What did you pick today?

[spandexwarrior]

A couple of American 1100 series locks.



-Brian

[GWiens2001]

A couple of American 1100 series locks.



-Brian

Now that is just showing off!

Great job, Brian!

Gordon

[Divinorum]

A couple of American 1100 series locks.



-Brian

Out of curiosity, what are the green and yellow stickers on the locks for? Did you use them to mark specific ones?

[spandexwarrior]

Yep, those are the 6-pin 1166's and I added a green/yellow/red sticker to them based on how difficult I thought they were to pick. I give a lot of locks to friends or take them to cons/locksport meetings so that can be helpful sometimes. Some of my pics might show a dab of purple nail polish which I use to mark my locks so they hopefully end up back with me at some point.

-Brian

[mechanical_nightmare]

Dude, that's a LOT of padlocks! Good job with the picking.

Last night I picked at the Dexter KIK cylinder Gordon sent me:



For some reason it was difficult to get the tension right.

[fgarci03]

@spandexwarrior: What a great job you did there! How about that crunshin'?
Amazing, dude!

@mechanical_nightmare: I have one of those Dexters too! Prety cool locks!

[Divinorum]

Picked this American lock today, Evil thing . It has a riveted core so I cant tell exactly what's inside. I can visibly see serrated key pins through the key way. Judging from the amount of crunching and force it took, I'd say there has to be deep spools inside. Thankfully I had my Sparrows Monstrum picks at hand and they performed beautifully. In the picture you see a normal hook closest to the lock and the other two are monstrum hooks. The hook closest to the case came in handy the most due to the angle at the end. It's perfect for setting those deep spools at the back.

[fgarci03]

Nice picking!

Probably has a mix of serrated and spoorated (serrated spools) in there! Crunchy!! Yummy

[easy-e]

Specialized Tubular Bicycle Lock from a guy at work with no keys.

Open - round one



Gordon

Finally caught up with this thread. Hadn't read anything since May.

Gordon: Is that a homebrew tensioner? How thick is it?

[Onz]

Did another cheap lock I found walking home while the car is getting maintenance. Also I did my very first lock dismantle which was hard to get apart but good to see inside of the lock then just photos, 4pin but a 3 pin lock no security

[GWiens2001]

Specialized Tubular Bicycle Lock from a guy at work with no keys.

Open - round one



Gordon

Finally caught up with this thread. Hadn't read anything since May.

Gordon: Is that a homebrew tensioner? How thick is it?

As thick as a hacksaw blade.

***grabs tension wrench and micrometer***

.026", or .67mm for those of the metric persuasion.

Gordon

[easy-e]

Finally caught up with this thread. Hadn't read anything since May.

Gordon: Is that a homebrew tensioner? How thick is it?

As thick as a hacksaw blade.

***grabs tension wrench and micrometer***

.026", or .67mm for those of the metric persuasion.

Gordon

Perfect. Thank you!

I get that the longer leg goes in the slot where the post in the center of the key goes. Does the shorter pointy leg go against one of the pins on the opposite side when applying torque?

[GWiens2001]

No, it rests against the center post for leverage. The shorter leg is also tapered with the side closest to the other leg being longer. This helps it fit into narrow gaps.

Gordon

[phrygianradar]

No, it rests against the center post for leverage. The shorter leg is also tapered with the side closest to the other leg being longer. This helps it fit into narrow gaps.

Gordon

I have been grappling with how to make a good tensioner for the tubular locks for a while. I will have to give your design a go. Getting a piece to fit the slot isn't too difficult, but having that tapered piece for leverage is tough. Everything I have tried has either broken or not tensioned correctly; like only tensioning half the lock because it wasn't distributing the tension evenly. Looks like it works well enough! Better than any of my junk...

[YouLuckyFox]

I've thought of taking a tubular blank and filing down all pin spacings or filing the pin position open entirely, this would give controlled torsion and allow easy access to the pins. Any thoughts on this method?