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Tips on Masterlock #1

Picked all the easy locks and want to step up your game? Further your lock picking techniques, exchange pro tips, videos, lessons, and develop your skills here.

Postby Kwikset » 15 Oct 2004 19:52

It is strange how the same locks can be very different. I have a masterlock Discus, that I have yet to pick. I've given up on it. It's completely unresponsive to everything, yet a guy on these forums, sent me a video of him raking it open in 10 seconds, with a rake that I have. It just doesn't work for me.

Strange... And frustrating..
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Postby Kodack » 15 Oct 2004 22:59

Kwikset wrote:When I first got my No.1, I was all excited to have a new lock to pick. I got home, opened the package, and practically looked at it wrong, and it popped open. I was quite dissapointed.

It seems to respond much better by single pin picking, rather than raking.


Most masterlocks are easily opened if raked, that's not the point. Like you said, it's more challenging to pick them one at a time and more importantly it teaches you that much harder picking skill for that next lock you try that can't be raked.
Michael Scott

All progress is the race between 'idiot proof' and the new and improved 'idiot'.
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