Vintage Best padlock picked to control! Finally

[OrMeanGene]

Ive been messing with a vintage best lock that i shared a while back in a box of freebies with no key. Was able to pick it just fine, but was giving me hell to get control. Finally though... I cut the chain off the side of lock, to keep from ruining my beautiful palms, then sat down and went to work. Took heavy tension with just a standard tension wrench(not IC wrench), peterson gem, and 25mins. Went from back of lock to front, and she folded. Threw in a falcon core with keys. Yay works now.

[femurat]

Well done. It feels great, doesn't it?

I see some brass filings around the keyhole. It shows it was a hard battle

Cheers

[GWiens2001]

Nice job. Now you can have the original core decoded and/or repinned. Then you can have the original core in the lock.

Gordon

[OrMeanGene]

Lol it was beat pretty well ahead of time in my defense.. ya, sure. Ahead of time.

Good idea to decode. I wasnt even thinking about it. Threw in that bright new clean core. That and i dont know how to decode, never tried

[billdeserthills]

Nice job. Now you can have the original core decoded and/or repinned. Then you can have the original core in the lock.

Gordon

Then again, since the chain has been cut off and the original value took a hit,
not much point in keeping it original any longer

[jeffmoss26]

if you send me the core, I would be happy to decode it and make keys.

[OrMeanGene]

if you send me the core, I would be happy to decode it and make keys.

That would be awesome. Ill pm

[Eazy123]

Ive been messing with a vintage best lock that i shared a while back in a box of freebies with no key. Was able to pick it just fine, but was giving me hell to get control. Finally though... I cut the chain off the side of lock, to keep from ruining my beautiful palms, then sat down and went to work. Took heavy tension with just a standard tension wrench(not IC wrench), peterson gem, and 25mins. Went from back of lock to front, and she folded. Threw in a falcon core with keys. Yay works now.

Heavy tension? I thought these responded better to light tension?

[GWiens2001]

Each lock is different, especially as they age.

Gordon

[Mudman]

Congrats! I'm still learning to normal pick mines. Only have the core though, makes holding it a pain.

[Eazy123]

Each lock is different, especially as they age.

Gordon

I guess my confusion lies with trying to understand where heavy tension would be necessary…would that mostly be for a corroded plug that's difficult to turn? I'd imagine setting pins would take quite a bit of upward force that way as well.

[OrMeanGene]

Each lock is different, especially as they age.

Gordon

I guess my confusion lies with trying to understand where heavy tension would be necessary…would that mostly be for a corroded plug that's difficult to turn? I'd imagine setting pins would take quite a bit of upward force that way as well.

It was older lock, but not too bad inside. Just seemed to work for me in this situation. May have went different for someone else. Heavy tension was only way that seemed to get me to control. Jeff moss has the lock now, maybe he has other results