Brahma locks

[nosferatu]

Hi gentlemen,
I'm having troubles opening a brahma lock (without the key of course )
I've got a master in lockpicking who taught me all about standart locks,
last week he gave me a brahma lock and told me : make your best but
don't ever come back without having opened it ... nice isn't it ?
I've already seen him opening it with chinese sticks , does
anyone have an idea on the way it can be opened ? or at least on the
way this type of lock works ?
big thanx to all guys sharing here ...

[Chrispy]

I've already seen him opening it with chinese sticks

Chinese sticks? As in chopsticks?

http://www.crypto.com/photos/misc/bramah/

[nosferatu]

yes i wanted to mean chopsticks... crazy isn't it ? i love this guy ?
so... anyone who has ever opened brahma locks with or without chopsticks ?

[nosferatu]

oups ... looks like i was wrong ... it's not a brahma lock as i thought, in fact
i know the name of this lock in french it's called a "serrure à pompe", i looked
for the translation of this term in english and all i found was brahma lock,
but the photos of your link doesn't match at all so i'm going to look again on
the web to find the correct term... as soon as i get a camera i send you the
pictures of the lock... if anyone knows a databank where i could look for my
lock ....

[raimundo]

So I assume that its a bunch of push pins around a post, with the postibility of a couple of half way round sidebars. how many pins do you count? Look for a papermate flexgrip ballpoint clicker pen, The black rubber grip has 8 evenly spaced grooves on the inside of it. these can be used to hold round wires in place. that might work, our you should collect the local pens where you live and look under the rubber grips for something that will work. You are gonna have to make your own pick, but that is the good part. Also, try to find out if the lock has sidebars? look for a website found by searching for 'serrures de haute securite" go to the monmartre/autres link and look for your lock, some of the photos of keys can be clicked on to reveal expanded drawings

[n2oah]

make your best but
don't ever come back without having opened it ... nice isn't it ?

That means you can drill/grind/thremite use/C4...right? It should be pretty easy from there.

http://protections-vol.com/

use http://babelfish.altavista.com/ to translate the page from french to english. I know they explain braham locks in there somewhere.

[nosferatu]

thx for helping guys... i've succedded opening this lock (without C4 )
as soon as i got pictures of it i'll send them here and explain you how i did
it.