MAKE pal Jason Striegel has a great interview and HOW TO from DEFCON on picking a dead-bolt…Here’s a quick and dirty deadbolt lock picking howto that’ll give you and your friends some cheap entertainment on a slow weekend afternoon. Link.
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The link provided responds with “http://www.blogcadre.com could not be found“. Is the link wrong? Or has the site been taken down?
Mike
Fat old biker
Sorry Michael, the link is right, but it looks like my server is smoked. Makezine is just too much linkage for it to handle, I guess
I should have it all back online soon. Sorry for the wait.
I use to make my own tools using spokes from trashed rims off of my 20″ BMX bike years back.
Take a spoke and with a heavy hammer start to flatten out 3 or 4 inches of it. Try not to make it waffer thin, just thin enough to fit into a lock nicely. Then used a bench top grinder to shape the flattened area to whatever shape I needed/wanted.
Put a round screw driver in a vise and bend the other end of the spoke around that to make a nice “U” shape and you have a handle on your tool. Wrap with tape if needed.
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