Picking a very expensive French lock

[serpih]

I had picked this lock long time ago, but this time someone have asked a movie (in France), so I'm sharing with you too

a similar key



The movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7HcqPb4hdU


To make 360° this lock must be piked 4 times in the movie i have picked once.

[serpih]

I was waiting for a few questions from the members of this forum

everybody is shy around here,

i will give some details any way

A locksmith takes more the 500 dollars to change this cylinder

This lock works like a wafer lock, but wafers have been modified to difficult picking attempts.

In fact this lock could be picked easily, but when the lock is closed she must be picked 12 times to be opened, so you must be patient to pick this lock, a burglar will [Edit]
"To make 360° this lock must be picked 4 times"

a+

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[Jaakko]

A locksmith takes more the 500 dollars to change this cylinder

I think I would get a hooker for three night with that money and still have plenty left to call a locksmith to change a lock.

This means you are being ripped off.

[raimundo]

The reason I didn't ask any questions is because I had no experience with this lock. So I had no basis for forming any questions. That does not mean I am not impressed. Very good work. Don't hesitate to bring in more locks that most of us have never encountered, Thats how we learn.

[mh]

Fichet somehow manages to get ridiculous prices for their locks...

Very nice work!
Why would a plug spinner not work, so that you wouldn't need to pick it 4 times?

Also, do you have an idea how I could buy a Fichet F3D lock (I live in Germany)?

Cheers,
mh

[serpih]

I have tried to use a plug spinner, in fact some times it works but not to make 360 maybe 180, when the cylinder is in the lock the mechanism will resist and plug spinner isn't strong enough to make a five points lock open, and if you build a plug spinner stronger you risk to damage your cylinder.

For the Fichet 3D for the moment in Paris only locksmith Fichet have access to this cylinder, maybe you will find someone who works there who sells you one, to give you one idea here in Paris a locksmith Fichet not expensive will take about 680 Euros to change a 3D, is better to you wait some time, one year at less, you must let some time to people lost the new 3D and ask for a new one, this cylinder will be good, quite new, with 2 or 3 keys and not that expensive.