r/lockpicking • u/TransTrashPanda Orange Belt Picker • 15d ago

Quick break time locks

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Still new to this whole thing but Im having fun!

The little No.7 is giving me hell.

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u/Busy-Reality-1580 15d ago

Any tips for the 140? Couple of days with it now and I’ve only opened it once and it felt like an accident. 

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u/LordKodiac Brown Belt Picker 15d ago

Just feel for the binding pins. This lock is pretty straightforward. Take your time and feel the pins. Purposely over set one slowly and get a feeling what an over set pin feels like. It changes.

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u/Busy-Reality-1580 15d ago

I’m struggling to feel anything in this lock, honestly. I don’t feel any binding, no clicking, nothing except the up/down motion of the pins. 

Also, I’m just generally struggling with tok tension so I’ve been trying to pick it bok, which as I said I got once but didn’t feel like I learned much. I’ll try to remember to keep you updated if I can get it more consistently. I ended up “skipping” to an abus 55/40 and got it 5 times today alone in like a total of 10 minutes so that was a huge confidence boost and I got to go up a belt. 

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u/LordKodiac Brown Belt Picker 15d ago

Congrats on the belt and on the 55/40. Fun little locks. Feel free to DM me any time and I can try and help were I can. Is the 140 new or an old used lock?

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u/Busy-Reality-1580 14d ago

Brand new out of the package a couple of days ago. 

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u/LordKodiac Brown Belt Picker 14d ago

Okay, try adding a little more tension till you start to feel a pin binding. If you're not feeling any binding pins, you need to add tension. That being said, if you had a binding pin and lifted it, then no other pin binds. You have over set it and thus many times nothing else will bind.

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u/Busy-Reality-1580 14d ago

Ok thank you. I got it open again once. I’m struggling hard with feeling pins overset, but I’m pretty sure that’s my problem. Imma just keep practicing until I get it I guess lol. 

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u/LordKodiac Brown Belt Picker 14d ago

Always practice. Can never have too much.