problem with my homemade tension wrench.

[KingColliwog]

I'm sorry because this might be some "over asked stupid question that every newbie keep asking over and over again" but well... didn't find the answer I was looking for anywhere... so here I go!

Well I made some lockpicks out of bobby pins and they seem to work quite well I would say... But I'm having some real problem with tension wrench! I made on with a paper clip and it kept bending and wasn't really able to apply any tension... So I made one with a bobby pin and well it wasn't bending as much but it slipped in the lock without applying any tension most of the time... So I finnaly glued two bobby pins together... Now it's not bending I can apply some tension but... Only when turning one way... When I try to apply some tension the other way it spins freely inside the lock and well... gives me the same problem as it did before...

I thought about adding another bobby pin to make it thicker so it would fit better in the key hole... Anyway I guess there's some easier way... So do you have any idea to fix my tension wrench problem? I wont buy any "professional" tool for the moment and I dont have acces to a lot of materials...

feel free to give me ideas even if their not the best thing I could do... It really cant be worst than my "strange looking 2 bobby pin glued together tension wrench"

(sorry if my english isn't that good)

[begginerlockpicker]

NO YOU DID NOT SEARCH !!!!!!!!! THERE IS AT LEAST 20 TOPICS ON TENSION WRENCHES!!!!!!!!!!LAZY NOOB

[KingColliwog]

Calm down please, I did... Just didn't find the answer I was looking for as I said in the previous post... I ask about a something easy to make... I've almost only seen things about allen key (I have no tool to make some tension wrench out of this)

anyway, sorry if I pissed you off... Really wasn't what I was looking for... Anyway could you please try not to yell at me for no reason? Just tell me to search more because there's plenty of subject on that matter or just dont answer at all... Answering the way you did is just useless...

but may be it's just me

[silent]

You need to find a material a bit bigger. Windsheild wiper blades, streetsweeper bristles, hoembrew adjustable tensioners made of brickstrap (falle's) could all be a better material bobby pins are just a tad too small. Bobby pins are great though for some cheaper freakishly small locks. You want something you can get some feedback from. If you have a bench grinder or a dremel get an allen key and grind it down.

Hope this helped some,
silent

[Romstar]

The reason why the bobboy pins slip in one direction is because of their width. They are thick enough, but as you discovered, when you turn in a certain direction, they aren't wide enough to grip the keyway.

Silent is correct. Find a wider material such as the metal spline in a windshiled wiper blade. If all else failes, you can shape and size it with files and sand paper rather than a grinder or a dremel tool.

Keep reading the forums. Sometimes things don't come up in a search because of spelling, or you are looking for the wrong word.

There is a lot here to read, just keep at it.

Romstar

[KingColliwog]

thanks for the answer... I dont have anything to make a tension wrench out of an allen key... I think I'll go for windshield wiper blades sinde I really dont think I'll be able to find any streetsweeper brestles for a long time (snow snow snow everywhere) and I have absolutely no idea what a "homebrew adjustable tensioner made of brickstrap" is lol... Googled it and still have no idea what it is hehe... My english is far from perfect so... (by the way when typing "brick strap" on google the first link refer to this site)

anyway thanks once again =o)

[KingColliwog]

Oh and thanks especially for explaining why the bobby pins wasn't working! will help me to make some other tension wrench... Although I feel bad for not figuring this out all by myself haha... thanks once again!

[Romstar]

No problem.

Welcome to the English language, where the same word can mean five different things. It's great for poetry, but terrible for describing something.

Romstar

[KingColliwog]

haha... Yeah I'm not that bad either (well I hope/think so) but I dont have that much occasions to speak english so I can't get really good at it...

[INMANATOR]

im sure your english is much better than my french (assuming your french canadian) ive had years of practice and still cant spell

[KingColliwog]

Well french is said to be one really hard language to learn... It's all messed up with useless rules and 1000000 different words to say the exact same thing... It's a nice language when you know it but I guess it must be a pain to learn it...

But continue to practice, it's just like lockpicking! the more time you spend practising the better you'll get hehehe

[Donny]

Hey KingColliwog, im from quebec too, send me an email hgdav@hotmail.com or add me to your msn contacts, and maybe ill be able to help you with some of your problems. And i could also send you the video about making picks made by PYRO1234321, here on the forum, i had to search quite some time to figure out a link that worked to download it.

Sa fais plaisir de voir un autt quebecois dans les parages en tk!

David

[KingColliwog]

haha yeah I watched that video but I was almost sure I had no grinder... But well in fact I think I have one!! So I'll go buy some hawksaw blade sooner or later... Although I dont have any propane torch so I might not be able to make tension wrench out of those... Would a stove work? (well dont know if I'm taling about the right thing... Well the circle shaped things on top of an electric oven you use to cook food...) or would it get too much of the blade hot resulting in a easy to break wrench? Thanks in advance

Ok je vais t'ajouter à ma liste hehe... Mais bon va me falloir du nouveau stock avant d'avoir vraiment des conseils... parce que avec ce que j'ai il me faudrait pas mal plus de skill pour réussir à débarrer une vrai serrure haha