I have 2 Abus 751B/40 locks. This is the model
http://www.amazon.com/75IB-40-Chrome-Pl ... 1JH9QTCCHN
I am just getting into dimple locks. I have been playing with these the last few days. I couldn't even get my southord dimple picks inside. I can get the smaller soubers past the shrouding once I cleaned them up a bit. Anyone have experience with picking these, or has anyone opened one up? Am I wrong about there being spools? It's a totally dead core. With extremely light tension I can get some pins set but it seems to take a lot of force and the pick is flexing. When I'm deep in the lock I'm not sure if I'm riding the warding and the pick is giving false counter rotation feedback. Pick getting stuck, pins locking up, jammed in between warding. I know I'll look back and think these are easy someday but right now I have no confidence picking them. What did you guys use to get past the warding? I can squeeze a medium diamond in too but don't like it as much as a dimple pick. Maybe I'm just over thinking this.
You can see this guy mess with one for a while. He was able to get the medium southord flag inside. Maybe thinned out a bit or some of the warding on the lock has worn off. So far I'm finding this to be a really tough lock for less than $20.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2IAo3zFTJM