvon » 4 Apr 2008 14:46

Lowe's has these on sale for $5 right now (at most locations). See this link for details:

http://slickdeals.net/?permadeal=12114# ... deal_12114

A week ago, I though this was a cool idea. But for $5, I picked up a set of scissors to try it out myself.
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Postby paulvalente » 13 Apr 2008 3:38

So Kayvon, have you made your pick gun yet? Did it work?

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Postby Kayvon » 13 Apr 2008 19:52

paulvalente wrote:So Kayvon, have you made your pick gun yet? Did it work?

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I've started on it. I had a heck of a time getting the front piece off. I ended up drilling out one of the screws after I stripped it. I think the spring inside was causing some of my problems.

Didn't get to work on it this weekend because I got called in to work. I'm also short the screws I will need to mount it, but I'll post something when I'm done.

That said, I don't have high expectations. I have a manual pick gun that I've been disappointed with, but it'll be fun to try.
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Postby MacGnG1 » 4 Jun 2008 22:37

dude thats cool. how much are these scissor things?
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