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Since lock-picking tends to be technical, it helps to know the jargon associated with it. This diagram of the parts of a lock should give you reference if you get confused about any of the words being used.
The first step you need to accomplish is slipping the tension wrench into the bottom of the lock, where the base of the key would go.
Once the wrench is in, you should apply slight – emphasis here on slight – pressure to the wrench. Usually you want to use your off-hand to do this. If you’re right-handed, apply pressure with your left. If left-handed, apply with the right. You should be attempting to turn the tension wrench the same way you would a key if you had a key for the lock. The point of this is to allow the pins that hold the lock closed to catch when you pick them. Without pressure, they just drop back into place, leaving the lock closed.
Here’s where the rake or rakes come into play. You carefully insert your rake into the lock just above the tension wrench until it reaches the back of the lock. Then, you move it back toward you while pressing it gently upward toward the top of the lock. What you are doing is pushing the internal pins up, trying to get them to line up the way they would with a key.
If you have the proper tension – not too much, not too little – on the lock, when a pin is lifted properly, it will catch on the lock and hold.
This process of inserting the rake and moving it back and forth through the lock is called “scrubbing” and is usually all that is required to get most locks to open.
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