by digital_blue » 10 Jun 2005 0:18
It doesn't really matter whether you start at the back, front, somwhere in the middle, or under the refridgerator, you'll not likely be able to set any pin except the one that binds first. To clarify, if you have a 5 pin lock and the 5th pin is the first to bind, if you start at the 1st pin you will lift each pin and feel that it does not bind until you get to the last pin (pin 5). At that point you will notice that there is increased resistance on that pin. Once you lift it to the shear line, the plug will turn ever so slightly and the binding force will be transfered to another pin (in this example, often pin 4, but not always). You could try lifting any other pin, but it is only pin 4 that will be the binding pin.
Hopefully this makes sense. What it means is that your job is to find the one and only binding pin. You can try front to back, back to front, or whatever your heart desires, but until you find the binding pin, you're not going to have any success.
Did all that make sense?
db
