Locksmith In Attleborough Picking Locks

Locksmith in Attleborough How Do They Work

Locksmith in Attleborough What do they do? Well often a locksmith in Attleborough is called upon to open a lock on a front door. So how does a locksmith in Attleborough open a lock when the keys are lost. Well depending on whether it is a mortice or cylinder lock and the experience and skill level of the locksmith in Attleborough. If it is a cylinder lock the locksmith in Attleborough may use a credit card type piece of platsic too slip the door open, often this is the preffered technique as it is quick easy and gets the customer into their house fast. Another method used by a locksmith in Attleborough is a letterbox tool where a tool is inserted through the letter box and used to open the lock from the inside again fast and easy to do. Lock manufactures have realised this is a problem so over the years a dead locking facility or anti thrust latch has been added to prevent a locksmith in Attleborough from slipping the lock, so what if the lock is deadlocked. Then our preffered method would be to pick the cylinder using either hand picks or an electric pick gun. This causes no damage to the lock in effect you are replicating the keys pattern to defeat the cylinder, of course lock manufactures have become wise to this locksmith in Attleborough technique, so they developed anti pick devices which are now an integral part of most cylinders, also an extra pin has been added to make the cylinder six pin rather than the old standard of five. This has increased the security of cylinders greatly but a good locksmith in Attleborough will overcome these measures.

A Lock Picking locksmith in Attleborough

When a locksmith in Attleborough comes across a mortice dead lock or a mortice sash lock it is a slightly different story, a simple two or three lever lock can be overcome with two bits of piano wire bent to form a tension wrench and the other to lift the levers into the right position (my preffered method). Other locksmith in Attleborough use jiggler keys. Jiggler keys are a set of keys which fit loosley into the keyway and then you quite litterally jiggle them until the lock opens, often there are eighteen or more keys to the set and you may or may not get the lock open. As a proffessional locksmith in Attleborough I have never used jiggler keys on a customers property, I consider them to be cheating but maybe I'm just old fashioned. The more levers inside a lock the more difficult for a locksmith in Attleborough it becomes to defeat the lock. The current British standard requires there to be a minimum of five levers and other measures like a hardened drill plate, twenty mm bolt throw and a box striker plate to name a few. Well a five lever lock is difficult to pick unless you practice a lot. PT Lock & Safe, locksmith in Attleborough put pride in their ability to pick this type of lock and boast very high success rates, there are of course some locks which are much harder to pick than others. Most locksmith in Attleborough struggle to pick The ERA Fortress lock, personally I have practiced picking this lock a lot and get excellent results. A different set of tools are required you can no longer get away with using piano wire for applying tension to the bolt now a special tension tool is required, when I first started picking British standard locks back in the eightys I made my own curtain pick from piano wire and it was very crude but effective. I would regularly pick union and Legge five lever locks. Things moved on and better picks became easily available through wholoesalers which made the whole process of picking these locks a lot easier for this locksmith in Attleborough.

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