Newbie corner

[Shaun1987]

Being a newby I thought it might be good to collect our thoughts and experiences so far. Personally I at first found picking EXTREMELY hard even for padlocks. Now I can handle most padlocks easily and am moving onto door locks.

My main revelation was the commonly stated 'LIGHT tension'. I was applying way too much tension at first! but as soon as I got it right, I picked everything I had.

Now my 'Legge' door lock is my next target!

How is everyone else getting along?

[Squelchtone]

Now my 'Legge' door lock is my next target!

Read some more posts here and you'll find that we do not pick our own door locks. Things can go wrong and next thing you know you're either locked out of your house, or you're not able to lock up for the night.

Also, "my Legge door lock" can also mean your parent's Legge, your landlord's Legge, or your University's Legge door lock, so be mindful of who the real owner is, before tinkering with a door lock.

The best advice I can give you is to buy some practice locks, and leave the ones on your door alone, no matter how tempting they are to practice on.

Cheers,
Squelchtone

[Rickthepick]

you dont really need to 'move on' to door locks. they wont be any more difficult than padlock cores/

Im guessing you are uk as legge's dont pop up anywhere else.

get some yales and some zone rim cylinders to try next they can be a decent pick.

dont go and break your door lock

[Shaun1987]

Now my 'Legge' door lock is my next target!

Read some more posts here and you'll find that we do not pick our own door locks. Things can go wrong and next thing you know you're either locked out of your house, or you're not able to lock up for the night.

Also, "my Legge door lock" can also mean your parent's Legge, your landlord's Legge, or your University's Legge door lock, so be mindful of who the real owner is, before tinkering with a door lock.

The best advice I can give you is to buy some practice locks, and leave the ones on your door alone, no matter how tempting they are to practice on.

Cheers,
Squelchtone

I didnt mean my actual door! Its a detached door lock I found in my shed

[Shaun1987]

Just found a 'Union' padlock in my shed now! Its looking pretty tough, but doable.

[af_newbie]

Try any new Master Lock 1xx or 2xx series. They all have two or more security pins. That will keep you busy for some time. Move on to Kryptonite padlock, bilock etc.

You can practice with padlocks all the way to Abloys.

BTW, I just got Abloy PL362. That thing is a monster.
The key looks very intimidating. So many pins, angles, side bars that this thing will be extremely hard to pick even after years of picking locks every day, JMHO. This padlock looks un-pickable to me. Maybe some experts on this forum will disagree, but to me this lock is IT.

[JK_the_CJer]

af_newbie: The Abloy uses rotating discs, check out the 3d animations i made of it here:

http://theamazingking.com/locks.html

Scroll down to "Abloy Protec Animations in 3D". And yeah, they are pretty ridiculous locks.