Any other hobby lock pickers on the forum?

[Reman]

Ooh, sexist. Ladies too pure, are they?

Of course.

Naaa, they're just better at turning on the charm and talking their way back out of trouble. LOL !!

 

[mrsbruce]

Naaa, they're just better at turning on the charm and talking their way back out of trouble. LOL !!

I have heard too many JCBs digging away as chaps I knew forgot where the off switch was.

 

[Reman]

I have heard too many JCBs digging away as chaps I knew forgot where the off switch was.

I don't follow....... Was that some kind of obscure smutty metaphor?

 

[mrsbruce]

I don't follow....... Was that some kind of obscure smutty metaphor?

When you are really intent on digging yourself a hole, that you can’t stop yourself bringing in the metaphorical JCB.

Consequently, when you hear the sound of a JCB heading your way, stop digging.

 

[Arash]

I bought a set on a recommendation from reddit lock picking guys, its from a UK company. The handles are a bit sharp but I put a bit of heat shrink on them.
My 10 year opened a "security" cylinder with a rake in about 10 seconds!

I have some EVVA omnes that I haven't been able to pick at all. They have dimples and very tight keyways.

If any one wants to try picking one drop me a PM.

 

[tom2207]

I dabble a wee bit , more when I have to rather than want to , good enough to get by , but Ive a cordless too.

 

[Reman]

good enough to get by , but Ive a cordless too.

Reminds me of a story I heard from a lawer.

He was defending a builder in some kind of civil "Criminal damage" case after a private parking management firm clamped his work van. The bloke had put his van on the paved (Pedestrian) area right outside of a house he was working in. He did it so he could load it up with the huge amount of building waste that had accumulated on the site. Long story short, After an hour of constant trips to and from the van he came out to find a large angry sounding man blocking the end of the path who started interrogating him about why he'd parked there. The lawer reckons this was probably a stalling tactic to give his mate enough time to finish getting the clamp on one of the far side wheels. They gave him the paperwork and said he needed to pay right now because they've already called their tow truck and it's authorised to tow it as soon as it turns up. Apparently the builder didn't take kindly to their threats and got very vocal back at them, So they left to give him time to simmer down.

He didn't "Simmer down" though, Instead he took the petrol disc cutter out of his van, and promptly applied it to the wheel clamp, chopping the thing in half.

The lawer was apparently pretty sure he could get the judge to see that the actual clamping was illegal, plus how the clampers tone and behaviour was overtly threatening, But getting the criminal damage bit quashed was going to be more difficult.

 

[tom2207]

Reminds me of a story I heard from a lawer.

He was defending a builder in some kind of civil "Criminal damage" case after a private parking management firm clamped his work van. The bloke had put his van on the paved (Pedestrian) area right outside of a house he was working in. He did it so he could load it up with the huge amount of building waste that had accumulated on the site. Long story short, After an hour of constant trips to and from the van he came out to find a large angry sounding man blocking the end of the path who started interrogating him about why he'd parked there. The lawer reckons this was probably a stalling tactic to give his mate enough time to finish getting the clamp on one of the far side wheels. They gave him the paperwork and said he needed to pay right now because they've already called their tow truck and it's authorised to tow it as soon as it turns up. Apparently the builder didn't take kindly to their threats and got very vocal back at them, So they left to give him time to simmer down.

He didn't "Simmer down" though, Instead he took the petrol disc cutter out of his van, and promptly applied it to the wheel clamp, chopping the thing in half.

The lawer was apparently pretty sure he could get the judge to see that the actual clamping was illegal, plus how the clampers tone and behaviour was overtly threatening, But getting the criminal damage bit quashed was going to be more difficult.

There used to be a guy in london who went round on a moped cutting off illegal clamps , he dressed in gold like a caped crusader type ,, very funny but not sure how legal it was , but once in a while who cares .

 

[Reman]

You can buy a cheap (But reasonably good) set of cylinder lock impressioning tools from China for about 20 quid. Apparently these should get about 80% of UK wheel clamps off without damaging anything. Picking takes about a minute max if you've practiced a few times first to get the feel of what the tool does. The person using them doesn't even need to be a particularly competent lockpicker either....... Trouble is that if the police saw the set in your car they could use something like "Going equipped to commit a crime" as a reason to justify having a more thorough search through your stuff.

 

[RWD3M]

You can buy a cheap (But reasonably good) set of cylinder lock impressioning tools from China for about 20 quid. Apparently these should get about 80% of UK wheel clamps off without damaging anything. Picking takes about a minute max if you've practiced a few times first to get the feel of what the tool does. The person using them doesn't even need to be a particularly competent lockpicker either....... Trouble is that if the police saw the set in your car they could use something like "Going equipped to commit a crime" as a reason to justify having a more thorough search through your stuff.

So make sure you keep them in the glove box!

 

[Alan Reynolds]

Best I've seen was one of those "Puck lock" setups you see on the back of vans. It's on a shipping container workshop a customer has. He's welded the brackets to the doors, Then welded a 6x3" ring of thick walled pipe around that before cutting 2 parting lines in it so the doors could open again. He had just enough room to get the key in and turn it, There was no way to get a pick into that locks barrel, and even if you could you'd be working in a very uncomfortable position the whole time you were trying to pick the lock ! It would give the lock pretty good protection against someone trying to smash the whole thing off with a sledgehammer too. The ring was a simple addition that made his workshop many times more secure than it would have been with the lock alone.

Thieves will thieve, The best you can do is make what they want to do so difficult that they look for lower hanging fruit elsewhere.

Got the same on my container. Boxed in with rebar to prevent an attack by bolt cutters and a couple of Chubb Battleship padlocks which are impossible to cut or pick due to the lack of access.

 

[Anguz]

I hobby picked one of the locks on my workshop this morning with the battery grinder from my van
Does that count?
It didnt quite reach, i could havedone with the 9" but guess were tha was

 

[Reman]

I hobby picked one of the locks on my workshop this morning with the battery grinder from my van
Does that count?

I think you can only really say you "picked it" if the lock's still usable afterwards......... And no, usable as a paperweight doesn't count.

 

[Migmac]

i was watching Bosnian Bill open one of the keyless blue tooth locks, seconds. A few taps with a small hammer on both sides and it fell open.

 

[Nomad]

Just for info - video showing an Abus lock "melted" using Gallium I have a basic understanding of chemistry & metalurgy but had never heard of this.

 

[Seadog]

Very interesting. It's forming a room temperature eutectic alloy. I've done the same with aluminium and copper. If you heat a piece of copper sufficiently to melt the aluminium, then rub the ali across the surface, it will alloy with the copper and you'll be able to push the rod through. This is at a temperature below red heat.