I've been playing with locks on and off since MIT almost 20+ years
ago (where it was one of the school sports). Finally got a
nice collection of picks/pickgun (and more importantly tension bars)
off CL this month.
A padlock my daughter found on the street is proving
difficult. A Master 7052 with a Schlage core in it.
Any hints? I know it has a least 1 spool pin in it, which I'm
fairly new to. Don't think it has serrated. I had tried
an Abus 83/45 padlock with spool pins I had bought, and
even knowing what the bitting was, had difficulty with it.
I've gone at with the new impact pick gun (which I really don't know
how to use), a bump key, and even tried
impressioning it. I think I'm getting at least 3-4 pins. When
I ease up on tension to push a spool pin up, a couple+ pins drop,
and then I never get to the point where they're binding again
to set.
Incidentally, the new picks helped in one respect. My homemade
street sweeper picks never had much bend, and I got a lock I had
tried before that had a 2 pin in the rear. I was never reaching it,
and was instead oversetting ones in front I had already set that I
thought were binding (because they were the only ones left I thought)