From: mccaugha@duncan.cs.utk.edu (William Douglas ( Doug ) - The Juggler ( me ) McCaughan)
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Subject: Re: Forcing locks (was Re: Mushroom pins)
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:40:31 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennesee, Knoxville
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Reply-To: mccaugha@duncan.cs.utk.edu (William Douglas ( Doug ) - The Juggler ( me ) McCaughan)
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In article <55cp02j2cdox00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr14.212537.25749@cco.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
|> >In article <1992Apr14.165823.29478@cs.yale.edu>, yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (Norman Yarvin) writes:
|> >>I wondered one time if it was possible to, by applying enough force, just
|> >>shear the pins of a pin tumbler lock apart.  The pins, I reasoned, are made
|> 
|> >It would work.  The campus locksmith shop has what those of us who have seen it
|> >in action refer to as the "B&G master."  It's a two-foot piece of metal with a
|> >piece of steel thin enough to fit into a keyway, but still pretty damned strong
|> >welded onto the end of it.  Insert it into the keyway and twist, and the lock's
|> >open.
|> 
|> In a couple of movies I've seen car trunks opened with a yard-long rod that
|> gets jammed into the trunk lock and yanked.  The result is that the entire
|> lock gets pulled out.

I believe that is some kind of lock puller. They do exist. I have seen reference
to them being used on the cylinder locks on the steering column of cars.

Several years ago my family was vacactioning through the Smokies and we happened
across an officer (off duty) who was sullenly standing around his car. Apparently
someone had come along, simply placed a screw driver on the lock of the truck,
and slammed it with a hammer permitting him access. Quite destructive.

I also heard about a kid who got caught for stealing cars in NY for some chop
shop that apparently was doing quite a international business. If your car was
stolen, it was shipped out within 24hrs. Anyhow, the kid apparently was used
on a television interview or something about autotheft. He claimed he could steal
any car in 30 secs and all he needed was a screwdriver. So, some autocompany
fixed up a car that "could not be broken into." When presented to the kid the
screwdriver came out, was placed against the door lock, slammed with his hand,
he was in the car, busted the plastic around the steering column, the screwdriver
broke the rod that keeps the wheel locked and also became the key for starting the
engine. Sure enough, the kid had the car running in less that 30 secs. Oh,
apparently when they were taking him back to Juvenille (sp?) Lockup, he escaped.

|> Does this kind of thing exist in the Real World?  Would it work on cheap
|> door locks?  Seems a pretty fast (but destructive) way to get something
|> opened.
|> 
|> -- 
|> fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
|> [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]

-- 
...doug <mccaugha@cs.utk.edu> USA    | The past 22 years have been a |
                                     | helluva trip, but honestly, I |
                                     | am ready to come down now...  |



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