Pick Lock

Didn't know if this should go here, or General chat.

Well, as the title states, I want to know how to pick locks. Google didn't give me anything good, and my friend made me picks out of paper clips. Anyone know how?

I have practiced but my doors have crappy locks I can pick with a tooth pic

Lol. Well my friend claims that he can pick his sister's door's lock with his finger. Her lock must SUCK.

I used to be able to pick locks with my finger nails. But, that was when I had allowed my finger nails to grow REALLY long.

He doesn't have long nails at all. It has to be a really weak lock. Who could turn a lock with their hand?

This should help...

I guess that sorta helps. So I just have to press down all the pin things? So I could use paper clips to pick, right?

My friend's door has a lock that you simply turn on the inside of the door to lock. Her little sister is able to pick the lock using the end of a hanger. She sticks the end into the lock and shakes it back and forth to unlock it. Why are you trying to pick locks?

I don't know, it just sounds like a lot of fun. My friend is going to let me pick some of his locks.

He says there's two ways, picking and drilling. What's the difference?

All i know is that this is a proper lock pick:

Hmm, my picks are simple. Lol, they're just bent paper clips.

Heh heh, perhaps if Link just had a box of paper clips in LoZ then he wouldn't have had to risk killing himself for a single little key. Well, I wouldn't real know about picking locks. The last two houses that I've lived in (this one and the last one) had locks on most of the doors inside that you could unlock by putting a small-headed screwdriver into a small hole and then turning it a little bit. Of course, this is just in case you lock yourself out of your room. With the doors in my current house, you can even use forks on the doors! (Which I've had to do on several occasions in order to get my sister off the computer.)

I think the general aim is to apply pressure by rotating the cylinder (as you would with a key); the cylinder won't fully turn because the pins are all down, but it should turn a fraction of a millimetre, which is often enough so that if you reach in with a pick and gently push the pins up, the top sections catch on the 'ledge' you've created by rotating the cylinder, while the bottom sections fall back down.

So if you've only got paperclips, you'll want to bend one into a sort of hook shape for pushing the pins up, and find something that isn't a paperclip that's strong enough to turn the lock with, like a small spoon handle, piece of scrap metal or even a key.

(The tension wrench - the free-standing pick in PowerSaws' picture is designed for this very purpose).

I've got a floppy disk box where you can turn the outside of the lock with your hand to unlock it. I guess if you wanted to nick my DOS boot disks and Qbasic files, there wouldn't be much I could do.

Yay, today I picked a lock. w00t

Lol, OK it was a pretty crappy lock that was small, but i still picked it. Twice.

Now I have to pick more things. Yay.

Really all I did was stick a few paper clicps in aand wiglled them around.