Garage Door Lock

by **ThE_MasteR** » 31 May 2005 12:16

Hey folks,

I had nothing to do today so I decided to go try to pick my garage door. So I take my pick gun (it's a Brochage, exellent quality), put it in the lock, snap it once, open. Try it again, one snap, open. I did this like 10 times, and the lock just kept opening like nothing.

Maybe I should change it lol, just wanted to know if this already happened to you.

by **sublime progie** » 31 May 2005 12:41

its only a little wafer lock

by **ThE_MasteR** » 31 May 2005 12:47

Mine has a 4-pin tumbler lock. HA, and it's even written Heavy-Duty on it.

by **quicklocks** » 31 May 2005 12:49

by **ThE_MasteR** » 31 May 2005 13:08

sublime progie wrote:its only a little wafer lock

Some use wafers for garage doors ?! I hope they leave their car outside because it's safer then in a garage with a dang wafer lock lol..

by **zeke79** » 31 May 2005 13:22

Using a snap gun on a wafer lock is just asking for trouble. The wafers will not stand up to that much abuse so you may end up with your car stuck in your garage and calling a locksmith or removing the screws from the outside of your garage door lock so you can turn it to open the door depending on how it is made. Just some food for thought.

by **sublime progie** » 31 May 2005 14:24

our garage door is electric and i think i have only seen a garage locked one time in my life. but yes the lock on my garage is wafer i am almost positive. i say almost because your questioning has made me wonder

by **ThE_MasteR** » 31 May 2005 14:49

Yeah but in this case, as you say it's electric, even though you can unlock it, I don't think you can then open the door, because the gears of the motor are jammed..I am just assuming that's what would happenbut maybe I am wrong, correct me if I am :wink:

by **jongir** » 31 May 2005 15:00

I've always found that nothing opens a garage door like mini jigglers. I can open my garage with just about any of them

by **EvoRed** » 31 May 2005 15:59

Double ball pick and garage wafer locks are open in a few seconds. Incredibly simple.

by **nhughz** » 31 May 2005 16:09

jiggler keys ,pretty much any will open garage door locks and upvc window locks.

by **Chrispy** » 31 May 2005 16:51

A lot of garage door locks are wafer locks

by **ThE_MasteR** » 31 May 2005 16:52

Jigglers might be good for some wafer locks that have 2 sets of pins (up & down), but for tumbler locks, I don't see how jigglers can work..

by **ThE_MasteR** » 31 May 2005 16:53

Chrispy wrote:A lot of garage door locks are wafer locks

Maybe depends on wherever you live..I live in Canada and lemme tell ya, there aren't that many wafer lock here on garage doors..

by **digital_blue** » 31 May 2005 20:14

Um.. ok... I'll chime in here, mostly because this is pretty related to what I do for a living (I sell residential construction, and, in particular, garages

) In most cases garages have garage door openers that negate the need for a lock of any kind. In the cases where no automatic open is used, there is a latch-lock mechanism that could include either a wafer lock or a pin tumbler depending on manufacturer and age. They do offer very little pick resistance, but mind you, you just don't see that as a method of entry in a garage break in. In almost every single case the pedestrian door is the point of entry. It is always brute force and most commonly involved the sole of a boot, a crow bar, car jack, etc. Since a slab-on-grade foundation most commonly found on a garage is not conducive to having a dead bolt, many often have simple key-in-knob locks. The best line of defence is to have it tied into a monitored house alarm system.

Cheers!

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