anyone care to explain to me how to use a snap pick? i made one recently intending to teach myself but it’s not boding well…
normally i’m good at this kind of stuff but i’m baffled.
lol i’m curious to know why you need such skill… 
Never used a snap gun, but the basic idea behind lockpicking is to apply a sheer force, find the binding pin, set that pin at the sheer line, then repeat this process as many times as needed. I dunno if the snap works the same.
Good luck,
QK
Youl never know when such a skill will come in handy, that reminds me… I need to learn how to hotwire a car.
exactly! it’s useful. but yeah i know how to pick locks, i just can’t get the snap gun to work.
You use a sort of tool that looks like this:
and here i was thinking it looked like this:
well i guess i’m an idiot. i’ll have to make a new one.
Lock picking is easy, One pick serrated with 3 to 5 small blunt teeth, the other bent about half inch at 90% each about 1/4" or 1/8 " wide, stiff but flexible metal. the bent one is for turning the lock the serrated one is for the line up. Keep gentle but, even pessure on the turning one and comb the other back and forth slowly or medium speed. listen to the clicks and you will get it, it takes a long while the first few times but, then your hands will get the feel for it. ( A friend’s father was a lock smith and so was my husband in his youth they showed me how to do it and make my own set.)
yeah yeah… lock pick this and lock pick that…
if you really want to pick something, try a banjo
(grinning is optional)
-Imp
Banjo pickin is way out of my leauge but I do like to listen to a good picker.
i know how to pick locks.
i don’t know how to pick locks with a snap pick.
if you know how to pick locks with a snap pick, i would like to learn.
thanks.
I have never used one but there must be a description of how to use one somewhere on the net.
if only cuz everything is somewhere on the net
that is not a joke. everything is somewhere on the internet.
case in point:
http://www.hat.net/abs/noclick/index.html
A snap gun will more than likely just result in a false set, unless your lock cost $10 or less.
In your standard lock, you have five pins, of varying lengths. A key is inserted, bringing the top of each pin to the same height, allowing the plug to turn, as the plug is flushed with the pins at the sheerline.
What a snapgun does, is jerk violently upwards at the top of the keyhole, allowing all the pins to fly upwards.They will simply fall back down unless you apply tension to the keyhole, turning it softly. As the pins fly upwards, a gap between the top pins and bottom pins appears, allowing you to turn the lock.
Most locks, unless bought at Walmart, have security pins, designed to befuddle this approach. A pick gun doesn’t work in most modern locks, and certainly not in high security locks such as a schlage primus or a higher in medeco.
Electric picks are no guarantee either. My Klom Pick has difficulty with even your cheaoest kwikset locks made since 2014 due to security oins, I had to develope a certain amount of skill using it, essentially single pin picking it… before I learned the nuances. Now I can pop open a lock with a variety of speciakized pins in it under a minute.
For locks without soecial pins, such as older locks, a electric pick does it in a second. A pick gun… you gotta manually reload every try, but shoukd get it under ten shots… for the older ones.
Your better off just attacking it with a rake in all honesty. In every case, you gotta use tension, or else a pick, pick gun, ir electric pick gun wont work.
I occasionally do locksmithing on the side.
Damn amateurs don’t even know how to YouTube.
Like I said, YouTube videos won’t help much, most low security locks are tricked out with security pins now. Takes some time to learn how to pick them, and some kinds of pins are considerably harder than others to master. Unless your a locksmith, you really don’t need this gun, cause any house capable of being picked with this gun isn’t worth robbing. Your better off taking the standard broken window approach. I don’t advocate stealing, but more or less the only fools dumb enough to buy these guns are thieves, or your curious locksmith who just never bough one like me, wanted to see if it works. They work… on grandma’s house. Not anywhere worthwhile for most people interested for nefarious reasons.
If you by a Walmart lock like Brinks or Mountain (same company by the way) it will work. Walmart also sells kwikset locks for like… 1 or 2 bucks more, not easy, only occasionally works, random luck… and they are loud.
Got one recently (cheapest… a mountain lock) to trick out for a friend who likes picking locks in Locks Sports (competitive lock picking, you take a innocent looking lock, modify the pins, still works with a key, but is hell to pick). I made this very low quality Mountain Lock half impossible to drill (hardened steel inserts, and ball bearings), and the pins were mushrooms and a few cut down the middle, different spring types, and a false sheerline, just to mindfuck him. He still can’t pick it.
I fantasize sometimes about the cops aggressively pushing on a house I will own someday with a search warrant, thinking because of my internet searches I’m someone scary… and I show up surprised to see a swat team decked out with breech tools, one getting his hand bandaged up… door frame fucked up but door still intact, scratch marks from a failed battering ram, and seeing cops on the side of the house bouncing concrete briks off the window only to have them bounce back down at them without breaking the inner layers.
I just want to smuggly watch, refuse to let them in (their warrant, their entry, you don’t need me to help) and encourage them to try everything. Once they Yank the front door off… encounter a brick wall with a sign saying FU on it framed with a Smiley. Once the police Lt. is on his knees, bring him to the nearby storm cellar door seemingly unconnected to the house and walk him in. Might get ticketed for not being up to code with my trick entrances, but it be well worth it.
Doesn’t work on hardened steel, and not at all on deadbolts. Your more likely to break the cutter than the lock actually, went through a lot when I was put in army supply, short or long, they tended to break faster than the locks.
And before you whip out a drill pic, most drill bits don’t work on hardened steel plates, and ball bearings can be a real bitch to drill.
Turd, this is a Joker with all the subtlety of a lumberjack.
Think of him like 60’s Cesar Romero…he doesn’t pick car locks, he just busts the windows with that…thing of his…
He and his army of forest leprechauns are gonna save us from the evil empire with a crowbar and a machete…
Waltz right into city hall…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU8mj9lid0s[/youtube]
not the scene i wanted but meh, search engine sux…