Five pins, four spools :-(

[RangerF150]

I have an ISEO euro lock , i have only been able to pick it once or twice.
Now i know why , i drilled one side and found off the five pins four of them where spool pins .

Is that not a bit OTT ?
Or is it a pretty normall configuration.

Thanks

[quicklocks]

[RangerF150]

I'll swap ya

I guess they just had an over stock off spool pins that day !

[toomush2drink]

I gained an iseo cylinder from a job yesterday and as yet i havent got it, but it does seem to have a few spools in it. It sets quite easily on the spools its just working out the order to set each spool that is the challenge at the moment.

[RangerF150]

Yeah , i have gone round in circles with it , set a pin then set another first pin drops , etc etc

Has me gone nuts !

[chunk]

I have one with all serrated pins... Horrible keyway too. I've opened one side but haven't been able to open the other... yet.

[Stinger]

Well - I it makes you feel better I went out yesterday and got the cheapest locks I could get (like a furniture lock) and was the most used brand here in Denmark, and like 70-80% of all locks are this brand - so I get it and open it to discover that all 5 pins ( 5 pins in the cheapest lock) were spools! It's like that in every lock here in Denmark - EVERY single pin is a spool - it's so hard to pick..

[RangerF150]

Yup Stinger , that makes me feel better

[another aussie]

lol yeah I felt a little better after reading that too

[NDEFreak]

I know this isn't an impressioning forum but impression it open, I open my CISA profiles that way, they are also Italian like ISEO ( im pretty sure anyways ) and both use lots of spool and serrated pins, I know for sure that CISA have a single channel machined around the "shear-line" end of some of there bottom pins aswell.

Im new to the forum but have been a locksmith for a while, hope my first post complied with the rules!!

:D

[RangerF150]

Actually since then , i have had some success with that lock...

I really did'nt know what was up with it , i never saw a spool pin, so when i figured what was goin on , i kinda was able to open it OK...

Also i made a pick that is a little easier to use than anything i bought so far , it don't look pretty , but works

Now i know about spool pins i think that they are pretty easy to open,to my untrained mind they actually give away a lot of *information* on what is goin on in the lock.

Im happy

Thanks all for your help