slozinsky wrote:I would recommend visiting a locksmith and asking for some spool pins to put into your re-pinable deadbolt cylinder. Some locksmiths may not be too keen to sell them to you however if you ask the right guy and tell him your legitimate reason for wanting them im sure they will sell them to you. I recently obtained 5 spools for about a dollar so its a pretty good way to get experience with security pins.
You could also pick up a rekeyable american lock (5200 series is what i have been playing around with lately) - they usually come loaded with several different types of security pins and since they are rekeyable you can take them apart and put them back together with as many or as few pins as you want (up to the maximum that the lock originally came with).
If you want your fix immediately you could purchase a master 140 lock - they are a 4 pin padlock that commonly have one or two spool pins. You could pick one up for about 10 bucks at a hardware store.
See now, this guy and I are one the same wave pattern here. Definitely go with a 140 for the sheer fact that they're just all around fun to play with. Then after you master the 140, if you want to up your game, any lock from the American line will introduce you to spool, serrated and spoorated pins (spools with serrations on top and bottom).
5200s are no joke, it's all about you and the lock, and it's ALWAYS about the tension. I custom pinned a 5200 with 5 spool pins as a practice lock, it kicked my tail for several weeks until I realized it wasn't the lock that was hurting me, it was my tension that was doing it. Because I pick 5200s regularly and haven't found one to date that I can't pick. That was the best lesson on tension I could have learned.
What will frustrate you even more is serrated pins because they don't break the same way a spool pin does inside the lock. Because of how they act inside the lock, they almost make you want to rip your hair out at some point sometimes. But again, feather light tension (barely finger weight resting) will normally make any pin, security or otherwise feel like a normal pin. The lighter the tension, the less of a chance you're giving the pins to utilize their security feature and just glide past to your true positive pin set.
Welcome to the forums and enjoy!
