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 keane
Location: etobicoke
Gender: Male
 |  | Picking your first lock
< on 11/19/2003 6:09 AM >
|  | | | Today was the first day I successfully picked a lock. I did it with one of those bobby pins cut in half and used one end as a Torsion wrench. I got very frustrated after trying for 5 mins and just started scrubbing not acctually thinking i would do it and presto the only problem was that i turned the plug the wrong way so i started over again but this time scrubbing just like i did before, bingo popped open. I know everyone remebers there first time. You get this odd feeling of acomplishment when you finish. now time to go try it out in the field. I wouldn't mind hearing your story if you remeber it. also i was wondering is there any special way to pick a master key lock.
[last edit 11/19/2003 6:12 AM by keane - edited 1 times]
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Mark
     
Very Noble Donor
Location: South Carolina
Gender: Male
What is a lion, king of the savannah, when hes at the south pole?
| | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 1 on 11/19/2003 6:36 AM >
|  | | | My first time was infront of my best friends house. It took us about 5 minutes on his door. I did it twice he did it once. I also try the technique where you push up on the pin till it engages. The raking is easier. Anyways a cop that lived in the complex came up and gave us some crap. Told us we shouldnt do that we may get investigated for burglerys. I was thinking yeah Im 15 and I am a MASTER BURGLER.. dooshbag. Anyways he didnt bug us after that.
"If the threat level goes up its probably because of me." "I am looking for a girl who enjoys headbutting beltbuckles" |
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Intalex
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Ascended Being
| | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 2 on 11/19/2003 8:21 AM >
| | | | The first time I ever picked a lock was with a fork, yes a fork. It was one of those silly little luggage padlocks that you get from a cracker.
I have no idea why I decided to pick it using a fork, but I was 10 years old at the time.
Which leaves anyone the chance to insinuate that I'm 10 years old by suggesting that the first lock I picked was yesterday. Before they do so I'll assure you that this is not the case. 
"What's that smell?" "Oh that would be me, I've been swimming in raw sewage, I love it!" - Naked Gun |
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Crossfire
Location: Kay-Dub
Gender: Male
Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years.
| |  |  |  | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 3 on 11/19/2003 12:51 PM >
| | | | Posted by Twin Turbo
I have no idea why I decided to pick it using a fork, but I was 10 years old at the time.
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So that happened when? Yester... oh... I just finished reading your post. Dammit.
The first lock I picked was a small toolbox lock, which I picked with a bobby-pin. My friend's dad kept his porno mags in there, and my buddy and I wanted to get a look at them. I then proceeded to learn how to pick all the locks on my house (because I tended to forget to take a set of keys with me to school).
C.
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nightshadow
Location: Western PA
Gender: Male
Simpsons FTW. Anyhow...
| | | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 4 on 11/19/2003 7:22 PM >
| | | | I'm working on picking some padlocks right now, but pick is pretty bad (a strong paper clip). I have some trouble setting pins farther into the locks, so I'm going to make a new pick set when I find a hairpin. My torque wrench works well enough though, I hammered filed down a piece of coat hanger.
"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop."
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 5 on 11/19/2003 7:25 PM >
|  | | | You can make very good lockpicks from car dipsticks. Just go to a wrecker and buy one, you'll get a couple of picks from each dipstick. File them down and make the kinds you'll need.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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Mark
Very Noble Donor
Location: South Carolina
Gender: Male
What is a lion, king of the savannah, when hes at the south pole?
| | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 6 on 11/19/2003 8:55 PM >
| | | | Thats pretty ingenious of you. Where did you find/how did you come up with that idea? I just buy mine Im lazy.
"If the threat level goes up its probably because of me." "I am looking for a girl who enjoys headbutting beltbuckles" |
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 7 on 11/19/2003 9:02 PM >
| | | | My father has been picking locks for at least 45 years now... he's never bought a set of picks yet...
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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Intalex
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Ascended Being
| | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 8 on 11/20/2003 4:41 AM >
| | | | Hmm, oil dipsticks...
I might just try that. Any suggestions on useful shapes?
"What's that smell?" "Oh that would be me, I've been swimming in raw sewage, I love it!" - Naked Gun |
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 9 on 11/20/2003 4:51 AM >
| | | | Most people that are skilled will only end up using a couple of pics. I know the diamond shape is very useful, as well as the hooks that help to reach the back tumblers, over top of the front ones... But different lockpickers will have personal preferences that seem to work best for them...
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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Intalex
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Ascended Being
| | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 10 on 11/20/2003 5:06 AM >
| | | | The other problem is of course that the little slit you put the key in, is kinda jagged. So I guess the pick would have to be pretty darn thin to actually fit in.
"What's that smell?" "Oh that would be me, I've been swimming in raw sewage, I love it!" - Naked Gun |
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Intalex
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Ascended Being
| | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 12 on 11/20/2003 6:00 AM >
| | | | AHH NO! I'VE BEEN LINKED!
Was that one of those "nuff said" posts then?
Actually that could be considered spam because a URL is all one word. 
"What's that smell?" "Oh that would be me, I've been swimming in raw sewage, I love it!" - Naked Gun |
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Ben
Noble Donor
Location: Mojave Desert
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 13 on 11/22/2003 10:07 PM >
| | | | I did all the usual little stuff when I was a kid, picking junk locks (one or two pin). When I was 18 or so, I bought two nice little set of Majestic picks, one for me and one for the partner-in-UE-crime. We went to Walmart and bought two of the cheapest locks they had, for practice. Those were 3 or 4 pin Master padlocks.
We were hoping for some difficulty, so that they would be good for practice. However, we were both amazed that the locks could be popped in less than five seconds with really crude technique. That was my first real time. We took the locks back for a refund.
The first time I used the skill in UE was to access a Master-padlocked elevator room. It was quite a bit more difficult, due to the odd location of the lock. But it worked, and we were able to get in a virgin elevator room, and up onto the roof from there. There would have been no other way into the room.
I still have the set. It's slightly more worn now. When I eventually need more, I'll be making more from spring steel stock.
I don't think that lock picking skill should have a negative stigma in the UE community. It's just another skill that may come in handy, like rope climbing, parkour, reconnaissance, social engineering, camouflage, misdirection, or dissimulation. None are strictly necessary for UE, but combinations can give you access to places that wouldn't otherwise be possible.
Posession of lock picks is not illegal here, unless I have picks with "intent to use it in the perpetration of a burglary" (Iowa Code 713.7). If it is your jurisdiction, then you have to decide if it's worth it.
Side note: I was poking through the Iowa code, and found two interesting points: as far as I can tell, most of UE is legal here; and that putting a penny on train tracks is a simple misdemeanor.
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Rust
 
I am a rustbucket
| | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 14 on 11/22/2003 10:32 PM >
| | | | Another thing that works great for picks are the bristles that come off street cleaners.
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Basic Black
Location: Southern Ontario
Gender: Male
Jumps from perfectly good airplanes.
| | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 15 on 11/26/2003 8:12 PM >
| | | | Funny story...I bought a set of picks a few years back, but was never successful in actually bypassing a lock with them. Then, about a year ago, my sister and I found ourselves locked out of the house, after returning from school. I bypassed my first lock with a really thin allen key and a hair clip... and to top it off, I've never watched McGyver.
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keane
Location: etobicoke
Gender: Male
| | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 16 on 11/26/2003 11:26 PM >
| | | | I just made a lock pick out of one of those panels that you pull out of the back of your computer to stick in say a video card. if i had a dremel it would go much faster but im filing it down and making it a diamond pick
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Caenos
Location: Winnipeg, Mb
Gender: Male
| | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 17 on 11/30/2003 3:43 AM >
| | | | What I need is ideas on materials for making a tension wrench...
I have yet to find anything that lets me get a grip to turn the damn plug, so I find myself fumbling with a small screwdriver.
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Willow
Location: Chilliwack B.C.
Gender: Male
A light in the darkness?!?... Damnit MaxQ turn that off
| | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 18 on 11/30/2003 3:47 AM >
| | | | i always thought one of those screwdrivers for fixing glasses would work well for it, a flat head but still very small, should be easy to work with what you think?
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Frozen
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Three-D
| | | Re: Picking your first lock
<Reply # 19 on 12/1/2003 4:27 PM >
| | | | You need something with a handle that can come off to the side more so you don't get in the way of your working hand. I'm terrible at picking locks, but I think the metal clip you can pull off of some pens works well if you bend the short end out a bit.
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