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As the industry leader in stainless steel locksmith tools, SouthOrd has a reputation for providing quality lockpicking tools for government professionals, repo men, Special Ops forces, locksmiths, and hobbyists alike. SouthOrd Tubular Lockpicks are professional grade lockpicks with rubber slip resistant handles and an adjustable tension locking collar Read More
So they open up the tubular locks but how to re-key or create a key from the pin depths? I mean we want to open the lock and size out the pins or it this just to open locks which seems super sketchy as previously listed.
Then to open tubular locks you can always use the old bic pen cap trick.
IdeaStormerOnce it is opened, tighten the pick and it will be clamped at the correct depth. The picks should come with a "depth key" so you can cut one by number.
As far as possible "legal" uses go, how about this example:
I found around the corner two bicycles that had been locked to a bike stand and then abandoned for several years - according to the neighborhood's "beat cop", and it kept the stand from being used by anyone else, so one of them being a premium brand (Canondale) I inquired with the PD whether it was considered abandoned (yes) and if it was OK for me to remove them w/o damaging the stand (yes), so these tools would be an alternative to using bolt cutters, hacksaw or having to buy a portable battery-powered grinder (the lock is a substantial cable model). Now I need to pay it a visit to see if it uses this kind of lock because I can't remember ...
Friendly reminder that Massdrop's lawyers, while being correct in notating that they can't be held liable for anyone using such tools illegally, whiffed the ball on that owning entry tools is not illegal and in-training individuals would otherwise have no other way to acquire them if it were illegal to own them without some rudimentary-level accreditation (if any even exists in your jurisdiction).
As you will note, various other lockpicking tool kits both here on Massdrop and elsewhere on the internet got that message...
ElectroMiteNo shame in asking man, I even had to look up how this set worked. Middle knob adjusts tension of pins and pins will adjust to tubular lock pin heights. Here's a video that I think uses this exact set, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulzZ9T2oGPE
Mine arrived the other day. Took me a couple of goes to get the feel for it, but I’ve now managed to pick the locks on both of my arcade cabinets! Both had been locked with the doors actually removed and the keys lost in a house move. It meant I couldn’t put the doors back on... Anyway, both have 6 pin tubular locks. Quite an easy job with the 7 pin pick. I have no experience with other tubular lock picks, but for what it’s worth, these seem like a quality product which got the job done easily.
NigzThis is a great review because people always ask what you would need these for other than criminal activity, and you've provided an example most people would never think of.
Nigz^ This. I'm so sick of seeing "Oh goodie, another Thugdrop." comments every time picks show up in EDC and Hobby communities...
When I got my NEO-GEO cabinet several years ago, the coin door lock had been removed, but the marquee bezel's hadn't... (On a NEO-GEO cab you swap 'mini marquees' to show what games are slotted in the machine, so frequent access to the area behind the marquee is part of normal operation.) So the only way I could open it was to take all the screws out of the bezel... And of course, being a vintage 1991 cabinet made with materials from the lowest bidder, the particle board around the screws disintegrated. :(
There's plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons to own lock picks, even if you "refuse to believe that locksport is a thing."