ABLOY locks or the likes!?

[pick_a_path]

Im new to the lockpicking game and have just picked my first few locks after doing sum major reading up on the subject. Including reading the MIT guide.
Anyway I have come across the ABLOY brand of locks. The keys for them are almost half a circle with varying angled edges coming off them.
I was wondering if anyone has a technique for picking such locks?
Is their a special pick for the job e.t.c.?

[digital_blue]

pick_a_path: Is this the lock you are referring to?

http://www.nerdulator.net/disclock.jpg

db

[pick_a_path]

No, but it has sum minor resemblances. Ill have a search around for a picture for you to have a look at.

[pick_a_path]

http://phreak.hack.pl/pliki/inne/fotki/abloy_dol.jpg
http://phreak.hack.pl/pliki/inne/fotki/abloy_gora.jpg
The silver key is the type that fits into the locks im talking about. It is slightly hard to tell but the silver key is actually a half circle/cylinder shape.

http://phreak.hack.pl/pliki/inne/fotki/ ... 00_big.jpg
This one is almost bang on da money as an example, except the ones ive seen have more angles cut into them like the silver ones above.

And here is a pdf i found floating around with a picture of the locks these keys go in. The round ones in the colour pictures bottom right hand corner of page 2.
http://www.abloy.com.au/verve/_resources/Rim_locks{78225}.pdf

I hope these directions arent to confusing,
pick_a_path.

[poisoned]

Abloy Classic.. Theres a special pick/picks(?) for those, but they can be picked with some "L" shaped wires..
more discussion in the advanced "club"

[raimundo]

Its not a club, its a cult. Ya have ta drink the coolaid!

[Mad Mick]

http://phreak.hack.pl/pliki.......

Sounds like a legal site to me..

Let's have a looksee...go to:

http://phreak.hack.pl/pliki/inne/fotki/

and have a look at some of the stuff there...(no need to understand Polish when looking at pictures)

Plenty of phone cards, card copiers, tone dialers etc.

One has to wonder about the poster's intentions...
A Google search of "Abloy" showed around 194,000 results, and none of the first ten pages (I couldn't be arsed to check the rest) had a hit on phreak.hack.pl

Surely another website could have produced an adequate image, without raising any flags like this one has. New poster too...

[stick]

Yes, it's certainly strange that somebody who seems to be a frequent visitor to a site, whose contents are questionable, has become suddenly interested in high security locks...

[omelet]

and how do you still have only 1 post recorded, but have actually made 10?

[skold]

and how do you still have only 1 post recorded, but have actually made 10?

That is a fault of lp101.

Abloy..well they are funny locks, but as ray said, you have to join the cult.

[pick_a_path]

I just want to clear sum stuff up.
I have been away for a few months, so I have come back to fix up any issues raised about my intentions.

1st) I was only interested in Abloy locks because these are the locks that my school has on all the doors and, because they have such a predominance in my everyday life, I was interested in how to get past them.

2nd)When I searched for images, I used Altavista image search. The images I posted links to were the only worthwhile pics out of my entire search.

Well enough said. Hope that changes a few oppinons about me and my intentions.
Cheers,
Pick_a_path

[digital_blue]

Well enough said. Hope that changes a few oppinons about me and my intentions.

Well, it might have except...

I was only interested in Abloy locks because these are the locks that my school has on all the doors and, because they have such a predominance in my everyday life, I was interested in how to get past them.

Now, you see, this is where you lost my vote. 'Cause you don't own the locks at your school, and in fact, they are put there for the expressed purpose of keeping you and your fellow class mates from entering when you're not supposed to. So, the moral of the story is you have absolutely no business even trying to pick those locks. In fact, doing so is illegal, and nobody here is interested in helping you do something illegal. Make sense?

I do appreciate you coming back to clear up your intentions. Now we know they were inappropriate.

Cheers!

db

[TOWCH]

He never said anything about intending to pick the locks at his school. He said their presence at his school are what got him interested in them. If I was on the other side of the pond, and I saw lever locks daily, I would be much more interested in lever locks. Which isn't to say he didn't have any intention of picking his school locks, in which case your post would be spot on, but I don't consider it worth the risk to lecture on legality on the slight possibility that the posters intentions were illegal. As of now, no one has been able to offer any evidence that they can pick abloys and one more person working on the problem is a good thing. On the slim chance he does turn out to be the one who figures out how to pick abloys and his intentions aren't legal, it's not like picking abloys is going to be even slightly helpful with any crime.

It sounds like you are looking at either classic or profile. Run a google image search to determine which. If it's a classic the main problems are: false notches, insufficent sidebar force to leave any impressioning marks. Profile has a much more restrictive keyway to put it simply, plus the problems of classic. The only way you're going to figure this lock out completely is to buy a few and take one apart. I'd go with the cam locks you see on ebay in lots of 6. They're something like $10 usually. But don't bid against me or anyone else for that matter(only talking about the lots of 6 cam locks.) They come up often enough, it's waste of everyones money to get in a bidding war when they can often be had on the first bid.

[MrB]

But he did say "these are the locks that my school has on all the doors and, ..., I was interested in how to get past them". Now, everything might be above board and innocent, but that sentence is dangerously badly worded. Nobody should be expressing interest in how to get past the security on their school doors.

[TOWCH]

What makes me less than suspicious is the "because they have such a predominance in my everyday life." I like to know how to open any lock I see regularly so I don't find the same behavior in others suspicious.