I play around with lock picking because it amuses me and I often need something to keep my hands busy (I can be a fidgeter). Busy master lock is just awful for security. I love the note on the back of the package about pin tumblers for better resistance to lock picking. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️. Video in the next post of this thread showing it opening with JUST the turning tool, no picking necessary. Any flathead screw driver could open this lock 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
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@Kurtroedeger Hi Kurt, during COVID lockdown I discovered lots of lock picking YouTubze and became fascinated with the techniques and variety of locks out there!
One thing for sure - I will NEVER again buy a Master lock! Complete waste of money.
Like you mentioned, they can be opened so easily that IMO it's not even fair to call it "picking". Hitting a Master with an old shoe would probably work!
Some of the fancy European locks that guys like Lock Picking Lawyer tackle are mind-boggling!
@Sam_B_RF_Dude yeah, I don't feel like I'm picking them so much, but it does resolve the fidgeting for me to just sit there and play. I want to get to one of those bridges couples leave locks on though and have fun, but I don't know of any near me.
I also have a storebrand Ace hardware lock I haven't cracked yet.
@Kurtroedeger Cool! My neighbor has some Ace locks on his animal enclosures, they look just like Master locks. For fun, I took my home-made pick set (from a wiper blade) and had NO luck with it! It seems the Ace locks are much more secure, at least to my infant-level skillz.
@Sam_B_RF_Dude pics of your homemade picks? I think I have a junk wiper blade and I could use a deeper setting one
@Kurtroedeger I'll see what I can do for pics. They're nothing special, I just stripped the metal stiffener out of the rubber wiper. "Cut" it by filing a notch in one flat and bending it to break it.
Just bent one into an "L" shape for a tension bar, took another straight piece and filed it to shape - it's crude but gives me something to play with.
The metal is hard, but not brittle, it can be filed without having to anneal it IIRC