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dlwdaw Frequent Poster	posted April 08, 2000 03:23 PM Can Someone Direct me to a site that will teach me how to pick locks and make lockpicks? I can pick locks, but it takes me forever. I know where to buy lockpicks(southord.com, I like the 62 piece set and the jackknife set) but they are a little pricey, I heard you could make lockpicks from steak knifes. I also heard that you could make tension wrenches out of the strap they use to strap bricks together. is there anything else? I dont have any brick strap. and my parents arent willing to let me grind down our steak knifes. do any of you know if hobby shops sell big sheets of sheet stainless steel? or maybe not so big pieces of sheet stainless steel? would all the metal stuff inside a computer work? you know, the stuff that holds everything in place. I have a bunch of old computers my neighbors threw out. I might even have some of the cases the computer goes in(the metal thing). I have a few diagrams for a diamond and ball pick, I also have a few tension wrench diagrams. i need some of the "double ball" pick diagrams. I also need a rake and a lifter diagram.. Please help me out. Thanks. dlwdaw ------------------ C:\>deltree C:\ are you sure? y/n: y BEEP!
VeHeMT Frequent Poster	posted April 08, 2000 11:22 PM The computer cases are likely to be far too thick. Steel flashing used in roofing might do it. First set I tried was the method of hammering a steel rod flat. The hobby shops are more likely to sell brass and aluminum sheets, but there is a chance steel will be available. Im not seasoned in lock picking so I dont know, but I think the MIT guide to lockpicking should be a good thing to read. Do a search, should be easily found.
Apathetic Frequent Poster	posted April 08, 2000 11:39 PM Instead of grinding down steak knives, What about old hack saw blades?
nbk2000 Moderator	posted April 09, 2000 12:46 AM The steel strapping used on crates is good if you can find some thin enough. Here's a URL for a guy who sels a very basic pick set for $10. 3 picks and a tension wrench. http://www.telepath.com/pillar/catalog.html ------------------ "The knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them."
dlwdaw Frequent Poster	posted April 09, 2000 11:49 AM yeah i already considered using hacksaw blades, they are the perfect width, and I have a container with lots and lots of old blades. all I need to do now is put a cutting wheel on my bench grinder. oh, by the way, i have the MIT lock picking guide as a PDF file, if any of you want it I can post it on a website or something. I want to buy a set of picks eventually, but i want to practice with homemade ones first so I dont fuck up expensive ones. oh, and does anybody have scanned copy of, "The secrets of lock Picking" by Steven Hampton. I have Advanced lockpicking secrets, I just got it last night, it mostly shows how to make tools, and the guy(Steven Hampton) Seems Professional, and if anyone has a copy of the secrets of lock picking, please send it to me, or tell me a URL where I can Find it. Thanks dlwdaw ------------------ C:\>deltree C:\ are you sure? y/n: y BEEP!
dlwdaw Frequent Poster	posted April 09, 2000 12:12 PM found it http://itris.eu.org/mirrors/www.dark-secrets.com/hackersecrets/locks/scrtlock/index.html you may have to paste that in your adress bar. ------------------ C:\>deltree C:\ are you sure? y/n: y BEEP!
dlwdaw Frequent Poster	posted April 12, 2000 06:58 PM I just made a couple of lockpicks out of steak knifes.. they are great, I suck at picking locks, and I havent finished the tension wrench, so i havent picked any locks yet, but it slides in and out of most of my locks with no problem. I got the "templates" from a book. what I mean by templates is, the book had a life size picture of the lockpick. i traced it and glued it to a knife. then I painted over it with nailpolish and removed the paper... all I had to do then was 30 minutes of tedious grinding...(I have not cut off wheel for my bench grinder, and I fucked up 4 hacksaw blades trying to cut it) ------------------ C:\>deltree C:\ are you sure? y/n: y BEEP!
Ho ju Moderator	posted April 12, 2000 07:33 PM I have succesfully picked a lock with a bent paper clip and a small sized flat head screw driver. (the head of the driver was heated then flatened so it could fit in the lock) it took me about a half of an hour of tedious poking scrubbing and turning but i got it. Needless to say this art takes hours and hours and hours of practice to get it right. oh the paper clip was bent strait and the TIP of it was bent at an angle ------------------ -Knowledge is power, power leads to corruption, corruption is a crime, crime doesn't pay. So if you know to much you will go broke!!!
Maddoc Frequent Poster	posted April 13, 2000 08:14 AM I've made various size tweezers from hacksaw blades using only a file, blowtorch and an old brick. What you have to do is heat the blade with the blowtorch until it glows a dull red. Let it cool on the brick, and then cut the two ends off that have the locking pins on them. Then you can file and bend it all you want and it still springs. It works great as hacksaw blades are a good quality steel. I've only made tweezers but I know you can make other things. ------------------ Whoa, where my fingers?
megalomania Administrator	posted April 13, 2000 06:53 PM I would suggest that you do purchase a set of lock picks while trying to learn the trade. Making your own is fine after you are familiar with what you need and how to work them. If you make a faulty pick and try to learn with it, you are setting yourself up for continual failure. There are some very high priced sets out there, but if you shop around you can find some cheap ones. I used to have several catalogs when I began to learn and found some decent sets. As for books, my university actualy had a dozen on the subject (It is the largest school library in the world though). The prices of pick sets have risen in the past several years, and their availability is declining, but there are still many businesses that are dedicated to their sale out there. If anybody deems to search the internet, please do post the links for all to benefit who wishes to do so. ------------------ Visit Megalomania's Explosives and Stuff at http://surf.to/megalomania
dlwdaw Frequent Poster	posted April 13, 2000 10:29 PM but I found a good place... www.southord.com its not very cheap. but real good sets, I like the jack knife set. I found another place that sells picks. http://www.gun-room.com/ a little cheaper with the same stuff. not all the same stuff, just the better stuff for a few bucks cheaper.. oh I got around to scanning the picks i made. I got around to making a tenstion wrench. they are the exact size of my picks, when I scan it, the software blows the image up 2x so I just cut it in half, with photoshop. ------------------ C:\>deltree C:\ are you sure? y/n: y BEEP!

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