(picking 208) SCHLAGE PRIMUS with sidebar picked, gutted and explained, big thanks to 'Luckes Locks' 

Thank you.

Thank you very much - your comment inspired me to pick this lock again today. Great fun when it first turns a bit after picking the pin tumbler then fully after the sidebar. Hope you can replicate the process.

Thanks a lot for your nice comment. Glad you got something out of the video.

Thank you very much Mike. It was a great adventure for me :-)

Not that hard. Looks intimidating, but just have a try. I found it not that difficult compared to my expectations.

Especially that they only have standard driver pins, idk why schlage doesn't put security pins in primus

idk idk because schlages high security system is adaptable. High security locks and keys are very expensive. Schlage makes primus keyways that fit into all of there standard series locks. E.g. a primus cp will fit into and work a regular schlage c keyway if cut to coinciding pin depths. This allows customers to have high security systems in certain areas of importance but in less important areas they can put less expensive locks and locksets but still key them to the same master keying system as the high security cores.

Guess this is no common attack.

Wouldn't some spools up top make this attack a whole mess harder?

Thank you for nice feedback, glad the video was helpful. Good luck with your lock.

Thank you. It's a really cool lock and I'm glad that I overcame my fear ;-)

another psychological barrier falls, my friend. Really beautiful padlock with a evil cylinder. Congrats mate!

Thank you Chris. After I've overcome the fear it was actually too easy to open. Only standard pins and the sidebar rakes very quickly. OK, the bitting is quite even but some deep spool would make it much harder. Then a false set might stop in-between at the sidebar which would make it weird to pick.

I just recently had a go again on this lock. It's truly doable and a great feeling when it pops open. Have fun and good luck. Thanks for watching buddy.

Very frustrating when you get it picked and then slip while doing the side bar pins and the plug slips back to 12 o'clock.

Thank you very much for your kind words :-) It was a surprise for me that it was really not that hard to open after I overcome my first fear.

Cool - thanks for watching and for the feedback.

Thanks you for watching - appreciate your nice comment. Glad that it helped.

Thank you for watching. It's a very interesting lock with cool features but it was not as hard as I expected. The tension for the sidebar raking is the critical part.

Great to read - thank you.

Yes, it's a very cool lock - fancy mechanism but not as hard as I expected. Thanks for watching.

Thank you very much :-)

Cheers, glad it was helpful for you.

Thank you. Was surprisingly easy compared to how much I was scarred ;-)

Thank you. I was surprised that it was much easier than expected.

It's 'Primus'.

Thank you - yeah, the lock is really cool :-)

Cheers and thanks for watching :-)

That's how this lock should work, both mechanisms binding at the same time. Good luck.

Thank you. It's a really cool lock. And I'm happy that I decided to give it a try :-)

Glad you liked it - thanks for the positive feedback.

Thanks, but in real life this is much harder to do. Imagine you have no vice and have to hold it in your hand while manipulating the pins.

Thanks. Yes, works without too much trouble. Guess they could have gotten more out of the sidebar if it had bound earlier in the plug rotation. Also some spool driver pins would make it more time consuming to pick.

I find them pretty tricky to manipulate individually. For me, at least, the more difficult part is lifting them.

I also thought so but when the tool is right, it seems to be working not too bad. You can put the plug in a holder and watch yourself manipulating the side bar, so you can verify the impact that you can cause. Here is what I mean: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4ryJEpK429c.html

I wonder if maybe my sidebar pick needs a little sharper edge on it to sneak up under those little levers. From the video it looks like your pick has a little more of a knife edge on it than mine does. It's funny... I actually did exactly the same thing as you when I was in the learning process. Not having the bible around the core made it tricky to see how the lifting works though.

Cheers - glad my video was helpful.

Thanks for watching - was a big surprise that it opened so easily once I dared to attack it. Cheers.

He who dares grins. :D

To control means that you can extract the core. Have a look here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4ryJEpK429c.html the special key interacts with the last pin so that you can extract the core. This could be achieved by picking also, but you would need to first stick in something in the back to push the pin permanentely and then picking.

I think I get it now :) Just had to re-watch this and another few vids. Thx.

Yes, that's why you should never pick lock (for fun) that are in use.

It’s actually graphite powder that Schlage uses in their locks. It makes a mess of your hands lol

That's a devilish idea. It would definitely cause a lot of headaches for the poor victim :-) Thanks for watching.

Thank you :-)

Thank you :-)

Thank you :-)

True, spools would have been very nice and effective.

Thank you - was fun to get the mechanism explored.

Yes, a cool lock. But opens too fast. Was a scare monger ;-)

I have only this lock. But I think the binding order can also be vice versa.

Yes spools would make it very difficult.

Thanks it was easier than expected - cheers :-)

Thank you.

Sorry, but no. This will stay in my collection. Bye, Michael.

Thanks :-)