First Pick A Success?

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i was trained on kwikset on a house that my boss picked about a million times and after you pick them over so much it gets extremely harder. sometimes i cant even pick them! lol Schlage is easier then these kwiksets most of the time other then the lever sets. Ive been picking for over a year and half now and love the skill but as they all say you cant grandmaster this skill. Ive picked over primus's with a cut down primus to the side bar.

Has anyone ever tried to pick a primus like that? pretty interesting..

Hi there!i just had my first schlage primus this morning and i have no idea why i cant manage to open a 6 standard pins lock!it makes me mad!my primus is same as yours with finger pins zero cut,but something unusual happen here,i tried to start from the sidebar pins but nothing,so i moved to the key pin and nothing,no binding at all!what i feel its just a mix between crunchy and springy but not even 1 click,but if i try to overset all the key pin togheter and then i release the tension i hear the pins falling down so that mean they're binding but for some reason i dont hear them or feel them on spp or raking,its just like if im picking pins with super springs without a tension wrench,this is the feeling,i had only 1 exception that unfortunately im unable to reply,1 single click on pin 6 which unlocked the fingerpins and they start to bind,until i ve been able to pick the sidebar but when i came back on the key pin i get stuck again,any idea of whats goin on?im open to any suggestion!thanks

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any help??

[femurat]

any help??

You could remove 3 or 4 pin stacks and see if you can pick it this way. Then add one stack at a time until you can pick a fully pinned lock.

Cheers

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hi,thanks for your help,it is exactly what i did until remove 5 pins to 6!!i almost believed to be an idiot!then something happened!for some reason my schlage bind first the finger pins either clockwise and anti clockwise,so i started to pick the finger pins but here is the problem!once the sidebar its picked open the core turns so much that makes impossible (to me at least) to pick the key pins of course because they have no place where to go and if i try to release the tension to allow them to be free then the sidebar come in place before that i have the chance to do something!and i dont think this is normal!at least with all the video i saw so far on schlage primus picking!

[GWiens2001]

hi,thanks for your help,it is exactly what i did until remove 5 pins to 6!!i almost believed to be an idiot!then something happened!for some reason my schlage bind first the finger pins either clockwise and anti clockwise,so i started to pick the finger pins but here is the problem!once the sidebar its picked open the core turns so much that makes impossible (to me at least) to pick the key pins of course because they have no place where to go and if i try to release the tension to allow them to be free then the sidebar come in place before that i have the chance to do something!and i dont think this is normal!at least with all the video i saw so far on schlage primus picking!

A good fitting tension wrench will allow you better control on releasing tension on the top pins without the sidebar dropping. It takes practice.

Gordon

[Dyonzi]

First one was a cheap kwikset I bought, took a couple hours...

[Blacknight401]

Bought my 1st padlock today , still waiting on tools , so thought I would try to make my own . I only had a paper clip so I bent it ( trial & error ) to see if it would work , first try was about 45 minutes, did it 4 more times in less than a minute ... I'm hooked , oh it was a knock off master lock that I bought at dollar General for 3.50 cheap but fun to open ...

[ausGeoff]

As a newbie, I practised on the "standard" acrylic padlock until I could pop it every time I tried.

My first genuine pick took me less than 30 seconds, and I couldn't really believe it! It was an
ABUS 84/40, which I bought as a so-called practise lock—thinking it'd take me a lot of time to
pick. It popped open with a city rake, so since then I've been practising with different picks in
that same lock.

Being a relatively tiny keyway, I've had the most SPP success with a small half-diamond—rather than
a shallow hook, which seems to jam somewhere. I've found a short snake rake to work well with
this lock as well, but more with rocking rather than straight raking.