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Investing in a plug spinner

Tool recommendations, information on your favorite automatic and/or mechanical lockpicking devices for those with less skills, or looking to make their own.

Re: Investing in a plug spinner

Postby Devhad » 18 Mar 2016 17:43

I've been using an A1 but today a coworker let me try his flip-it tool and I think I might be investing in one. It's bigger and doesn't fit as well in my pick case but it worked much smoother than my A1.
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Re: Investing in a plug spinner

Postby billdeserthills » 18 Mar 2016 18:28

Devhad wrote:I've been using an A1 but today a coworker let me try his flip-it tool and I think I might be investing in one. It's bigger and doesn't fit as well in my pick case but it worked much smoother than my A1.



I like the HPC Flip It too, been using one of mine for almost 20 years
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Re: Investing in a plug spinner

Postby jimu57 » 19 Mar 2016 12:12

Either Peterson's or make one.
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Re: Investing in a plug spinner

Postby tpark » 19 Mar 2016 15:19

thelockpickkid wrote:My personal recomendation is the A-1 Spinnakur, it is the best I have used, I traded off an hpc because I prefered the A-1 over it, and I am an HPC fan, the A-1 was just better.


Yep - this spinner is a good one. It worked well on the locks I used it on.
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Re: Investing in a plug spinner

Postby mh » 20 Mar 2016 0:19

Cheap Chinese have been mentioned before, not sure if this one has been mentioned, though, as the links don't work anymore - http://m.banggood.com/GOSO-Straight-Sha ... 15436.html - I like it a lot for the price.
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Re: Investing in a plug spinner

Postby Slayer85 » 10 Jun 2016 9:22

HPC flip is great.

Remember the first time I saw a plug spinner, makes things so much easier.
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Re: Investing in a plug spinner

Postby jimu57 » 19 Apr 2017 18:18

Just buy any spinner. They all work.
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Re: Investing in a plug spinner

Postby billdeserthills » 19 Apr 2017 18:51

jimu57 wrote:Just buy any spinner. They all work.



After buying and returning the Rytan plug spinner I find the HPC plug spinner is good
I see that for less money a gun-looking plug spinner is available from china
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