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"reverse" spools?

PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:13 pm
by awol70
found these in an old american series 2oo i am restoring.
i have seen these before on one of the other sites, but never seen them in actuality.
does anyone know the tech term for these?

Re: "reverse" spools?

PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:51 pm
by m0ose
Romstar wrote:Barrel pins.

Haven't seen them in a while. If you are picking them, I am sure you will discover they can be a bit of a pain.

Romstar


I heard that these were a bitch, but once you learned to get them they wern't too bad. I heard that serrations gave more of a problem to inexperienced pickers more so then barrels.

Re: "reverse" spools?

PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:42 pm
by awol70
Romstar wrote:Barrel pins.

Haven't seen them in a while. If you are picking them, I am sure you will discover they can be a bit of a pain.

Romstar

not to bad to pick,definitely threw me off a bit,though.
at any rate heres the lock being picked.
(for the first time,after it was given to me by a locksmith friend . )

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOhosvVwmLE[/youtube]

Re: "reverse" spools?

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:46 am
by srbinkalot8275
they kinda look like that weird barrel pin that came out of that old master #3 that one guy had.

Re: "reverse" spools?

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:41 am
by pin_pusher
i'm not quite sure, but i have my suspicions that barrel pins were designed to thwart bumping attacks (i think they were incorporated in the newer american anti-bump locks, now made by masterlock). can anyone confirm this? has anyone bumped a lock with barrel pins?

Re: "reverse" spools?

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:11 am
by falcon
pin_pusher wrote:i'm not quite sure, but i have my suspicions that barrel pins were designed to thwart bumping attacks (i think they were incorporated in the newer american anti-bump locks, now made by masterlock). can anyone confirm this? has anyone bumped a lock with barrel pins?


I have bumped several trioving sec cylinders with 2 barrel pins and hardened pins inside.
Have never seen them in any other locks

Re: "reverse" spools?

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:34 am
by mech
ASSA use somthing very similar in there locks over here, usually the cuts are in different positions down the pin and differet size cuts, hope that helps.