I'm gutted to have bricked this cylinder but I want to find a way to save it. I hope to keep the destruction to a minimum but we'll have to see how it goes! 😭😂
A bow to the master unbricker 🥳! Excellent video and wise words. So glad you saved it and made it whole again! I will remember this when I get one of these and see about learning it. Thank you for sharing the trials and tribulations of picking 🍻✌🏻🌶
Definitely clean job 👌 I wish my local locksmith didn't drill and chew up all the springs when he did such operations😂 I work with him as a certified Locksmith but he is still using old and brute techs 😢😅
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that has bricked a lock. I was progressively pinning an Abus XP2. I was putting the core back in and one of the holes for a drill protection slug got too close and one of my drivers fired into it. No way to unpick it. I filled the top flat and I'm going to thread the pin chambers and put grub screws in it to get it back into service.
I would use "percussive maintenance" in hand as opposed to a vice and hit the lock the other way round so it moves as opposed to the pins. It's like those little puzzles you get when a kid with stripes that you need to tap on the other side of it than you would think.
I really enjoy video's like this, you learn so much from mistakes and failures, sharing it might save us the same issues in the future and better prepare for the inevitable when we do. Thanks!
A great video. I just got myself an Abus Xp1 and feel much more educated about approaching it now. Would have felt totally lost if I you had not prepared this amazing piece!
Great job 👍👍 Really enjoyed watching this 🤗 When I bricked my first lock I sawed/filed of the whole Bible with the plugs down to the springs 🤦♂️ I still have this in my collection as well 😅
Very nice job, exactly the same approaches that came to my mind, one thing of note machinist will often use a brass or copper hammer to prevent making marks on the surface
Funny: Same lock, same experience. I chose the grub screw option but yours with the replaced plugs looks just great! I found that picking of those can range from not too difficult to almost impossible. I am looking forward to your pick video.
Well this is so awesome. Great job and thanks for showing this repair approach to us. I would have gone the grub screw way. I would've bricked it certainly again directly after putting in the fixed plug caps :D
Nicely done Dmac, even though I had seen the positive outcome I was so glad (and slightly impressed, good aim! ) when you hammered that 1st plug in. Looking forward to the picking video now.
Great video!! I have bricked more locks then I care to remember 😅 Most all of then I have managed to un brick 👍 I like your solution. Well done!! 🐈⬛🐾🐈🐾🍻
Great save of this lock. I have been sent to this video by Mylok as i have bricked my dimple lock i won from Joe Picks. It's sentimental to me so I want to save it non destructively first. I'm going to try all your methods and see how it goes, hopefully i haven't damaged a spring. Thanks for this video, cheers
Best of luck with it. I was told in the comments a few times that my 'percussive maintenance' technique in the video was flawed. It works better to hit the top (bible side) of the lock to bounce the pins up. 😁👍🏻
Very good pointers. I’ve often wondered what types of attacks could fixed a bricked lock. And I always come down to drilling the Bible and grub or plug! . Good stuff👏👏👏😎
Grea6 vid mate. The lockpicker 1969 did a vid on using o rings instead if clips for easy progressive pinning and saves on metal fatigue on the clip. Might be worth knowing 🤜🤛
DMAC you should have held the lock in the upward position with the hammer (the spring-side up) and, once you hit it, the tensioner would eventually turn it.
I did try that too but had no luck. I should've filmed that but only tried after editing that first section. I realise now that the way I filmed most of the percussive maintenance was incorrect, but hey-ho, it's all a learning experience 🙈😁 I think the problem was that the 2 spools really bit into the plug beause of the offset angle of the key control chambers which I showed at the end.
@@Dmaclocksport remember I was going to send you my first CL? Well I messed up big time (even I could pick it!). But when I eventually make it I will send it to you. You're my go-to picker on here. But I'll wait til I'm confident it is a strong lock.
Cheers. At the end of the video @ 16:45 you can see exactly where they are. They're angled too which I believe was what caused the percussive maintenance to be unsuccessful.
so am having a similar sad assa experience - what size/kind screw did you use to pull out the plug?? looked like the drill bit was a 2? and a wood screw?? of size 3?? Many thank yous....dang it was going so welll
