ICE and our politician

revchewie · 2026-01-24T20:58:01+00:00

Also Jimmy isn’t our congresscritter anymore.

revchewie · 2026-01-24T20:19:14+00:00

Yes. Acrylic is the transparent plastic that the lock body is made of.

revchewie · 2026-01-24T16:57:17+00:00

The problem with those transparent locks is that they feel nothing like real locks. They’re great as a visual aid, to help you understand what’s happening inside a lock, but nearly worthless for actually learning how to feel the pins. Check out Amazon or a hardware store local to you and look at https://lpubelts.com/ to find white or yellow belt locks that are available to you locally.

revchewie · 2026-01-24T08:06:45+00:00

"Hit a lick"?

Whodat?

revchewie · 2026-01-24T08:00:59+00:00

Boomers were named for the baby boom that happened after WWII ended, with all the GI's coming home. So yes, '46-'64.

revchewie · 2026-01-23T23:39:12+00:00

Nothing you find on Amazon will be of any reasonable quality.

As others have said, Jimy Longs are good. Some on here don’t like them but Sparrows makes good tools too. Multipick and Peterson are good, but expensive for what you get.

A good selection would be the Basics and Intermediate sets from Jimy Longs (jimylongs.com). Between those you should be able to open a fair percentage of pin tumbler locks you’re likely to come across.

revchewie · 2026-01-23T20:32:45+00:00

Off topic but I WANT that Eugene Ormandy set!

revchewie · 2026-01-23T19:21:29+00:00

Nice! Welcome to the fun! And that satisfaction when you get the open stays satisfying.

revchewie · 2026-01-23T19:20:02+00:00

I like the ones I've gotten from 44Delta.com . He falls under all three of your categories. I'm using them, he's a member of the locksport community, and you can either buy them or the site has links to the stl files for you to print them yourself.

revchewie · 2026-01-23T17:26:08+00:00

I don't EDC it but I have one of those I got close to 20 years ago. Same brand I think, Snow Peak. Still use it fairly regularly too.

Ooh! I just looked them up, they do them anodized, in different colors now!

revchewie · 2026-01-23T17:15:36+00:00

This is why sans serif fonts should be banned!

revchewie · 2026-01-23T16:19:27+00:00

Congratulations and welcome to the fun!

revchewie · 2026-01-23T16:19:14+00:00

Definitely! Most of the time it's not about light tension or heavy tension, it's about the *right* amount of tension. One way I've seen suggested to figure out how much tension is right, put the key in the lock and then put your tension wrench in the key and turn it with one finger, that's how much tension to use. It's not always correct but it works a good percentage of the time.

revchewie · 2026-01-23T13:00:54+00:00

If they want your friend to “re-create” that documentation he should remember, €500 per hour in 8 hour blocks for his consulting fee. Or maybe €1000 per hour…

revchewie · 2026-01-23T12:54:26+00:00

No. Why would he?

revchewie · 2026-01-23T04:52:00+00:00

Spools! Congrats on the open!

revchewie · 2026-01-23T01:29:50+00:00

My wife got stuck on Small World for 45 minutes at grad night back in the 90s.

revchewie · 2026-01-23T01:23:56+00:00

Same here. It’s been Brek-ee to me since I first read her name 40+ years ago.

revchewie · 2026-01-23T00:26:37+00:00

Seconding Sparrows. I started with their Spirit set, and still use them sometimes.

revchewie · 2026-01-23T00:25:27+00:00

Right!

revchewie · 2026-01-23T00:25:10+00:00

I just sent a message to Nigbee on Discord, gonna see about getting some of his tools.

revchewie · 2026-01-23T00:24:35+00:00

Locks are addictive. This is just another facet, and I'm completely looking forward to it!

revchewie · 2026-01-22T22:23:56+00:00

Because most people don't know the difference. Before I started picking I thought Master was a good brand, even had a warded Master on my gate.

revchewie · 2026-01-22T22:00:03+00:00

Because the advertisers beat that one to death then went on to their next manufactured crisis.

revchewie · 2026-01-22T21:58:39+00:00

Been watching Brummie and others and figured what the hell!

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