Homemade Tubular Pick

by **Ultimatederrenfan** » 29 Oct 2004 8:09

Exodus: Is there any chance you could post a few pics of what you have designed so far, the idea of a home made tubular pick is quite intrigueing,
thanks in advance
Dan

by **Exodus5000** » 29 Oct 2004 11:38

Wow, this is an OLD post of mine that got resurrected. My original design was not effective. The bigest problem I ran into was keeping the feeler picks in their correct positions. It seems one could make an effective tubular like was posted below: viewtopic.php?t=4960

by **skold** » 29 Oct 2004 20:30

that be a pcik for the bramah lock, quite similar to a tubular.

ok i am basically ready to drill the hole in the end of the tubular pick, but i need to know the size of the tube on a pick such as the southord or hpc tubular, then i can add the feelers and o-ring

so if you have a tubular pick, can you measure the tube thickness and radius

thanks

by **Cman22** » 31 Oct 2004 9:57

I am assuming you are using a bic pen as the base of your design. An ideal i had was to get a metal washer that tightly fits around the pen and use a rotary tool to make small grooves in it for the bobby pins. If the washer could hould 7 grooves it should work great. I'll try making one today and i'll post my feedback.

by **raimundo** » 9 Dec 2004 15:22

I have an excellent ace pick made to my specs on a lathe, with grooves, but I have also made good ones out of ace keys cut to the 8th depth and grooved back to a 'fimo' plastic handle (look for fimo in art supply stores) but I have always thought that it would not be necessary to cut grooves if you had the proper thin wall cylinder to mount the sliders and used the same material as the sliders between the sliders as spacers, either glueing it down, or just relying on the black o rings to hold everthing in place. in fact, a bic biro barrel, with the outside completely wrapped in bobby pins and o rings could possibly do the job in a pinch, if the pen barrel needed the extra bits anyway.

by **benzy2** » 16 Dec 2004 2:40

raimundo, can you get more of these picks made from the lathe? Ive been looking for one to mess around with. Ive always wanted to play with tubular locks but never had the money to drop on a single pick. Please PM the details on them, such as if they work and the prices you could make more for, if you would. Thanks and let me know.

by **Jimmie** » 16 Dec 2004 16:07

Raimumdo, you're right ... in Fr we can make a tubular lock out of an hexagonal barrel bic pen ... just with rubber bands and paper clips

it fits exactly an old 5 pins tubular lock named POLLUX lock

Jimmie

by **mcguyver** » 26 Dec 2005 21:18

well i have a bic stick pen, angle finish nails and 2 washers ill put up pics if it works (doubt it)

i also thought of using rachet cylinders but grinding away the hexagonal inside and using filed allen wrenches for feelers i doubt i will get to that though

by **NDEFreak** » 28 Dec 2005 6:06

If you have access to a lathe, a milling machine ( although a Silca DOGE machine will do in a pinch ) and a sound knowledge of basic fitting and machining then tubular picks are not really that hard to make.

Essentially you only really need to model it off the basic HPC pick, so if you have a tubular pick in your workshop ( I am assuming you are a locksmith, if not then you may have to do a little reverse engineering and mechanical dissection ) then take to it with some vernier calipers.

If you need pick needle / feeler material then then the lever springs for the levers in the Chubb 3G114 and 3G110 mortice locks would probably work well once slightly bent / modified to suit.

Just a thought.

There are also a few different ways to achieve the grooves for the feelers to operate in, PM me if you want help.

by **NDEFreak** » 28 Dec 2005 6:08

- "then then" - oops, sorry about that.

by **Shrub** » 28 Dec 2005 20:23

NDEFreak, where you based?

by **Shrub** » 28 Dec 2005 20:24

Not heard the lever lock lever springs idea before, good one.

by **NDEFreak** » 6 Jan 2006 4:07

Based in Sydney, down in Oz. Got lots of other ideas too, feel free to PM me.

by **NDEFreak** » 6 Jan 2006 4:22

The spring idea came about after a feeler from a tubular pick in the workshop had been lost and I was rekeying a Chubb 3G114. I noticed that the lever springs were flat and of a similar length, width and thickness to the feelers. Dont see why they could'nt be used, that is of course, after a little modification.

Try it.

by **Shrub** » 6 Jan 2006 4:55

I could pm you or you could post here for all to see :wink:

its a shame to keep the others in the dark.

Homemade Tubular Pick

yer problem was not having grooves to guide the sliders

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