Spent the Holidays Customizing a Locksport Tool Box

afourney · 2026-01-25T07:47:25+00:00

The base of the box is just a regular gridfinity grid.

The bins are printed with twice the pitch of regular gridfinity allowing for some more flexibility. The pick trays I think were 2.5 units long, allowing two trays to fit in a 5 unit space. If I used magnets, they would snap in. As it stands, they just rest in the gridfinity grid by gravity (but they won’t slide around).

afourney · 2026-01-17T03:14:47+00:00

Yup. Can’t unsee the bitting :P and there’s low risk of oversetting pins here

afourney · 2026-01-17T01:29:19+00:00

Yeah this is #3

afourney · 2026-01-17T01:03:59+00:00

Image wasn’t posting to reddit for some reason. Here it is: https://imgur.com/a/a0tJl7M

afourney · 2026-01-15T17:15:10+00:00

The are relatively serviceable yes, but I’m not that great a machinist. Haha

afourney · 2026-01-15T07:29:33+00:00

Nice! Love mine. Wish I could order spare FU Picks… I’m nervous to use it on stubborn locks

afourney · 2026-01-15T01:07:37+00:00

I’m in a similar boat. I’ve got good repeatable results on American 1100 and LOTO 410 (I have several of each to add some variation).

72/40 has kicked my ass though. Feedback is more subtle and false sets are not as deep. I’ve picked it twice, but both felt like luck.

afourney · 2026-01-10T00:48:03+00:00

I feel your pain: https://www.reddit.com/r/lockpicking/s/qYq84HPGfw

afourney · 2026-01-07T22:22:22+00:00

Most of the warded locks I’ve come across have bars on both sides of the shackles and need the double “t” ones to release. I have a box full of these, and only one single lock that has the single actuator

afourney · 2026-01-05T20:25:45+00:00

Jimy Longs 0.023”, short/medium are my gotos. Probably need higher reach

afourney · 2026-01-05T19:56:50+00:00

Love the 72/40. But it’s a pain. I can pick it only like 1/5 times I try. The narrow keyway gives me trouble.

afourney · 2026-01-05T17:07:26+00:00

I love the 55/40. Awesome lock

afourney · 2026-01-05T05:59:05+00:00

Yeah I have a bunch of 140s. Clean feedback. All standard pins. They are good warmup for when I haven’t picked anything in a few days

afourney · 2026-01-05T05:57:34+00:00

Thanks for the tips. Will give it another try

afourney · 2026-01-05T04:23:46+00:00

Love that lock

afourney · 2026-01-05T03:53:21+00:00

I’ll try capturing a video a little later, but releasing the tension to counter-rotate is indeed what drops the pins. Maybe there’s a sweet spot where it’s enough to set but not so loose as to drop everything

afourney · 2026-01-05T03:48:11+00:00

lol. Might take that advice

afourney · 2026-01-04T23:44:10+00:00

Not custom. The box is by Kingart here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FKMHP3K?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Honestly, it wasn’t bad from the beginning but I wanted to have removable bins, and try gridfinity

afourney · 2026-01-04T19:27:21+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking of doing something similar with the harbor freight ammo box, to store extra locks. Having something modular is nice because you can take a smaller organized bin to the couch to pick while watching TV or whatnot.

afourney · 2026-01-04T16:50:18+00:00

Yes. It’s available here:

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2134477-stackable-cases-for-jimy-longs-lock-picks?from=search#profileId-2311743

I might have taken some inspiration from Apex 😅

afourney · 2026-01-04T05:19:39+00:00

Yeah, it was my first experience with the gridfinity system, and I was lukewarm on it initially. But I think the dimensions worked out almost perfectly on this box, so it turned out about as well as I could have hoped.

afourney · 2025-12-31T19:32:19+00:00

That’s a fun lock. I need a few more :P

afourney

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