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Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

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Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby thecrazy » 12 Jul 2009 21:38

Finally did it !!!! Kaba Gemini picked :oops:

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I opened four times (including this one) :lol:
^CrAzY^
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Re: Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby awol70 » 12 Jul 2009 22:12

deadly!
how did you split your pick?
"the more you pick the more you open...the more you open,the more you pick"
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Re: Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby mh » 12 Jul 2009 23:31

very nice! and good that you stopped turning :)
"The techs discovered that German locks were particularly difficult" - Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton w. Henry R. Schlesinger, Spycraft: The secret history of the CIA's spytechs from communism to Al-Qaeda (New York: Dutton, 2008), p. 210
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Re: Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby SnowyBoy » 14 Jul 2009 5:37

mh wrote:very nice! and good that you stopped turning :)


Why stopped turning? Do these lock up if there's no key in there?
What a load of old BiLocks!!!!

I'm probably 0 for 400 in looking for safes behind wall paintings
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Re: Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby datagram » 14 Jul 2009 10:52

SnowyBoy wrote:
mh wrote:very nice! and good that you stopped turning :)


Why stopped turning? Do these lock up if there's no key in there?


The pin stacks can fall into the keyway. In the Gemini there's no warding to prevent them from doing this, and no good way to remedy the situation.

Note: Alright, this is getting weird. Everytime I think about doing a Lockwiki lock-specific page someone starts a thread here about that lock...just put this up today: http://lockwiki.com/index.php/KABA_Gemini Should be completed soon, just have to add in the operation section.

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Re: Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby thecrazy » 15 Jul 2009 15:30

awol70 wrote:deadly!
how did you split your pick?

The raked pick is not done for me. He did a member of my forum

Here is the video :mrgreen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbokkuUjxSM
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Re: Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby New-York-Locksmith » 17 Jul 2009 2:59

Good video!
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Re: Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby Wizer » 17 Jul 2009 7:34

Pick is not split, only pick and shadow.
Nice job!!!
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Re: Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby thecrazy » 17 Aug 2009 21:36

^CrAzY^
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Re: Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby raimundo » 3 Dec 2009 11:14

yep thats the shadow of that hook, its not split,
and I can now see that pick that was briefly flashed on the video.

so all my questions are answered :)
Wake up and smell the Kafka!!!
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Re: Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby ElAbogado » 3 Dec 2009 15:49

thecrazy wrote:Finally did it !!!! Kaba Gemini picked :oops:

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I opened four times (including this one) :lol:


The guy in this video is interesting, his accent is between that of a Venezuelan and a Spaniard. He obviously knows his stuff, but I would be far more impressed if he picket that lock while it was mounted on a door using tension tools and not applying tension with his hand and rotating the lock for best comfort and convenience. Maybe some day I will be lucky enough to meet and talk with him.

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Re: Kaba Gemini Euro Profile Cylinder

Postby Rickthepick » 6 Dec 2009 15:37

Never picked my gemini its bloody hard going. Impressive stuff 8)
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