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Lock Picking Terms

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Lock Picking Terms

Postby stratmando » 1 Jan 2021 11:38

I understand, got a Click out of 1, Got a Click out of 2, False Set on three, 4, we got some Counter Rotation.

Seems to me Got some "Counter Rotation", really means, got some "Rotation".
And a "False Set", would mean picking to the inside of a Spool, Can someone Clarify. Thanks
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Re: Lock Picking Terms

Postby Wizer » 1 Jan 2021 14:11

The "counter rotation" is about getting out of false set and getting that spool set. The plug will actually rotate back a little (hence "counter rotation") before turning further to the picking direction.
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Re: Lock Picking Terms

Postby stratmando » 1 Jan 2021 16:32

Thanks Bud, or should I call you Mr Wizer. Though I had seen Counter Rotation with no False Set or Rotation.
Appreciate your input.
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Re: Lock Picking Terms

Postby GWiens2001 » 2 Jan 2021 1:08

If you keep pushing up a pin that is already set, it will eventually push the core back a little so the key pin can be forced above the shear line.

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Re: Lock Picking Terms

Postby stratmando » 2 Jan 2021 9:09

Just seems when LPL says he "got some Counter Rotation", it was some he was feeling, not something he was doing. I'll have to listen again.
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Re: Lock Picking Terms

Postby GWiens2001 » 2 Jan 2021 9:33

He was feeling counter rotation because he was lifting a spool pin that was in a false set.

So when he said "I'm getting some counter rotation" it was both something he was doing and something he was feeling.

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Re: Lock Picking Terms

Postby stratmando » 2 Jan 2021 10:02

Got it, when lifting out of the void, it counterotates.
Thanks all for clearing up. When I was feeling Spools as it was counter rotating, I would ease up.
Had gotten a Master 570 Padlock at a Pawnshop. Was on a bike with chain, they had no key. I said, "If I can pick the lock, can I keep the Lock. They we're glad too, they wanted the chain. 15 minutes later, still didn't get it. Since I couldn't pick, I especially wanted it. Ask if I could use one of their Circular saws with a cut off wheel. Cut chain off. Got the Lock. Looked it up, despite being a small Master lock, It supposedly has 5 Pins, 1 regular. Have picked it probably 30 times now, it also has a "Dead Core", together it makes an Interesting Pick. I want to make a key for it, it takes an M1 R, which is a Reverse of an M1.
Are the pins smaller to allow 5 pins in the same space or spread out differently? Seems like it would be a Tough one to Impression. More likely try to see Pin length, pin one is easy, rest I woul have to make little decoding feelers. Impressioning Likely for a First?
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