I am a new picker with other RU-vid tutorials I tried to pick my 175 and it did not work. With your help I was successful thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
Thanks so much.Your video helped me to fabricate my "tool" and to pick my Master 175d. After I located the the indentions on the wheels, I added 2 to each number. I was fairly certain that I had located numbers on wheels 2,3 and 4 then I started rotating wheel #1 until to my surprise, my lock popped open! Thankks again!
I tried this on my dinghy lock and it gave me the same combination numbers I thought it was. So I soaked it in vinegar for a few minutes and it opened right up. Now I'll rinse it off in fresh water and use some WD40 on it. Thanks for the help!
Unreal. I watched the video, found some 0.09" shim stock I had laying around, shaped it to aproximate shape and size with a vice and some files. Within less than 20 seconds the lock was open. Great video. I've never picked a lock in my entire life.
Thank you Thank you, I've watched tons of other videos and never been able to open this lock. After watching your video I opened it no problem once I understood what I needed to do, thank you
You can change the combination without the key if you keep pressing that hole with a tool and align the wheels where you want them. Just the combination needs to be set correctly before pushing.
That's true. The "key" isn't really a key, it's just the equivalent of anything that will fit the hole so you can push the pin sideways. The advantage of the "key" is that because it's got that "flag" on the end you can turn it sideways, and it holds itself in .. otherwise you have to hold your "tool" in by hand.
1:03 when flat is at that low angle, the notch is aligned so it can open, correct ? Because I kept trying to open it today, keeping my tool in that area and I opened it by MISTAKE (with correct combination aligned) :)))
You can't change the combo unless you know the existing combo. That's the reason for the notches. If you don't know the combo you will need to watch a video about how to use the pick to figure out where the flats are. When you have found the flats you can get the combo. The only help I can give is that in my experimenting I was able to find the flats for the 3 right dials but not the left dial. So I just tried all ten numbers for the left dial and got the final number. Same would be true for any single dial that you can't seem to find the flat. If you can find the flats for the other three you can just run thru the 10 positions for the last dial.
Fantastic visuals. But you are bypassing the hard way. You should get in shallow above the combs and push down, not in deep and push up. You also need to depress shackle.
Using my opened up lock so I could see what was going on I took a look at the angles I was using and as best I can tell I'm only going under the shackle, not the comb. I do agree with you, if you did go too deep it would be counter productive.
