Farmerfreaks lockpicking videos

[FarmerFreak]

Defeating three Keymark cylinders.

[femurat]

Now you use your groovegrabber to pick?

Good job

[FarmerFreak]

no, no, it isn't my groovegrabber . But it was, and still is, my wafer free-er upper tool .

Think of a wafer that has a square hole the key goes through. The key only contacts one side, and only pushes the wafer in one direction, and the spring pushes the wafer back. But if the wafer gets bent/corroded or doesn't move back under regular spring tension for whatever reason. Then you can use this tool to go in and push the wafer back it's original resting place, using the side of the wafer the key never makes contact with. Doing this a couple of times will usually get the lock to at least turn once more with a key.

[FarmerFreak]

I was going to key up an American padlock with six pins...Because it is funner that way. But all the driver pins in our American keying kit at work are these funky pins. I'm not sure how long they have been in our kit, and nobody else seems to know either. I'm guessing that they are some kind of anti-bump pin. Though I haven't tested that theory.

Well I decided to put three of them in this lock with two spooled and one serrated pin. It was very challenging at first, probably because it is different and I wasn't used to them. After I had picked it several times throughout the day I decided to pick it on camera. I managed to pick it way faster than any other time I've tried to pick it, and it was on camera. No complaints there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSXtk8RJXZY

[ToolyMcgee]

Barrel pins. I don't know what their intended specific purpose is, but since they are unusual I always have a hard time with them. Don't really see them on anything but older americans, and I know the new masters have a shallow 1 that is barely noticable Supposedly a bumpstop pin. Nice job picking that sucker!

[FarmerFreak]

Don't really see them on anything but older americans

The pin kit is really old. And since I never paid any attention to them before. It's a good possibility that they are really old pins.

I think American cough*Master*cough should start using them again. If they added these into the mix of spooled and serrated drivers. These locks would be significantly harder to pick. The barrel pins always partially drop back down after setting a spooled pin...it was really annoying the first time I tried to pick it. It seems so simple to pick past them, and it is I suppose, but it plays mind games with you.

[femurat]

Wow, super fast picking! Well done

In the new dom ix ht you can find some barrel pins. They're difficult to pick, and mixed with that spooled and with that crazy drivers are almost impossible. I'm still fighting with them.

Cheers

[FarmerFreak]

I've finally gotten proficient enough to pick a lock with one hand on camera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvpILCIt76U

Sorry for the shaky picture, I was holding the camera with my left hand.
This lock is keyed to six pins, serrated and spooled, no barrel pins.