(228) Security Pins - How They Work (Part 1)

hello again everybody and welcome back and today we're on security bins so I made up this little demonstration piece hopefully we can show you how different security pins react in the lock and how things seem to work so for those of you don't really know how they work this should show you and possibly even for experienced people actually seeing how they work inside will actually help you when you're making pins let see what difference it makes so effectively this is the inside of a lock we have a key pin they drive a pin and a spring just for today this bit here is our tension wrench and my finger is going to be our peak so as we know if you actually put a key in a lock it does that and then when you turn the key we're open simple as that so effectively the same thing when we pick it apart from we're actually putting tension on as we're lifting the pins and when we get sort of point little turn effectively if you've got five or six pins in there that's what your binding order is and depending on the tolerances in the lock depends on which ones go first but now we've felt serrated pins so this is a serrated pin and what happens with a serrated pin we should probably seen plenty of people picking them is when we put tension on the lock we can see what's happening with the pin and as we you can probably hear it click and I'm we're getting caught up just here so we get a tiny bit of counter rotation keep on and that's why we get the nuttiness when we have serrated pins thing you've all heard about is spor pins so here we have a spawn pin so effectively they don't come into play really until you've picked anything that is on the shear line for example in another chamber you'll have the standard pin when you get to there that's when you get a full set and that's showing you how you get the full set and what's actually happening and then when you try and pick the pin this is where when you hear everybody talking about counter rotation you can see it's a balance between how much tension I'm putting on on how much pressure I'm putting on the pick and then we get to that point and then that is a picked pin the other top pin we hear a lot of talk about is t pin so this is effectively where we go and we get a full set so we think we've got a spool or pin is actually picked because we have no spring tension on the key pin at all and even if we try and push up we don't get any counter rotation or anything so for those of you new to the sport when you watch us picking challenge locks when we say there's just something hanging up somewhere a lot of the time it is a key pin and that's how we can identify what T pin is and and we can get it out there so the taping effectively makes the Pinfield picked compared with a sport pin there's a sport pin will still as you can see it will still push down on the Cape in where is the tape in gives you that full set but exerts no pressure at all on the key pin that's what makes those tricky but then what we can also have to deal with is threaded calls so threaded core doesn't make an awful lot difference when you've got a standard pin as you can see just straight up at the times I do work is yes again with security pins so start off with a serrated pin we can see it's actually the serrations actually interact with the thread actually make it harder to get the keep it up and get it picked but they also have an effect with sport pins because if we try picking this we can see we actually get we can actually get the edges of the spool court so that now is locked we're not getting any counter rotation so that is one of the situations where your here is talking about manual count about I should be that you have to turn the call back like so and then we'll actually get picked so it's one of the situations if you've got under cutting grooves and spawn pins as you can see doesn't matter how hard I push on there nothing's happening whereas without that I push it counts rotates itself so that's how threading interacts with those with t-pins yet again doesn't make an awful lot of difference because there's still we acting exactly the same way as it could have with a standard and get it to turn something sham there we go so that works exactly the same way whether you've got a threaded core or not so I hope that explains to some people exactly what is happening when we are picking the lock and held the pins are actually interacting and what the different security measures actually do and I hope you find it all useful so anyway thanks for watching see you again soon bye

Channel: Pete Restall

Views: 192,639

Rating: 4.9033732 out of 5

Keywords: LOCK, LOCKPICK, LOCKPICKING, PADLOCK, RAKE, ROCK, SHIM, SINGLE PIN PICK, SPP, TIPS, ZIP, euro cylinder, pin tumbler, eurolock, locksport, the shed picker, Security Pins

Id: fMe2b6n2q-w

Length: 9min 27sec (567 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 19 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Mr_Teaofthetime]

I work with an ex-locksmith and although he is a wee bit rusty on the picking front he's shown me how to pick some basic locks. Cylinder locks are pretty easy to bust open though, all you need is a drill and a good strong bit and you can get the thing open in a few minutes. Done that a fair few times, strictly legitimate :-) I deal a lot with master keyed systems which is interesting, the locks can get quite complicated as several pins stack together to allow several different keys to open the same lock.