lockpicking help! please!?

Question

alright so ive asked this same question before and got really arogent and aggravated responses but no real answers so those who do answer please, constructive criticism only otherwise your not really using yahoo answers correctly, which is hard to do. ANYWAY! So i have adopted lockpicking as a hobby just something to practice for when something comes up and i may need the skill.i can pick basic locks like those on my dads tool chest. but when i come to door locks i dont think ive ever been successful. i have bought practice locks and took pins out and work my way up, but actual door locks attached to a door i cannot seem to pick. i take time and push each pin up a few times. which obviously makes me sound like a novice but i dont understand what more there is to it. i have looked into the mechanics and innerworkings of a lock inside and out. if anyone can give me pointers or tell me what main thing i am doing wrong PLEASE do not hesitate to school me off my ***. just dont call me an idiot after all i am learning and i admit im a novice. also i am using a purchased set of lock picks and use feather weight on the tension wrench and ive tried puching harder on the tension wrench, i have sat down and tried 1 lock over and over and over and over but cannot seem to get it even once. please help in anyway possible :).

Answer 1

You can look online? Maybe your not using the right equipment? Look at tutorials? Look up: How to pick a door lock.

Answer 2

First, don't just jump in and try to pick the lock. First, understand the principle behind how the lock works. Each pin has to be held at the right height or the cylinder won't turn. You need just enough torque so that the pin won't drop back once it is at the right height.



BTW, I don't pick locks but have read a little on the subject; I'm a landlord and have re-keyed lots of them, though.



And VERY important, lock picks might be considered burglar tools, probably illegal to own in some jurisdictions unless you're a licensed locksmith. Don't carry them around.

Answer 3

properly some time past wen i replaced right into a Locksmith on long island city! I do no longer forget that i actually suck at it. I actual have achieved it some cases, yet while i replaced into in corporation it replaced into way much less complicated to drill properly suited with the aid of each and all the pins destroying the lacking mechanism and them employing a screw driving force to open the lock! Lock choosing is an paintings that require lots of time, additionally climate you have confidence it or no longer, require an previous lock! in case you ever on your life see those video clips have been they do it on some seconds, this is truthful to God a lie! locate any pal that "Say this is a expert at it" supply hem a sparkling lock and sit down and wait! if the guy is extremely good he would do it in approximately an hour or so! in simple terms interior the case that he do no longer supply up. Plus in case you communicate that would those that have extremely money do no longer use locks that would extremely be picked up!! in case you face even between the oldest Multylock, Medeco, or Winkhouse you would be able to chum will spend an entire day and your possibilities would be bleak to declare the least. you're able to have extra opportunities of fulfillment employing a chisel and hammer that attempting to %. a lock! via 1997 Medeco Lock corporation presented one hundred eighty.000 greenback to any pal which will %. one among their locks 2 cases with interior the comparable hour, they did no longer have a time cut back on the 1st beginning, yet they have a time cut back on the 2d! and have confidence me they nonetheless have that money properly tuck on their pocket, because of the fact beginning a lock is a controversy of possibilities, and once you open it the 1st time, the 2d.... a minimum of with between those that burn up 20 to 50 Million money in learn and complicated engineering, the 2d time is against you're a hundred.000.000 to a minimum of one! So good success and have relaxing!!