after setting a pin: heavy tension: good or bad habit?

[pillar]

On some locks with spring tension I get bad feedback.
Sometimes I feel no pin is springy I press a little harder onto the pins. Then suddenly I realize ... Its already open.

Is it a valid habit to:
set a pin and get feedback (little deeper fault set), then apply heavy tension (to see if I already got it open) without touching a pin, then release tension to before and try next pin.
Is this a good habit to implement or a bad one?

[cheerIO]

I do this, especially on locks with tonnes of spring tension like Master 911s and many Americans.

So I say, yes good habit.

Also, practicing varying tension incrementally and going back to where you were, will come in handy if you overset a pin and need to back off just enough to drop one pin down without dropping all the others.

[pillar]

Ok, thanks
I will try to implement that.


Just a question: Is it possible that a lock binds up (and is not pickable anymore without starting again) by applying high tension and release? (just tension pin manipulation)
Are there pins where exactly that happenes?

[GWiens2001]

Depends on how much tension you consider to be high tension, but yes. Especially if what you consider 'high tension' is essentially trying to make one pin into two pins at the shear line.

Gordon