this is the lock-picking lawyer I
recently posted a video of picking this
Lockwood 570 cylinder it's a six pin
lock has incredible bidding and contains
the bevel driver pins that Lockwood's
are known for I got through it
relatively quickly and really didn't
think too much of it until I got a lot
of comments from people telling me how
they had so much difficulty with those
bevel driver pins I didn't really
understand what they were talking about
until I started picking this Lockwood
this is a Lockwood rim cylinder five
pins nowhere near as good bidding as
this 570 cylinder but it put up a fight
and I really didn't understand why so
whenever a lock like this surprises me
or I don't understand the way it's
acting I do what we will do together on
this video we're gonna take it apart
we're gonna look at the insides try to
figure out what's giving us the problem
and then form a strategy for picking
them so this will be a three part video
in the next part we will take a look at
the innards of this lockwood rim
cylinder and then if everything works
out part three will be a quick pic and
guttin so I will take this part this
lock apart and then restart the video
okay I have the lock apart now and right
away I see the difference from the 570
we have beveled edges on both the driver
pins and the key pins now as shown in
this diagram the tapered drivers tend to
wedge in the shear line and they'll
require a couple extra nudges to to set
them after you have that at or near the
shear line the tapered key pins work in
the exact same way but in Reverse the
tapered pins make it very very easy to
over set they'll do the same thing these
drivers do and they will wedge up into
the shear line and because the
tolerances are so good on these
lockwood's they will stay
there so what that means is that as a
part of our picking process we need to
regularly check for overset pins now
there's a lot of different ways to do
that but this is the way I do it forgive
my drawing I'm not the draftsman that
Brian is let's assume these are our key
pins this is the front of the back lock
the back of the lock I'll push my pin
until it hits against the first pin I
know that one's not over set I'll lift
it up just a little bit push it till I
hit the second I know that's not over
set so on and so forth and let's say
after you you try to hit the front of
the pin you go all the way back let's
say from 3 to 5 now we know number 4 is
over set it's easy to deal with what I
do at least is I leave my pick right
where that key pin should be I slacking
off tension ever so lightly until I feel
that key pin drop back down onto my pick
I finished checking the lock and then I
know none of my pins are over set it
sounds like an involved process but once
you're once you're doing it it doesn't
take more than the 3 or 4 seconds I do
it regularly and picking when I think
I've I've over set something
so in summary there's two things we need
to do with these locks first the driver
pins because of that bevel they're going
to require a couple extra nudges once
once you have them at or near the shear
line and because of the bevels on the
key pins you need to check for over sets
regularly and if you find one reduce
tension to let it drop so let's try to
put these lessons to good use so I'm
going to put this lock back together
throw it in the vise and I'll walk you
through a pack okay I've got the lock
back together we're going to pick it
open and I will talk you through
everything that I am doing so hopefully
you can replicate the process I'm using
a 50 thousands pry bar and a standard
hook
okay one's loose to Zeus threes loose
okay fours are binder lifting him up got
a little click there
nothing from five back to one nothing
from him little click out of 2 mm nice
little click out of three nothing more
from 4 or 5 ok one's binding got a click
there nothing from to click out of three
click out of 4 nothing from 5 nothing
from one nothing from two nothing from
three little click out of 4 nothing from
5 I'm gonna check for overset pins now
ones down twos down three stand for is
over set release tension I felt him come
down and 5 is 5 is down and I actually
fell that he's a binder now as well I'm
gonna lift him up a bit
got a nice click out of him nothing from
1 nothing from two nothing from 3 4
actually feel like 5 VI over set him so
let me let some tension off and that's
all it took ok let's take this guy apart
so you can see that all those pins are
still inside my conclusions are that
just to summarize as I'm taking this
apart these locks really aren't that bad
once you know what to look for and and
how to deal with over set pins I
actually need a shim to gut this because
of that that deep ridge right here it's
very difficult to to slide the core out
without something in there
okay here is all of our driver pins
I'm sorry key pins
I managed to get every single one back
backwards
okay now let's get the driver pins out
okay there's all of our tapered spools
okay let me give you a close-up as you
can see all tapered spools on the driver
and keep in positions to sum up there
are two issues that you need to pay
attention to on these locks the tapered
driver pins make it such that you need
to give them a couple extra nudges once
you have them at or near the shear line
and the tapered key pins make it such
that you really need to be vigilant for
over sets check every now and then if
you've over set any pins release tension
to let the pins drop if you do and you
should be able to wade through these
locks relatively quickly that's it for
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