Carrying on from Part 3, here’s a picture of the process to make your tensioner. As described in there, you can use a blank to make a tensioner, rather than needing a CNC machine – after all, it already fits! Even better, many locks come with a key that works! If it came with 2 […]
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A gallery of Super-Loki’s dimple pick makes Tools required: Hammer Anvil or something hard metal to beat against Pair of heavy pliers (Electrical or whatever, if they have cutters) – two pairs is better if you want to skip the anvil step Files or other grinding system Fine grit sand paper Pin vice or something
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This is a quick post about making your own locksmith cylinder repair and take it apart tools. Now, you’ll need to buy circlip pliers, or just risk stabbing yourself with a small flathead screwdriver to remove the circlip on most lock cylinders. Everything else? You can improvise. A plug follower can be made from a
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Welcome to Part 3: making your own lever lock picks The other great material for making your own picks is actually the key itself. Whether a blank or a pre-cut key – often, for high security locks, the one that came with the lock, as those blanks tend to be very hard to get –
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Welcome to Part 2, looking more at dimple locks than Part 1. Part 1 is here. The other great material for making your own picks is actually the key itself. Whether a blank or a pre-cut key – often, for high security locks, the one that came with the lock, as those blanks tend to
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If you spend a lot of time making challenge locks, repinning locks, or otherwise taking a lot of locks apart, then one of the useful tools you can look at acquiring is a pinning kit. A pinning kit is a rectangular box with different compartments which contain all of the different pins, wafers, springs, circlips,
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When I started picking locks, many years ago, there wasn’t an internet to ask questions of, and definitely no cheap Chinese website to order from. The first lock I picked was with a plastic coffee stirrer! This was after I watched someone break into a vending machine. As a child, I couldn’t really figure it
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