I have been collecting vairious locks to start practicing on and have found an old electrical cabinet handle with a broken double sided key in it,
and I will be trying make an extractor pick. I have not found a topic on this, am I trying to get over the top of the key or hook the side of it? any help or ref to old posts would be great.
Try and go over the key and pull it back with the bitting - my Majestic extractor is a single sided arrowhead design - you could try filing down a junior hacksaw blade and use the teeth to grab the bitting.
Remember smooth side to the lock jaggy bit to the key - get in wrong and you've got a stuck extractor (not that I've done that )
make 2 really thin short hooks and use them like tweezer or chop-sticks to drag the key out, but try to get the hooks locked onto something thats on the key
When I'm working, I learnt not to put tools down (they get nicked or lost that way) so if I have a couple of picks out at the same time the unused one gets kept in my mouth.
If I want to use a pick as a toothpick I find that the angled pick from an electric pickgun is ideal (take it out of the pickgun first though)
It would take a long time to reach the level of Pinky's shiny collection. I jest you not when I say he's even got two Safeventures curtain picks, one set up for a right sided lock and one for a left!
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I'll make an effort to remember that.
