Have you picked an incredibly hard lock ? tell us your story

[PickTrick]

Top pins:
5 - Spool
4 - Spool
3 - Serrated
2 - Serrated
1 - Serrated

Bottom pins:
all 5 bottom pins are serrated.

I took around 15 minutes to pick this lock open. I was pretty happy, i got really drunk after. I will set it up with 5 spool driver pins and try again. I will update

[logosys]

Top pins:
5 - Spool
4 - Spool
3 - Serrated
2 - Serrated
1 - Serrated

Bottom pins:
all 5 bottom pins are serrated.

I took around 15 minutes to pick this lock open. I was pretty happy, i got really drunk after. I will set it up with 5 spool driver pins and try again. I will update

You might want to reconsider that '5 spools' thing. You see, your plug will have a little too much play, and it's almost impossible to line the thing up...

[thertel]

I looked at that and at first thought be had 15 top pins... and only 5 bottom pins, and thought "where are the rest of hte bottom pins"

Guess I misread that eh?

Thomas

[Exodus5000]

I've twice picked my primus. I havn't been able to do it in a long time though. Getting at those sidebar pins is a pain in the ass.

[quicklocks]

i had a chubb detainer the other day and took 2 hours trying to pick it then gave up and had to use the rotary pick. found out later that it was very very very un likey to have picked it with wires and the only way to relaibly do it was with a bs pick which i dont have
hindsight is a wonderfull thing

[PickTrick]

I picked it again today, i know how to pick with spool pins now playing around with this lock i built. It took me about 5 minutes or less to do it the second time. What i did was push the spool pins up into the shell then i applied tension, so they would rest on shere line, the serrated bottom pin would get caught too, but giving a little slack on the tension and kinda tapping it on the side with a pick seemed to make the bottom pin fall back down, leaving those pins picks, i just picked the rest of the serrated pins with very very mild tension. Anyway dealing with a serrated pin is much easier then a spool pin, so i just pushed the two spool pins up first. The hardest part was pushing two spool pins up at the same time, high enough to sit over the shereline. I will add a 6th pinset with a spool driver to see how that works out.

[quickpicks]

I was over at my friend's house about a month ago fooling around with an American lock interchangable core padlock. I only had my half round pick
because my trusty half diamond had broken when I accidentally sat on it. My friend told me he had it rekeyed for 1 serrated, 2 spools
And 3 mushrooms. so I thought I would give it a few scrubs with my half round and after about 30 seconds of fooling around, it opened.
I havent been able to open it since then. sometimes it's luck, sometimes
it's patience and skill. I think that was a stroke of luck.

[frollard]

I've got a something - ripoffname used by black and decker - 5 pins, all have something kooky about them - serrations, mushrooms etc...

took me about 10 hours of just trying and trying, I can get 4 stacks - that is all.

then one day I was just sitting there scrubbing away at it...."pop"...wtF?!
all that effort and it yeilded to frustration!