Medeco 5400 Series padlock help

[WeenMang]

Hi everyone, I'm new here and I really hope I'm posting this in a proper place, apologies all around if I am not. Anyways, I have a Medeco 5400 series indoor/outdoor padlock that's been a royal pain in my ass. I've picked Medecos before so I am familiar with the angling of pins and false gates and such but this padlock acts quite different than other Medeco locks I've picked before. First off the entire Lock is super loose in the body. It wiggles around all over the place making me wonder if I'm not getting proper turning tension? I can not seem to set more than one or two pins clockwise and I only get lucky twisting a few pins counter clockwise. On these locks do they follow typical Medeco rotation, meaning clockwise is for the shear line first and counter clockwise sets the rotation first? I apologize if I'm not making much sense, I have a fever and I'm sick in bed picking my locks so I decided today to really work on this padlock. Bottom line is all the pins feel springy even the ones I've seemed to "pick". I'm not getting any feedback or binding. Something seems wrong here. Any suggestions would help. Thanks yal. Have a great day.

[WeenMang]

BOOM edited to remove profanity!!!! Finally got it!!! I've had this Meddy for two years and I've never got it until today!!! Problem is I doubt I'll ever be able to do it again because Medeco is hard a <the f word>, even if you know what you're doing. I've got mortise Medecos my dad got from a buisness that closed years ago and I've opens those a time or two after working my way up from two pins to the full six. Anyways, I'm excited and my wife is laughing at me. How the hell do you post pics on here? I downloaded imigure or whatever and I can't figure it out. Pick on my amigos!

[GWiens2001]

BOOM edited to remove profanity!!!! Finally got it!!! I've had this Meddy for two years and I've never got it until today!!! Problem is I doubt I'll ever be able to do it again because Medeco is hard a <censored>, even if you know what you're doing. I've got mortise Medecos my dad got from a buisness that closed years ago and I've opens those a time or two after working my way up from two pins to the full six. Anyways, I'm excited and my wife is laughing at me. How the hell do you post pics on here? I downloaded imigure or whatever and I can't figure it out. Pick on my amigos!

Please, guys, can we keep it a bit clean with the language. Some members have little kids who read the posts with them.

Thank you,

Gordon - moderator

[GWiens2001]

BOOM edited to remove profanity!!!! Finally got it!!! I've had this Meddy for two years and I've never got it until today!!! Problem is I doubt I'll ever be able to do it again because Medeco is hard a <censored>, even if you know what you're doing. I've got mortise Medecos my dad got from a buisness that closed years ago and I've opens those a time or two after working my way up from two pins to the full six. Anyways, I'm excited and my wife is laughing at me. How the hell do you post pics on here? I downloaded imigure or whatever and I can't figure it out. Pick on my amigos!

Please, guys, can we keep it a bit clean with the language. Some members have little kids who read the posts with them.

Thank you.

And congrats on picking the Medeco.

Gordon - moderator

[Squelchtone]

How the hell do you post pics on here? I downloaded imigure or whatever and I can't figure it out. Pick on my amigos!

Look at the 6 big blue icons at the very top of the forum, one of them explains how to include pics. Or look to your left at the white/blue link buttons, one of them explains how to upload/attach a pic.

Also, you dont download imgur, just go on your computer to www.imgur.com and upload pics that way. If you only browse the forum on your smart phone then yeah you'd need the imgur app.

[WeenMang]

I apologize for the profanity haha! I was VERY excited to have picked that dang lock FINALLY!!! Seriously put in over a hundred hours, probably more on that Meddy, but no excuse, my apologies to anyone who may have read the B word and been offended. Thanks for the pic advice. I use my smart phone on here and I'll keep working with Imigure or how ever it's spelled. Thanks guys! Great site, great people, great advice/discussions

[GWiens2001]

Glad you got it. Sure feels good when a lock that has been giving you fits finally falls.

Gordon