What did you pick today?

[phrygianradar]

Good one, PR.

Gordon

Thanks guys, I had to add a picture of my smiling selfie that I took to show my wife why I was coming home a bit late. Totally worth it! I was in the zone... or just couldn't stop...one of those two.

[teamstarlet]

perhaps some of you guys saw it. No keys, but I got it to the control position and pulled out the core. It wasn't too easy although I have to say that if you have the special tension wrenches for these sfic locks you really must use shims to have them work well. I used pieces of post-it notes rolled up. That is what those pieces of garbage things are doing in the shot. Really clean lock, too. I am pretty stoked on it for 15 bucks.

That's actually a really good idea... Thanks I was having issues with getting mine to grab the right holes but never pursued it. I'll have to try this.

[Divinorum]

Getting to work on a few Sargent and Russwin mortise cylinders I recently acquired

[phrygianradar]

perhaps some of you guys saw it. No keys, but I got it to the control position and pulled out the core. It wasn't too easy although I have to say that if you have the special tension wrenches for these sfic locks you really must use shims to have them work well. I used pieces of post-it notes rolled up. That is what those pieces of garbage things are doing in the shot. Really clean lock, too. I am pretty stoked on it for 15 bucks.

That's actually a really good idea... Thanks I was having issues with getting mine to grab the right holes but never pursued it. I'll have to try this.

Seriously, if you shim them in properly it will be like a night and day difference. Sometimes I also (while the lock is in a vice) pull the wrench towards the front of the keyway while also aplying tension. This will only work if the teeth are in the bottom holes nicely, but I feel like it gives the lug an extra little something. Make sure to spray something in to get things loosened up; I use screwloose and then just jiggle the keyway with a prybar and rake the pins until I feel like some of the "juice" has gotten inbetween the sleeves of the core. In many cases it has been a very long time since that control lug has been turned and can be really bound up and seized in there. The goal is to not use an excessive amount of tension while still being able to grab that control lug sleeve.

Hope that gives you a little more help. I have picked a lot of these locks now (not that I am an expert ) and those are a few little tricks that I have used to get the lock to the control position. Having said all of that, some are just impossibly difficult. I have even made charts of how many "clicks" I have tried on each pin stack to try and get the control. I had a core that I thought was broken because I worked on it for about 4 months and never got it to the control. No matter what I tried it would just spin the plug. Finally, I drilled it out to see what the heck was going on in there and after knocking the pins out to decode it I realized why it was so easy to pick to anything but control. I thought I took a picture because it was so funny, but I can't seem to find it. There were sooooo many master pins in there it was laughable! The only difficult thing about this lock was trying to pick it to the control position. There were litterally dozens and dozens of combonations that would opperate the lock! I need to check for that picture. I was saving the pins in my Lab decoder, but my daughter picked it up to check it out and they went all over the place... If she werent my little girl I would've gone Three Stooges on her! It was still funny though. "Why I oughta..."

[atmtech3078]

I dont know if you would call it an actual pick, although I do pick at one point, but I drilled, pulled the nose then picked open a Mosler 5700 SD lock. I do alot of those, along with many other SD locks. Again, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post, but you did ask what I picked today.
Thanks,
atmtech3078

[C-Horse]

Master Lock #3
Craftsman / ABUS 90/50

Working on a few more by the hands are done for tonight....Happy Picking guys!

[Robotnik]

Picked and gutted another old-style American 5200 today. Still haven't unpacked and gutted the one from my previous post, but this one arrived a couple days ago. A fun pick; all serrated key pins, a serrated driver pin in the first position, three serrated spools in the 2, 3 and 4 positions and a serrated pin in the final position.

[KPick]

according to your post number Robotnikit seems like your ready know how to lock pick

[daniel22747]

I picked one of my ACE II locks with a hair pin and a tiny hex/allen wrench!

[C-Horse]

I picked one of my ACE II locks with a hair pin and a tiny hex/allen wrench!

Got to love it man. You can use the best tools in the world and get nowhere and use stuff laying around and pick anything lol

[Robotnik]

according to your post number Robotnikit seems like your ready know how to lock pick

Definitely picked more locks than I have written posts . Always have more to learn, though.

[Hachronn]

When I arrived at the shop (Automotive) this morning, I already had three customers waiting for me. I reached into my pocket... No keys! I reached into my shirt pocket... Bogotas pinned to my iPhone wallet. I picked the shop door (Adams Rite/SC keyway), and the three wafer locks on my tool boxes. All in all a fun way to start my day.

[C-Horse]

GOT ONE !!!!



So happy I pick this thing

[mseifert]

GOT ONE !!!!



So happy I pick this thing

that is a rough one to pick .. Nice Work !!

[C-Horse]

GOT ONE !!!!



So happy I pick this thing

that is a rough one to pick .. Nice Work !!

Thanks man !