Whats wrong with my bump key?

[thededer]

Can someone please tell me whats wrong with my bump key? I can get it to work on my garbage deadbolt thats missing one pin but I cant seem to get it to unlock my bedroom door... Thanks hopefully someone can help me to resolve this problem.

[unlisted]

It was not properly cut, from the images.

Try taking some more photos, and put the camera into "macro" mode. (normally a little flower icon)

[thededer]

yeah im sorry about the camera quality i had to take the pictures quickly so i used my laptop webcam ill post some better ones later with my digital camera.

[jwhou]

Looks like the valley of the first notch (closest to the tip) is not deep enough, look at the real keys of the locks you are bumping, are the cuts of your bump key deeper than the ones on the key for the lock that you can't bump? Do the triangles all line up with the notches of the real key at the same time?

Let us know how to contact your parents and we'll tell them how to re-pin the driver pins to defeat lock bumping. Most locks are easily bumped simply because there's very little profit for locksmiths to do clever pinning whereas there is profit is selling a better lock.

[yono]

Can someone please tell me whats wrong with my bump key? I can get it to work on my garbage deadbolt thats missing one pin but I cant seem to get it to unlock my bedroom door... Thanks hopefully someone can help me to resolve this problem.

you are displaying a five pins key, and it opens the garbage deadbolt with one missing pin. was it the last one? it cant open your bedroom lock..can you please check your bedroom door keys? was it five pins or six pins type? regards.

[geardog32]

did you take a little off the tip of the key and a little off the shoulder of the key?

[thededer]

i have 2 keys one i took the little bit off the other i didnt and ive found out that there isnt anything wrong with my bump key its just that i was trying to bump a lock filled with security pins

[Squelchtone]

i have 2 keys one i took the little bit off the other i didnt and ive found out that there isnt anything wrong with my bump key its just that i was trying to bump a lock filled with security pins

You can bump a lock with security pins just fine. If anything, bumping takes time to learn it isn't a magical key that you insert and the lock opens. Work on your timing and work on how much tension you apply and how you hold the key when you apply it.

Also, stop bumping the locks on your house.. I'm sure your parents wouldn't want you doing that. Go get some practice locks and mount them in piece of 2x4.

Squelchtone

[Scott_93]

As great as bumping is, it suddenly stops getting fun pretty quickly when you open and relise that's it

A much better investment would be a set of basic picks, plus they'll last forever if you use them right and work on ALOT more locks

Or you could turn your hand to impressioning like me

Scott.

[nostromo]

OK, I'm curious. Why does your bedroom door have a lock on it? Is it to keep someone or something IN . . .


... or OUT?


That question aside, you probably want to avoid using bump keys on a lock in active use. I teach keyless entry to law enforcement, with a hands-on key bumping practice, and can tell you that bumping is very damaging to locks. I'm sure the damage is less after you get the hang of it and are gentler, and require fewer 'strikes' to open - but until then there's a lot of pounding.

After three sessions of 20 minutes practice each time, about a fourth of the mounted cylinders need pins and springs replaced. Usually one or two are damaged beyond reasonable use. Pins whose length is the same or less than the diameter tend to rotate and get 'stuck'.

Like Scott93 said, get picks. And even then don't work a lock in use unless you want to be dealing with repairs or a service call.

[thededer]

i do have picks i was jsut trying to learn to bump better