You may think i'm insane

[Cman22]

I know this may sound stupid, but i was wondering if it is possible to magnetically open locks. I was thinking if the pens are magnetic if you could pull them up with a magnet or somehow deflect the pins with same currents into an unlocking position. What do you think?

[Varjeal]

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. All you need is a brass magnet where you can reverse polarity quickly to get the pins bouncing.

[Chucklz]

Get yourself one of those 10 Tesla magnets (Some assembly required). Position near Lock, Turn on. Walk through doorway.

[HeadHunterCEO]

apply your theory to the latch and prehaps you will get somewhere

[Buggs41]

A flux cap is also needed. They are not easy to come by. Some days here, other days there. Keep looking. And good luck!

[thertel]

You mean an electromagnet wouldnt work?!?!?

[Romstar]

Not unless you intend to energize the magnet to the point where you are creating plasma in open air.

At this point, I think you are more likely to burn the lock out of the door than to magnetize and non-ferrous metals.

Although, I have been known to be wrong. I haven't studied a lot of really high energy physics lately.

Good luck,
Romstar

[quickpicks]

You could use a tesla ray to open a lock that uses magnets (or to rip off any ferrous metal) , but I do not reccomend playing with high voltage even if you are crazy

[silent]

Just get a flux capacitor and 2 AA's

[quickpicks]

Be careful with those. they have a tendancy to explode if overcharged or short curcited

[silent]

Not if your wearing an aluminum foil hat though.....

[quickpicks]

That couldent be more unsafe. Do you have a wet sponge underneath that hat?

[MrB]

All this talk of magnets is completely barking up the wrong tree. What you really need is a sonic screwdriver.

[Romstar]

Actually, heh....


Would you like to try the piezo-electric lock pick? It's just about ready for trials. I just have to get a few other bugs worked out.

Romstar

[logosys]

Not unless you intend to energize the magnet to the point where you are creating plasma in open air.

At this point, I think you are more likely to burn the lock out of the door than to magnetize and non-ferrous metals.

Although, I have been known to be wrong. I haven't studied a lot of really high energy physics lately.

Good luck,
Romstar

To get a standard 30 brass to madnetize significantly you would have to have a mid-sized nuclear reactor hooked up to your magnetizing device to supply enough energy.

That said, there are some locks with stainless steel drivers and brass pins (don't ask me why, it seems like a bad idea to me too). On that issue, with a significantly large magnetic charge to overcome the spring force, you could just lift the drivers into the hull, opening the lock.