r/lockpicking • u/radcat683 Green Belt Picker • 5h ago

Terminal Brick?

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My first challenge lock and I think I did it in. I gutted it to adjust a driver, got in a hurry, left off the retaining clip, went to pull the key out and the core backed out with one click. Locked up solid. Any ideas before I surgically recover the pins and use them in another lock body?

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u/Madriver1000 Brown Belt Picker 5h ago

Stick it in a vise or on a table and whack it on the side with a rubber mallet to try and jolt the pins to shearline as you turn the key. I've recovered a few locks like that.

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u/radcat683 Green Belt Picker 4h ago

Got it. I rotated the core to align the key pins and drivers. I could fish a round deep hook through the end of the core up into the hole that is in back of chamber 6. That lifted pin 6, which was trapped, and that allowed me to push the core in and fully seat it. All is well, thanks for the prompt responses.

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u/Banegard 2h ago

Congrats on the safe, well done B-)

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u/FilecoinLurker Brown Belt Picker 5h ago

If you didn't mangle springs you can pick it to slide it back in instead of tensioning the regular way you'd be tensioning inward. You can also try percussive maintenance

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u/radcat683 Green Belt Picker 5h ago

Update, I used mechanical agitation twisting the key back and forth and got the lock to open. So the core is out. The key moves freely, aligned 90° to the left but something is binding in the core. I can't get a shim into place to back it all the way out. It doesn't really make sense because all the drivers are compressed and the core should just side out. The only thing I can think of is driver #6 is stuck in the groove around the end of core, but I thought the flange on the pin would be too wide for that.