ward locks

if you have seen cheep bike locks these are usually ward locks. almost all cheep locks are ward locks.

you really dont pick ward locks. what you do is make a master key that fits all ward locks. and then use it to open any ward lock.

the key below is used to open a ward lock made by the MASTER LOCK COMPANY. notice on the stem of the key there are three crosses or t's.

you make a master key by filing down the key to your ward lock. file off the two middle T's only leaving the bottom T.

once its filed down correctly it will open any ward lock.

the key correctly filed looks like this.

when i was a little brat in grad school most ward locks made by the MASTER lock company only used the bottom T to open the lock.

to open this type slide the filed down key in and open the lock like you normally do.

but some older ward locks used one of the middle T's to open the lock.

in this case you use you filed down key to find each T in the lock and attempt to open that T.

you would use the key to find the bottom key and attempt to open it.

if that didnt work you would use the key to feel your way up and open each of the middle T's until you found the T that open'ed the lock.

i have found some MASTER LOCKS use several of the T's to open the lock.

in the lock i have first i use the key to open the middle T.

then i use the key to open the bottom T and then the lock pops open.

i suspect that there are ward locks out there where several of the T's must be turned at the same time. in these cases this pick would not work.

ward lock's are not very common now days. probably because they are very easy to pick, and maybe because pin tumbler locks are cheeply made.

but in the old days before our time ward locks were very common.

pin tumbler locks and wafer tumbler locks

these are the most common in home & business door locks, good quality pad locks, car doors.

pin tumber locks usually have 3 or more sets of two brass pins in them.

your key moves the pairs of brass pins.

when the pins line up with the locks cylinder the lock will open.

wafer tumber locks work the same way but instead of having brass pins they have flat metal wafers.

when the key pushes the wafers and they align with the locks cylinder the lock opens.

wafer tumbler locks are cheep locks and very easy to pick. you can usually open them just as quickly with a pick as you can with a key.

when i say easy i showed my sisters kid who was at the time in 5th grade how to pick pin tumbler locks. it didnt take him 5 minutes to be able to say look mom i can open the front door with out a key.

pin tumbler locks are better quality lock. if you new at picking they are a little harder to open then wafer tumbler locks.

but if your good at picking or have a lock picking gun they can usually be opened just as easily and quickly as wafer tumber locks.

wafer and pin tumbler locks are both picked the same way.

you use a lever or wrench to turn the lock as if you were opening it with a key.

the key here is justing using a little leverage. dont twist it too hard.

at the same time your twisting the cylinder you use a pick to bounce the pins up and down.

as the pins are bounced around one by one they get stuck in the open position because of your twisting of the cyclinder.

when all the pins get stuck in the open position the wrench or lever your using on the cylinder will usually turn the lock open just like a key does.

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pin tumbler locks with the round keys

These are the types of locks you see on coke machines, candy machines, washing machines, and other machines that usually take money from you and give you some product for your cash.

I have seen picks for these and they are rather pricey. $40-$60 for a pick that picks only one type of key.

The person I spoke to at DEFCON says they are even easier to pick then regular pin tumbler locks.

After I makes some picks and play with the keys I will update my web page with what i find.

At the DEFCON conference I learned how to make a simple pick for these pin tumbler locks with round keys.

The pick is made by grinding grooves on the outside of old key.

Use a tool like a mototool from dremal to cut the grooves.

One groove is ground for each of the pins in the lock.

To pick the lock you put the key in the lock and turn it. This is like putting a tension wrench into a regular lock. Remember just light tension.

Next take a piece of wire needle, or paper clip and shove it thru one of the grooves.

This wire is used to push down the tumbler until it locks into place.

after picking one tumbler move on to the next tumbler.

combination locks. the kind on safes.

you have all seen it in a movie where a crook put his ear to a combination lock and then quickly picks it listening to the sounds.

well thats all it is hollywood movie stuff.

it aint that easy in real life. in fact these locks are very hard to pick.

i read a book on how to pick them and the procedure is so complex and time consuming that i didnt bother to learn it.

the basic procedure to pick them is to find where the holes on the tumblers are and where the knobs are on the tumblers.

you do this like they do in the movies by listening and feeling the lock.

then you draw out what looks like a bio-rythim and use that map to guide you to what the combination might be.

it was hard, time consuming and not easy.

car locks

to get into a car you usually dont pick the lock.

you use a slim jim or long flat piece of metal to open the door.

you slide the slim jim down into the car door from where the window meets the weather stripping on the door.

you then search for a lever to pull on or push on which will unlock the door.

sometimes finding where the lever is and which way to pull it is very easy. sometimes its a bitch.

most tow truck drivers, and locksmiths who open car doors carry a book which shows how to use the slim jim to open the door on every model of car made.

i think the price range of the book is about $50.

you can buy these books from locksmith supply stores.

starting cars with out a key

i have not played with the locks use in car ignition systems. and dont know how to pick them.

older cars only had a key to start them.

on newer cars you have a key and an electrical resistor in the key.

even if the key fits the lock, the lock wont open unless the resister on the key matches the value the lock expects.

the lock tests the resistor by running some electricty thru the key and testing if the correct amount of current (milliamps) flows thru the key.

usually if you have the right key but wrong resistor in the key. the cars computer will not let you try to open it for some period of time.

locksmiths hate this because it slows them down.

car theifs usually just rip the locks out to steal the car and dont bother to pick or cleanly open the lock.

handcuffs

handcuffs have silly keys.

the amazing thing about handcuffs is one key fits any hand cuff.

in america almost all cops and goverment thugs use peerless handcuffs or smith & wesson handcuffs. the same key will open either model handcuff.

hand cuff keys have two parts.

the first part is the key its self.

the second part is a little metal rod on the key.

when you handcuff a person you can push the cuffs closer and closer to the persons wrists.

the little metal rod is used to lock the cuffs so you cant make them any tighter.

on the peerless cuffs you push the metal rod into a hole and it locks the rachet in the cuff.

on the smith & wesson cuffs you use the metal rod to push a thin wire in the cuff which then locks the rachet in the cuff.

the key turns in two directions on both versions of cuffs.

turn the key in one direction to unlock the cuffs.

if a cuff has had its rachet locked you 1st turn the key in the oppsite direction to unlock the rachet. then you turn the key in the other direction to unlock the cuff.

HANDCUFFS ARE AMAZINGLY SIMPLE TO OPEN WITH OUT KEYS

You can use a safety pin, paper clip, bobby pin, or piece of wire to either shim open or pick handcuffs almost as quickly as you can open them with a key.

The first method is to shim open the handcuffs.

You can do this with a saftey pin, SMALL paper clip, or a piece of stiff wire such as the small sizes of piano wire you buy in hobby stores.

Handcuffs have a metal part that swings around. This metal part has a series of notches in it on the end.

The other part of the handcuff has a rachet in it.

The rachet in combination with the notches on the other part allow the handcuff to move in one direction only. towards the prisioners arm.

By shoving a safty pin or wire between the notches and the rachet you can shim open the cuffs very easily.

Sometimes you can just shove the wire in and the cuffs will open up.

The cuffs dont just open. You have press your arm against them to force them off. but its just normal pressure. you dont need superhuman strength.

Other times you have to shove the wire in. Next you get the arm to move in a few notches.

This forces the wire between the notches and the ratchet.

Usually it only takes one to three clicks to have the wire in deep enough to get the cuffs to open.

BE CAREFULL if you use a wire too big you can cause the cuffs to jam up and the only way to get them off is sawing them off (well there are easier ways but the cuffs have to be taken apart).

Typically this happens when i use a bobby pin to shim open Peerless handcuffs. The Peerless cuffs will jam up.

But on Smith Wession handcuffs a bobby pin shims the cuffs open perfectly.

PICKING HANDCUFFS WITH A BOBBY PIN IS AMAZINGLY SIMPLE

Picking handcuffs with a bobby pin is amazingly simple. You can even use the handcuffs to make the bobby pin into a pick.

bend the bobby pin so it looks like this

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you can use the keyhole on the handcuffs to bend the bobby pin if your in a jam. its very easy. try it.

once you do it a few times its very easy to open the handcufs with the bobby pin pick. in fact you can do it just as easily and quickly with the bobby pin as you can with a real key.

but the first few times it hard to open it with the bobby pin pick. so practice doing it a few times and dont give up.

a pick can be make to open handcuffs by cutting the top off any handcuff key and you can carry it around in your shoe.

I have not done this but read it works. If I ever get around to trying it i will update this document and delete it if it doesnt work or tell you how well it worked if it works.

you can make you own handcuff pick by taking a brass tube in a ball point pen and either soldering or using super glue to add on the key part.

To make a key for the lock you use the round brass cylinder that you shove the key into and each of the tumblers that was on the bottom.

Shove blank key into lock.

Put bottom tumbler into one of the holes. Its probably best to start with a hole on the end.

Repete these steps until done.

• Measure or eyeball distance tumbler sticks out of cylinder.

• Use jewelers file to file down key for distance tumbler sticks out of lock.

• Stick key back into lock after filing.

• See how far tumbler sticks out. You have to file this much more off of the key to get that tumbler working.

When you have that tumbler working move on to the next tumbler and repeat for all 4 or 5 tumblers in the lock

As paper boys we liked this now we could get free locks from SRP with two different keys.

From sixth grade on into college i always viewed locks as free commiditys supplied by the Salt River Project.

Need a lock. Just find the nearest irrigation ditch and use one of my two keys to take the lock on it off.

When I got out of college i realized they could put me in jail for taking the Salt River Projects locks so I stopped taking them.

I never used my keys to the Salt River Projects canal system to do any harm but a friend of mine used to like to flood out little league games.

In the summer when water was flowing in the canals he would open the gates and cause an unscheduled irrigating of the baseball fields at Paiute elementry school in Scottsdale. I dont think he liked baseball or school very much. His name was Richard Fenton. He died of a drug overdose in Hawaii when he was a Marine.