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Easy... much too easy for the use it's supposed to have

Starting to get the hang of these. Took a while.




I have gotten a few opens on the Abus 80TI/50 but no real consistency yet.

Picked this one a few weeks back - forgot to post.

Thanks again to capt dunk, for encouragement, and guidance, my picking gets better than I thought it ever would. Heres todays pick. (repeated a few times waiting for kids)

Insomnia, is back. 3.30 am wide awake all week. So rather than go on the internet, and feel more awake, I had been getting a feel for dialing a safe, and contact points, in the dark,.(kinda like counting sheep).
After watching a you tube video posted by Potti314, I thought "wonder If I could do that without looking" . Well last night I picked a lock in the dark without looking. Wish I could say "I could do that in my sleep", but sadly I was wide awake.

I finally got the last bits I needed to finish my homebrew 2-in-1 tool for the S&G 6804


...and I used it to pick open my S&G 6804!


holy crap, what a buzz!

First of all.. Great job!

Secondly, I would love to see a thread about your home made lever pick complete with parts list and how you acctually went about assembling that beauty.

Scanlock SLX-5.... Finally!

Well done on the home brew 2 in 1 madsamurai, and on the picked safe lock.
It was only a few weeks ago you were picking a 3 lever warded. Now safes. Wow that's a rocket propelled learning curve.
Well done.

Thanks, guys...


Absolutely... I didn't take enough pictures as I went along, but plan on posting details... maybe tonight, but I'm pretty beat (and a 12 hour shift tomorrow... ugh) so it might be a few days before I get to it. Pretty easy to build, and cheap, and doesn't require much in tools (if you're good with a file). Stay tuned...


lol, thanks Ratlock. Think I just read something where you said something about running before learning to walk... I also don't really like to walk I actually expected more of a challenge out of the S&G 6804 than what it put up. Was very easy to tell when a lever was on the true gate or a false one by wiggling the levers, and the rest was just like picking spools in a pin tumbler. I spent some time feeling it out, but the actual pick only took maybe 10 minutes. Next step will be to make up some cheap "blanks" I can cut random bittings into and use to change the combination so I can practice more... those keys are silly expensive...

Perhaps a contour gauge copying tool, used with the lock cover removed, could be used to simulate new key bittings, negating the need for extra keys?

Evva MCS Gen 2.

Video to come.

That's a good idea...

Congratulations! This is progressing fast on the MCS at this time.