Guide to Lock Picking

great tip Jared.

If you're looking for good picks, watch the gutters. The bristles from the street sweepers are perfect material for the pick piece. For the tension wrench, small flathead screwdrivers are usually fine.

We couldn't actually pick the lock so went around it. Having seen one of these guides before tried unsuccessfully to open a lock. It is hard to do without two specially designed metal strips, too much time so ...

At a summer job we used a screwdriver to carefully undo the hinges of the lock hasp to get access to park equipment, then carefully return everything.

Also you can use a comb or semi flexible printers ruler to get in some of the school type doors that have a panic bar inside ( it also works on many office type doors ). We did it for different school events to get in after they stopped letting people in at 9.

The screwdriver came in handy to use the phone also. The office phone had a lock on it so we unscrewed the phone jack at the wall box and put in our own phone from home to make local calls only which weren't recorded.
I did some custom work for a locksmith who said he invented a " pick" , showed me also, for all vending machines with the circular lock, quite ingenious.

That's a pretty good guide, if I remember correctly (I read it a long time ago) - it's helped me open many locks. At a previous employer, there was this one good projector that belonged to my boss (who was often out of town) and his assistant kept it locked in a cabinet or in a desk with a locking drawer. Whenever I would have to do presentations and she wasn't available to get it out for me I would pick the lock, use it for the presentation, and lock it back up afterwards.