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New to picking but have had some success

Having read the FAQ's you are still unfulfilled and seek more enlightenment, so post your general lock picking questions here.
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Do not post safe related questions in this sub forum! Post them in This Old Safe

The sub forum you are currently in is for asking Beginner Hobby Lock Picking questions only.

New to picking but have had some success

Postby draft0r » 28 Apr 2008 15:27

hey all, i recently bought a FPS-7P and my 1st attempt at picking was a $store knockoff of a masterlock went very smoothly. I recently went and acquired a few brinks padlocks, first up the Brinks weather proof ( http://www.lockpeople.com/brinks/Produc ... 20Padlocks ) couldn't figure out any ident number on it so theres a link, took me awhile of toying with it but i finally figured out how to set the pins and then it became rather simple. Brinks R70 was the next attempt and after taking what i learned from the previous lock i was able to get after a couple minutes of toying i picked the lock, then about 40-50 more times yesterday and fairly quick to( and today it seems like its taking me forever to get it or i just cant get it at all some of the times errr ).

Ok, so now i have a Brinks Shrouded Hardened Steel lock and some deadbolts/doorlocks(average home). I seem to be having no luck at all with these, spending plunty of time on. Given the things i have learned from these other locks i didn't think these would be so hard, any advice?
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Postby StabbyJoe » 28 Apr 2008 16:19

I suggest every hobby picker get a deadbolt... if semi-new to picking I'd recommend something with a wider keyway...

The reason I recommend a deadbolt is that they're quite a standard lock, and they're easy to repin (tutorials everywhere)

If you find you can't pick your deadbolt take some pins out...

A good beginners exercise is to start with one pin and work up to 5 and beyond, then security pins etc... As you have picking experience I doubt you need to go down to 1 pin, but you can start lower than 5 if need be...

The other good thing is that if you buy security pins or crack open another lock for them, you can use them to repin your deadlock and you can get some practice recognizing them in a controlled way

Good luck
Hope that helped
~Stabby
All your locks are belong to us.
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Postby draft0r » 28 Apr 2008 16:41

thanks for the reply i am going to pick up one tomorrow. Question i got a nice video of me picking the weather brinks real quick you can see the pick action of each pin just one action per pin, i was gonna upload it to you tube and i want to shout out to lockpicking101.com is that against the rules?
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Postby draft0r » 28 Apr 2008 17:25

well looks like the shoutout got censored during video processing by youtube,
so here it is :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqWUbJWLJFE
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