I got to have a close look at this tool tonight. It is its 2nd generation because the first one came with 5 'blanks'; one for each possible position of the magnetic pin...now the whole thing is magnetised so it does not matter where the magnet needs to be, all bases are covered.
Anyway, it is NOT NDE. It breaks off the inner pins (gulp). So there is no way you'd want to leave the lock on the door after using this. It works by a crummy foam strip that self impressions the outer pins. The idea is that you use it for one opening then glue a fresh one into the hole. Then, once the outer pins have self-impressioned you shear the inner pins off. That's why the handle is so big. They also had to change the steel of the original tool because it kept shearing (shocker China). Unfortunately we did not have an ABS handy to destroy but should have tomorrow night. I love the simplicity of using a foam strip, it's just a shame they couldn't get it to work on the inner pins too and make it 100% NDE.
I hear that the lock has now been redesigned again so the inner pins are now stronger. The arms race has begun
Incidentally, the Avocet ABS is very easy to pick by hand. NDE. It has 3 sets of trap pins that are easy to pick out of too, just in case you try it and get pissed off that the lock seems broken. I imagine that the loose tolerances that allow the foam attack to work (or not, we'll see soon) are what makes it easy to pick too. For a pin-in-pin lock, it is not fit to lace the MTL Classic's boots.