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- From: mgreeny@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (David S. Greenberg)
- Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
- Subject: Re: pick guns and people who cut up books
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 22:22:35 -0600
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- pbray@sloth.Reed.Edu (<<hurdy gurdy>>) writes:
-
-
- > Is it so that a pick gun essentially is a device that holds some
- >kind of pick (rake?); said pick is inserted into lock keyway and said
-
- Nope.... just a straight piece of metal... long enuf to "cover" all of
- the pins in the lock... (yes, this is only really good for pin tumblers)
-
- >device is activated thus causing said pick to vibrate; the vibration
- >caused the pins to be raised to the shear line?
-
- yep, you got it...
- > Isn't it possible for the gun to vibrate the pins above the shear
- >line?; what precautions have been taken to eliminate this problem?
-
- Yes, none... who really cares? Just release the tension, and try again!
- Sooner or later you'll get it open -- sometimes sooner, sometimes a bit
- later. If all else fails, get out the drill! Actually, the whole
- principle is random, but it works!
-
- >Further, is it actually a pick, or is it, instead, a straight piece of
- >metal?
-
- Straight piece of metal...
-
- > I am considering building a pick gun (or an automatic raker) of
- >the following nature: an electric toothbrush is disassembled to reveal,
- >when activated, a piece of metal that extends itself to 1.5 inches and
- >then contracts itself to .5 inches rapidly. Rake, or pick, is attached to
- >said extending metal and subsequently inserted into lock keyway. Even
- >though this is a rake, couldn't it still "bounce" the pins to the shear
- >line?
-
- Not needed, just make the whole thing rattle up and down (the adjustment
- should be for the "up/down" motion, not the in/out motion...)
-
- > Oh, on another note, I went to Powell's bookstore (a big big
- >bookstore that has books listed under such diverse topics as tattoo to
- >rodents) and they did not have a locksmithing section. After routing
- >around for 2 hours I found some locksmithing books under "Security". They
- >didn't have much. I looked at the latest edition of Locks and
- >Locksmithing (I have an earlier version); I flipped to the section on
- >lockpicking and found that someone had neatly removed the entire section
- >with, what looked like, an exacto knife!
- > Peter
- >--
- >At the base of all these aristocratic races the predator is not
- >to be mistaken, the splendorous blond beast, avidly rampant for
- >plunder and victory.
- >-- Senor Nietzsche
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