How To Pick A Door Lock With A Key

Insert pick at top of lock.

How to pick a door lock with a key.

Still continuing to apply slight pressure on the wrench take your rake pick and insert it into the keyway and. The key pins are the lower set and have the task of reading the cuts of the key. Fit the key into the lock. Pull the trigger and the pick gun will start to vibrate as they vibrate the pins are pushed up into that center line inside the lock.

This puts the pins in the right position to be manipulated by the teeth of the modified key. Start turning the gun like you would turn a key once the pins vibrate on up towards the shear line you will know. Picking your first lock in six steps. First insert the tension wrench into the bottom part of the lock and rotate it in the direction you would turn the key to unlock it to place tension on the lock.

In the pin tumbler lock there are typically two types of pins. Maintain this tension throughout the process. Push it in until it stops then pull back slightly until you hear or feel the last pin click. Using a finger or two apply extremely light.

Insert the key into the lock. If it s too small for the 3 32 inch 0 24 cm wrench go down to the next size 5 64 inch 0 20 cm. Insert the short end of your tension wrench into the bottom of the lock s keyway. Note the main goals of the lock picking process.

Insert tension wrench into the bottom of key hole and apply slight pressure. If you don t have an allen wrench you could use a sturdy piece of wire bent into a 90 degree angle at one end. Insert the metal pieces of the electric pick gun inside the door lock. I prefer the bogota rake that has three ridges.

Be careful not to bend the pin too far and risk cracking the metal. The tension wrench is the key no pun intended to successfully. This is done by using a variety of different length pins and then cutting a key that matches those pin lengths. While applying light pressure with your tension wrench to the keyway you re going to push up pins inside the keyway with your pick one by one.

Bend one of the hairpins open until the ends are ninety degrees apart. This is the hole where you would insert a key if you had one. This one has picked every lock. Pick the lock using your tools.