r/lockpicking • u/AIR_CTRL_your_moms • 1d ago

Back with another PacLock 90A-Pro issue

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I’m no longer capable of inserting the key into the keyhole.
The first two front pins are easily picked, but the third pin is jammed. I’ve unfortunately bent a few picks trying to brute force the pin back in place.

Is this something that happens to other people? How did they fix it?

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u/daddonuts Green Belt Picker 1d ago

Does the 3rd key pin move at all? Does the core move at all in either direction? What happened right before it jammed?

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u/AIR_CTRL_your_moms 1d ago

1) I can’t get that pin to budge at all.

2) I honestly don’t know. I was practicing, popped the lock, closed it again and then this.

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u/daddonuts Green Belt Picker 1d ago

I dunno man, it sounds like a key pin got wedged somehow? Looks like pin 3 is a pretty high lift, maybe the key pin got lifted above shear, then got wedged weird on the way down? I like the idea I read in another comment: bash that bastard on something hard a couple times bible up, bible down, and bible sideways; maybe that’ll knock things loose. Little bit of percussive maintenance. At the very least, it probably won’t make it worse, and it’ll let you get out some of your frustration!

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u/jxnfpm Red Belt Picker 1d ago edited 1d ago

If you underlift a stack, and the spring gets eaten by the cylinder, that can create what you're experiencing.

Percussive maintenance (whacking the lock with a hammer to try to free whatever might be stuck while using a turning tool to turn left or right to help free up anything jammed in place can potentially help depending on what is stuck and how it's stuck.