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A Mogul cylinder is one used on prison locks and is very large compared to a standard mortise cylinder. I purchased this on off ebay with no key.



Mogul Vs. ASSA Front.



Mogul Vs. ASSA Side.



Mogul Picked !!!!!



MTL pins, drivers 2 and 4 are mushroom, #4 also has master inner and outer pin, keypin 3 is a solid no inner pin master key pin.



Side Pins, passive key profiling, to ensure correct key is used.



Holes in plug that align with side pins, if a key is inserted without the side pin cuts, the side pins are forced out of the plug and into the holes in the housing preventing rotation.

lets see... yo uonly won it off ebay a few days ago (week topps) plus shipping... so it couldnt have taken you long to pick it...
woohoo go prisons lol

nice job man

Great pictures man. I can't get enough of the mogul cylinders. You are really mowing down those MTL's. Maybe you should slow down and take a few minutes on the next one...

Dude! As a relative newbie those pins freak me out!

Great pics! Are you doing a vid on it?

Crazy skills buddy! Great job getting that one picked...I'm with Tooly, you gotta slow down on those MTL's lol! Great pictures too, thanks for the post.

Amazing skills bud,those pins really are irrrrrrrrrrr well god dam ugly evil looking things,no wonder i havent no were near picked one

Yep you do need to slow down on these mtl's
I feel another one coming on tho very soon

Good job on that monster lock!
what do you think the reason behind having a solid pin in one chamber instead of the pin in pin?

I smell another "sticky" coming....great job Kokomo!

From what I have read it is a standard part of master keying to defend against the Michaud Attack.


Thank You very much !!!!!!!


I received a MTL rim cylinder in trade with Uklockpicker that was the same keyway as the Mogul so I picked the rim cylinder and switched pins so I have a key for the Mogul. I will try to get the Mogul on cam !!!!!

I had a request to show some pics of the tools I am using so here they are.



This is the Souber Dimple lock pick set.



These are the 3 tool I use on the Mul-T-Lock.



This is the small single ended pick with a curve to set the inner pins.



This is the large end of the double tool use to set outer pins and is chamfered to help get under the pins. Yes I cheat those are index marks I put on the tools .



This is the small end of the double tool use to set inner pins also.

Nice looking picks you've got there pal. Thank you very much for the pictures. I love the index marks...I'm definitely gonna do that.

great stuff!
thanks...maybe a close-up of the pins for the "photos of pins thread?
great addition.

That's cool, but when you get it picked without a solid pin or master pins in the #3 and #4 chambers I will be madly impressed.
what happens is the inner pin of the top pin doesn't slide inside the solid pin in chamber #3, so the inner spooling effect doesn't take place, which it becomes almost like picking a normal pin. And in chamber #4 the inner top pin catches on the outter master pin and binds, then it's just a matter of pushing the outter bottom pin up, and adjusting the inner pin after the "large false setting" to push the rest of the inner master pin up into the plug. With your setup there, it's like picking 3 real chambers of a mul-t-lock interactive, and the other two chambers are like "bypassed" of their security found in a standard setting.

But that's still a wicked achievement, keep it up!

souber tools England ) Hmm that gives me an idea