Lever Padlock Picking - Tools and Techniques: Ultimate Picking Guide Part 2

hello again it's Locke new Venus is part two of my ultimate guide to leave a lock-picking if you haven't seen part one please go look at that that's all about the terminology and the types of lever locks as they're out there well worth a look so that you can understand some of the terms which I'm using today this video this part two it's going to be about lever padlocked picking a topic I have covered of course a few times separately but I'm going to try to do a comprehensive overview today why have I chosen lever padlocks to focus on today well modernly for padlocks are a great place to start learning levers they're normally a little bit more simple and normally don't have any false notches or false gates in there levers and there are awful lots of fun to pick and you pick them in a number different ways will go to explore those ways now the first technique we'll be looking at is one which works on a few believed of padlocks which just involves a hex key to tension and a ground down key for picking then we're going to look at picking using lever wise for either picking and/or tensioning well then look at commercially available leave a padlock picks although to be fair you could make these yourself and last but by no means least we'll have a quick look at two-in-one picks and I have a couple which our bespoke made and commercially available in my hands here throughout this video we'll use this plastic fronted padlock as an example of how to use each of those techniques it's a very simple padlock this one based on the Old English leave a lock style this one only has three leaves in it but it works very very well to show you what's going on as I use each of those techniques you'll see that there are no pockets there's not really any gating but there is a lever bar and of course the bolt stump attached to the bolt mechanism which hooks through the shackle of the lock here saying see the leaver bars which need to be lifted over the bolt stump to the right height so that the bolt can retract and this mechanism here the bolts mechanism can release from the hook at the end of that shackle so for Old English padlocks the easiest way to actually open these is to use a technique to put direct pressure on the bolt itself but not in the key way and what you do is you would put sewing down the side of the shackle and then push it against the bolt mechanism here using one of the screws that go through either side of all rivets that go either side of the block as a pivot point surprisingly actually effective way to do it only downside of this technique is you cannot read lock it so once you've unlocked it that's it it's always good to use before this lock anyway it's a ground down version of the key because I don't have a bow this key I'm just going to put it in a little clamp like this so that I can turn it more easily in the lock and then we try to unlock it we put this small hex key down side we push on the bolt I'm going to put a finger there just to brace the lock and what I'm going to do is I'm just going to use the key as a pick using the drill pin on the inside of the lock as a way to guide this pick back and forth so what I'm doing of course is it's going to test each lever to see that anything's binding and yes it's a movement on lever to nothing on lever one there and yep here we go we have picked it sometimes you might need to just go in and give it another little chav with the hex key to get a full open but there we are so this is one of the simplest ways to get into Old English style padlocks of which there are many variants probably most famously this squire at 660 and the 440 which is a bit smaller if you don't have a padlock with a drill pin so you don't have the luxury of being able to grind down a key or a DD don't have the time then you might want to make yourself a pick wire to pick this type of lock and this is some 1.6 millimeter wire which is just bent into an l-shape I was a gentle curve on the end but you don't need to and filed to round off the edges then you can use the same technique on either of these two locks by applying tension and putting the pick wire in and then using that to lift these levers individually instead so that's the lever to leave three and leave a one I think we picked it might just need an extra little bit of a nudge there we go to fully throw that bolt there we go and we have an open and that will work just the same with this lock by putting this down the side of the shackle and using the wire to pick the levers just the same like this but what if you can't use those techniques on another type of leave a padlock the same way in which you could for these Old English style padlocks well then you might need to get yourself or make yourself something like this commercially available set and all this is really awesome cut down key blanks they've been cut down to just leave the bolt step on the key and if you look it's flat on one side which gives you enough room to put in a lever wire which I have that lever wire here then that allows you to tension using this tip and pick using the wire in the lock and because different locks have different keys and different key ways you can get a range of different size tips for such a pick so going back to our example padlock we can actually use this cut down key which I was previously using as the pick as the tensioning tip so I put that in ode then put my lever wire in this is a commercially made one make sure that I rotate the wire around with the tool I get tension and these kits usually come with a range of tension tips so you can choose a right one for the right lock put tension on of course clockwise to open and then I'd be finding the binding lever not one not two three two and one and we're open all the way and of course you can pick it closed again I was going to get this wire out I'll show you has to do that and what you'll need to do sometimes is actually tension it first and then feed the pick wire in that's why these are normally made of 1.6 millimeter music wire or less so I'd feed it in like that but I'll rotate it round and then whilst I am tensioning counterclockwise now I'll be just lifting the levers up using a leave one now binding first do two they go leave two and even three and I think we've gotten opened are almost we would have a close sorry mustn't open apart from the shackle is actually stopping the bolt from going into the hook so I knees push it in little bit higher there we go and now it throws the bolt all the way around to perfect so there we go so the traditional way of picking lever padlocks would just be to use wires what I mean by wires well I literally mean wires bent music wire and you have two types some for tensioning and these are usually thicker the one at the top here is two and a half millimeter but they can be thinner like this one which is 1.6 millimeter depends on the type of lock and then you need some picking wires and they can be commercially available ones like this one came in a padlock pick kit or homemade ones like this if we were to tension a lock with a drilled pin I would suggest using a tensioning wire which is roughly the same height as the keyway and they start there and either file or snip it back until it is right height then our attention by pivoting off the drill pin in the Talon of the lock itself if you have and that reads saying for this truck cruiser here if you have a lock which doesn't have a drill pin then you can either do something similar by tensioning on the Talon of the lock and then resting your thumb here to support the tensioning so it doesn't slide down if the lock or just get a wire which works from the bottom the key way like this and then that will go all the way up into the lock and reach the Talon that way once again for the purposes of the demonstration we will use this see through Locke and I will be tensioning using this wire pivoting of the drill pin just like that so on tensioning clockwise and I'm picking clockwise at the same time so I'm going to rest the wire on tip of my finger it's a Gibson support it also coffee on one nothing to oh hang on three there and we have an open there we go lastly we'll be looking at two in one picks now two one picks are incredibly useful because they are hard wearing you get great feedback you don't have to make your own wires and tensioning tips and worry about whether it's right for each lock and all those other worries however they are very expensive they can go from about fifty pounds to a few hundred pounds each depending on whether they're commercially available who they're made by etc etc they would naturally go into a lock the first tip is a tension tip and that's designed to put tension on the bolt Talon and the second tip is just a pick really a bit like that cut down key that we used earlier in this video I'm going to demonstrate this commercially available modified Chinese two-in-one pick tool to pick one of the most common leave a padlocks around the squire 660 so we have the squire Old English in vice are going to insert the tensioning tip or the two and one and rotate that around until I feel it dis linking with that bolt Talon has captured that Talon now so what tension on the lock I can't put medium tension on by just keeping this wheel turning nicely clockwise now the pick tip here isn't in the lock so need to insert that in and just try to find a lever and if it isn't abiding leaver to have a little spring to it okay then what we do is just gently go from leave to lever where it feels like it's resisting its binding and just needs to be pushed up slightly don't try to lift the levers all the way at the same time it's gently there go that's for just gently nothing that was them - that's the back in forcing set three seems set to one and hear that click that means it's open there we go so it's that easy with the tune once you know it gives you a lot more control but of course they are very expensive unless you make your own in which case you need the skills and time and resources to be able to do it and of course now it's open you should be able to pick it close to pick it close do you do sort of the opposite action you put the tension tip in and you'd rotate it now not clockwise but anti-clockwise until you felt it that's it grab the talent but you'd still be picking the levers in the clockwise direction so you just be picking the levers again but the bolt would be going this way from right to left as they're left to right on the open on some padlocks who needs to pick one lever in these I believe you got to pick all four here's level 1 you have 4 set now and I think we got it neither - yep fully locked up so that is the advantage of these two phones they can pick both ways relatively easily so there you are that's a what I think is a comprehensive run-through of all the major techniques of how to open up lever padlocks of course we've been doing lots of demonstration on this easy padlock here but so lots of the same techniques can be used on gigantic clocks like this Chubb Cruiser here and of course anything in between I would really encourage you to start with leaver padlocks because you still learn an awful lot about leave lock picking tensioning lever lifting and tool making while not having quite the level of complexity some of the standard mortise house lever locks that can give you okay I hope you stay tuned for the next installment and I'll see you next time you

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Length: 17min 12sec (1032 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 02 2019