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Making Pin & Cam picks part 1
Introduction
The very first thing I should say is - if a commercially made pin & cam pick is available for the lock you wish to defeat & you value your time / sanity - buy it ! However if no tool is available and the lock is technically difficult or beyond your skill to defeat with a conventional 2 in 1 & you have access to workshop tools and lots of time then it is worth considering making your own.
MORTICE LOCK PICK REVIEW
MORTICE PICKS REVIEW. Mark asked me to have a play with his range of mortice lock/curtain picks to see what I thought of them, despite me telling him that I haven’t done much mortice lock opening for a long while. I pick plenty of safe locks open during my normal day to day work & in my early days used to do a lot of repossessions for estate agents & gas board warrant work although without a lot of the fancy gear that is readily available to locksmiths nowadays, so thought it would be interesting to try my hand so to speak....
Picks on a Shoestring - By Chris Belcher (pt 2)
Continuing with Chris Belcher's article on Making Your Own Picks. Remember, you can print these articles out by clicking on the Print Article link on the left....Picks on a Shoestring - By Chris Belcher (pt 1)
Our thanks go to Chris for this excellent article on making your own picks, which is ideal as picks aren't cheap nowadays and this article should be helpfull to many who are starting to think about increasing their range of picks....
Impressioning Cylinder Keys
This weeks article is written by Mark Francis Lambley of Francis Lock & Safe. Mark is well known throughout the trade for his helpfull tools which deal mainly with identification of both mortice and safe locks....The Thermic Lance
For anyone interested in the uses of the Thermic Lance, this article, reproduced with the kind permission of Chuck March may be of some interest. The article was originally posted on the Clearstar network back in November 1998 and on the old Safe-engineers.com site....Back Dialing
The following article was written some time ago by Carl Cloud and explains the method of 'back dialing' combination locks, which may be of some interest to those who are starting out in the world of safe engineering....
