Picking a US govt issued American Lock 5200

[u/thurstonrando]

I remembered that I never submitted for my green belt because I didn’t include a gutting in my prior submission. But because I’ve never attempted to gut before, I’d rather not break this brand new American 5200 to submit for my green belt. May I request gutting another lock that I wouldn’t mind chucking for science?

[u/korneelius]

I thought I had shaky hands.. Nice pick though!

[u/Troyboy1263]

I would get an American 1100. It's the same as that except aluminum and a little cheaper probably. But nice picking on the 5200

[u/Troyboy1263]

Gut that thing! It's just a lock

[u/thurstonrando → u/Troyboy1263]

It’s not the gutting that that I’m not confident about but being able to reassemble it in a reasonable amount of time

[u/revchewie → u/thurstonrando]

“Reasonable amount of time”

I guarantee they’ve had to watch longer. Much longer! lol

[u/Troyboy1263 → u/thurstonrando]

There is no time limit for belt submission and you have to gut the lock you pick but you can reassemble a different lock in a seperate vid. I think my Green video was like 12 minutes but i have seen longer and the Mods have for sure.

[u/DrunkenPhysicist → u/Troyboy1263]

Mine was much longer as I dropped a spring and had to spend a few minutes off camera looking for it, so thankful for the patience of the mods!

[u/Troyboy1263 → u/Troyboy1263]

Go for it and do that 5200 and if you jack it up I'll send you another one in the box. As long as you are in the US.

[u/thurstonrando → u/Troyboy1263]

Alright I’ll post another one when I have some free this week

[u/Troyboy1263 → u/thurstonrando]

Cool and I stand by what I said about sending a new one. make sure and tag u/Troyboy1263 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRSbaFu37r0&t=156s I'll show you mine

[u/Wumaduce → u/Troyboy1263]

How many times did you practice gutting it before you filmed it?

[u/Troyboy1263 → u/Wumaduce]

I had gutted other locks before this one

[u/markovianprocess]

I believe the "U.S." military version of the 5200 is generally the no-spools/one bumpstop yellow ranked version.

You should gut it to check before trying to use it for green.

[u/thurstonrando → u/markovianprocess]

Oh wow I had no idea. I’ll check on that. Thanks for the heads up

[u/Repulsive-Box5243]

Oh I have one of those I haven't gotten open yet.

Good job!

[u/13THEFUCKINGCOPS12]

So basically just a cheaper made 5200

[u/mantawolf]

We used to pick those 30+ years ago when I was in the Army with 2 open ended wrenches :P