Picked my first lock!!!!

by **Mith** » 18 Mar 2005 17:07

Man, and did it feel good. It was a little three pin lock on a little 20 dollar safe my sister, err, "let me borrow." Did it with the hook pin, the one that curves up. I love my little jacknife now. Took maybe 4 minutes, with trial and error, trying to find the right tension. Can't wait to get more into this...

by **maty68** » 18 Mar 2005 19:14

Go for it Mith!....I too started on a little lock just like yours. I picked it with a paper clip and used a screwdriver for tension. They are notoriously easy to pick locks as they have disc tumblers. Get yourself a 5 pin tumbler padlock or cylinder door lock and work from there. Remember to look for each binding pin and work on it. With a little patience you will be cracking these locks also then you'll feel the POWER!!
Just yesterday with some help from this forum i cracked a particularly stubborn lock which had been bugging me for quite a while. Now i have more POWERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! :shock:

by **master in training** » 18 Mar 2005 19:27

well done guys! keep up the good work! im working on some cheap awful door cylinder i bought a while ago when i get a free minute. no joy yet, but its really poorley machined. i'll keep working at it though!

by **maty68** » 18 Mar 2005 19:45

it could just be that you are having trouble adjusting to the pins and keyway of a different lock, you could try taking out a few pins so that it only has 2 pins left and pick it like that so that you can get used to
Hehehe...just kiddin :lol:

by **master in training** » 18 Mar 2005 19:51

lol, would you be quoting me there? :wink:

its a euro cylinder, so i took one side apart and left the other side intact, so one can be repinned however i want it and the other side still works with the key and is perfectly alright, so i know it works mainly :wink:

i can pick it with a couple of pins in, but i broke my tool for getting the pins in and im all out of paperclips to make another so im stuck with a bag of bits and 1/2 a working lock to pick at the moment.

some of the pins and the inside of the lock, as well as bits of the key, they're just so badly made. its unbelieveable the lock opens at all.

by **maty68** » 18 Mar 2005 20:00

I've never worked on a Euro cylinder, its those figure 8 shaped locks i think (to be honest i never knew they existed until i joined this forum) but after a search on yahoo i think i'll make it my next project as i gather they're now quite popular in the UK. I hope you crack it, wish i could help, but until i get 1 theres not much i can do.

by **master in training** » 19 Mar 2005 7:38

yeah, its ok, i know how to do it all its just getting round to actually putting it back together and picking it. i've been seriously busy this last week, but im on holiday for the next 2 weeks so i'll give it a go

the lock just has 2 seperate plugs in it so that when its in a door you can unlock it from the inside and outside and vice-versa.

i havent taken a picture of it yet and its a real pain getting pictures from my phone to my pc, but if you go to google and search for euro cylinder you should find something on the image search, you may even find some pictures on here if you look for them :lol:

im not sure what you mean about figure of 8 shaped locks though

by **maty68** » 19 Mar 2005 20:45

I was confusing a euro cylinder lock with an interchangeable core(IC). The ICs have the figure 8 shape. The confusion was caused by the fact that i had never encountered a Euro cylinder, and for some misguided reason i assumed they were like ICs. That was until about 3 hours ago when i was round my mums house and picked the new lock on her new door, while taking note of the shape of the lock(an enlarged keyhole shape). I then came back home and done a search on yahoo for Euro cylinders, and low and behold the shape of the lock i had just picked was exactly that of the picture on yahoo. I had just picked my first Euro cylinder!!. The best thing about it all is, it was the easiest lock i have ever picked.----I can feel it again---here it comes.....even more POWERRRRRR!!!! :shock:

by **master in training** » 19 Mar 2005 20:59

well done! i cant pick mine with 5 pins in it, the tight key-way is making things difficult though, im going to have to make myself a couple of slim line type picks or buy some. the fact that it is so cheap and low quality is making it hard too.

by **maty68** » 19 Mar 2005 21:11

I thought you were working with slimlines. You defenitely need slimlines, anything bigger will jam in the keyway( if at all you could even insert them). Slimlines were invented for keyways such as these. I was working with slimlines and still had some difficulty with the resticted keyway.

by **master in training** » 19 Mar 2005 21:26

yeah, i know, ibought my set in america and the ones i've made havent been great so far, i need some real tools but cant afford any

im just going to have to buy slim lines i think when i've saved up enough money.

i know all about slimlines, i was just trying with my picks because it was my only option.

Picked my first lock!!!!

Picked my first lock!!!!

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