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Develop
your Lock Picking Skills with The Ultimate Practice Lock .
To read our beginners guide to lock picking
click here
The
lock picking practice cylinder that grows as your skills grow.
Pin stack retainer screws let you easily re-key this lock cylinder to
thousands of different key combinations. An assortment of
extra bottom pins, top pins, master pins, and springs is included.
Cut Away Locks
Cut away locks are great if you’re having trouble
understanding what happens inside a lock. Once you understand
what all the parts of a lock do, it’s time to move up to the
Ultimate Practice Lock. Unlike cutaway cylinders, this practice
cylinder can be picked in both directions and pins don’t fall
out of the plug. You can develop the skills that work in the real
world by picking locks using your sense of touch instead of by
sight.
For
the Novice Picker
This practice lock cylinder can be pinned with only one or two pin
stacks leaving the remaining pin stacks empty so the beginner can learn
the feel of a pin stack reaching the shear line.
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For
The Advanced Lock Picker
As your skills increase, you can add pin stacks up to a total of
six. An assortment of pins are included to allow you
to create different challenges such as a difficult to reach around
long first pin or a difficult to pick hi-lo-hi-lo-hi-lo pin
arrangement. The pin assortment also includes master pins to
let you create multiple shear lines like those found in many commercial
and institutional locks. |
The Ultimate Challenge Practice Lock
If you've mastered The Ultimate Practice Lock,
you can move up to The Ultimate Challenge
Practice Lock. The Ultimate
Challenge Cylinder includes
an assortment of spool pins so
you can learn
to overcome pick resistant cylinders. Special security pins
are becoming more common every year. A decade ago, security
pins were rare. Today, even some of the cheapest
hardware
store brands
include security pins to make them pick resistant. Most
locksmiths never develop the skills to consistently open these locks.
With practice, you can learn to consistantly pick these locks.
Learn to
recognize the feeling of a “false set” when a spool
pin binds the cylinder and how to reduce tension and rotate the lock
back toward the locked position to release the trapped spool pin.
The best way to learn this skill is to start with
a security pin in only one pin stack until you have
developed the necessary
sensitive touch. With The Ultimate Challenge Practice Lock
and
lots of practice, you can gradually master opening locks with spool
pins in all 6 pin stacks.
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Assortment of Pins
- The Ulitmate
Practice Lock
comes pinned with 5 loaded pin stacks. That’s 5
bottom pins of different lengths, 5 top pins, and 5 springs. The
cylinder is drilled for up to 6 pin stacks.
- The Ultimate
Challenge Practice
Lock comes pinned with 6 loaded cylinders. That's 6 bottom
pins
of different lenghts, 6 top pins, and 6 springs.
- Also
included are approximately 25 additional top and bottom pins of
varying length.
- Additional
springs are included in two different lengths. Short
springs are to be used with tall pin stacks and long springs are to be
used with short pin stacks.
- Enough
master pins are included to allow at least one master pin in each stack
so you can learn to pick institutional key systems.
- If you
choose the Ultimate Challenge
Practice Lock, we include at least enough spool pins to allow a spool pin
to be added to each pin stack for the Ultimate Challenge.
The assortment of pins will vary with each
cylinder. We grab a few of this and a few of that
and don’t spend much time counting but will make sure
you have at least the number of pins listed above. Typically
there will be somewhere around 50 different pins with each
lock. That’s enough for thousands of combinations.
Instructions for re-pining the cylinder and
training tips are
included
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Re-Keying
The Cylinders
The Ultimate Practice Lock and Ultimate Challenge Practice Locks don't
require the usual
disassembly, plug followers, tweezers, or difficult access to pins and
springs that other lock cylinders
require. This lock cylinder has been modified so that each
pin stack can be accessed from the top by removing a retaining
screw. A hex wrench for removing these screws is included.
Changing a pin stack is as easy as removing the screw and dumping the
existing pin stack into your hand. A new pin stack is dropped
in pin by pin. Bottom pin first, master pins if desired, a
top pin or spool pin, and the spring. Finally the retainer
screw is replaced. Extra retainer
screws are included. |
 
removing the retaining screw to change pin combinations
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