These needles are held under tension with the use of the rotating collar.īelow the needles, but before the handle, there’s a washer that facilitates resetting the tubular lock pick. The parts of a tubular lock pick include independent needles that correspond with each independent pin stack. I suspect this is the case, as I’ve used an 8 pin tubular lock pick to pick “some” 7 pin tubular locks. Some tubular locks are even six pins and while I haven’t personally tried it, the 7 pin tubular lock pick should work on the 6 pin lock. Standard configurations for tubular lock picks are 7 pin, 8 pin and the less common 10 pin. When the key is inserted, those mapped heights align, causing the shear line to separate and allow the plug to turn from the outer shell (green in the diagram below.) The top center of the interior of a tubular key features a raised protrusion that aligns the key in it’s proper configuration to map to each pin-tumbler stack.
It also means that duplicating a tubular key requires different machinery. This binds the shear line and prevents the plug from turning (colored yellow in the diagrams.) The difference with a tubular key and a standard key is that instead of the cuts of a key, a tubular key has half-cylinder indentations with map to the height of the pin stack.
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This is also represented in the diagrams below as (red) key pins and (blue) driver pins.Įach complete pin stack is pushed with help from it’s spring towards the front of the lock. Only with a lot more effort.Īs you’ll notice in the photo of the tubular lock pick trainer above, you have the spring, key pins (red) and driver pins (gold). In fact, while the purpose of this post is to explain tubular lock picks, specifically built for picking tubular locks, they can also be picked with common single-pin picking. Also known as Ace locks, axial pin-tumbler locks and radial locks.Īll the features of a standard pin-tumbler lock are still there, just configured in a circular pattern rather than inline as standard pin-tumbler lock is. Tubular locks are very similar to pin and tumbler locks and are actually a tubular pin-tumbler lock. If you’re familiar with past discussions we’ve had on ITS, you’ll hopefully know what I mean when I refer to pin and tumbler locks, the kind you commonly find on your front door.
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