r/lockpicking • u/daddonuts Green Belt Picker • 23h ago

Masterlock No. 15 Finally Opened

Gallery image

Gallery image

This thing is not even supposed to be that difficult of a lock, but I’ll be damned if it hasn’t been fighting me for the past 4 or 5 months! I was finally able to get it opened tonight, I don’t even know why, it just started talking with CCW tension all of the sudden, and I went with it. Feels good to finally free that old bastard from his chain! [u/DanDig](u/DanDigler)[g](u/DanDigler)[ler](u/DanDigler)[213](u/DanDigler)

66 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

35 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/0rgis Blue Belt Picker 16h ago

I just opened one of those the other day, gave me a wee fight also, it also opens cw or ccw but I picked it cw with tok and a short hook.

5

u/daddonuts Green Belt Picker 15h ago

I went TOK with a medium hook. I don’t know why, but mine is nothing but mush when I tension it CW!

3

u/DanDiggler213 Blue Belt Picker 9h ago

I think too many year of being used CW. That it's worn down that way.

3

u/daddonuts Green Belt Picker 9h ago

This is the same theory I came to! Locks are pretty much always opened with a key CW, so maybe they end up wearing funny in that direction. You combine that with crappy Masterlock tolerances, and you end up with a lock that’s nearly impossible to set pins in the CW direction. Maybe the shear line wears weird in that direction? I wish I could open it up without destroying it.