Darn... I’ll assemble locks in exchange for gummy bears. That’s a good deal. Even my favorite brand! PS- I remember when those locks were on eBay... they were a wicked good deal!
I never met LPL, or Bill - but I GUARANTEE you, they've forgot to put the clip on the back at some point in time.... Then they checked their work, and it falls apart in their hands. I've been in the game for 27 years, I do forget from time to time. Black clip on a black mat... A chameleon blending into it's natural territory.
I thought this was obvious, and I suppose it is to regular subscribers of this channel, but I never thought of the newer subscribers. Still, it's the entire premise of pin tumbler theory! (It's not like it's a Medeco Biaxial or ABUS with sidebars lol) As usual though, Bill takes even a simple question and turns it into quality content for the channel.
Your way of explaining how and why you do something is probably what got me picking. Haven't watched lately 'cause I get so tired of looking at your mug. Actually I've been moving so all of my subscriptions are back logged.
At first I was going to skip this video thinking "this is stupid, I know all this". I watched anyway and learned several tricks and tips in spite of my ego. Thank you Bill for taking the time to make this.
The first time I have ever shouted at RUclips Bill... repopulating number 5 in the bible i was shouting "Spring Bill, Spring Bill". How many others were doing that too? Thank you for showing us how to re-pin a core and bible.
I walked back into my shop today to another road tech testing a medeco key in a freshly pinned mortise and the cylinder is sticking really bad. He meticulously backs the key in and out a few times and after 2 or 3 minutes shakes the damn thing to discover the new apprentice forgot springs and a few top pins.
I wish I saw this video years ago when I was learning to reassemble locks. For a follower I used to use a .357( I think) bullet case for American and master locks😂
Great video Bill, I love that you took the time to point out the little "why"s and "how"s that people ask themselves while learning. This will definitely come in handy when I start building challenges.
This is what I do with my ASSA and ASEC, locks..I don't have a follower, but what I did use was a very skinny round lighter, which is the perfect size which I found on the road. It did have a leather casing around it. But I cut it off and it's the perfect fit..and I use tweezers, to put the springs, and pins bk in. And it's good fun..so Good job Bill..😉
Nice work Bill! Very informative, easy to follow, and instead of just showing the "do's" of lock (re)assembly, you show the "do not's" and the possible/common mistakes that can be made. Wish I had this video around when I began learning, would have made my life much easier!
Unbelievable timing I bought a couple of heavy-duty Lockwood padlocks for my garage yesterday and figured I would re-pin them with something nastier than stock but I've never done it before. Voila! A how-to video. Thank you sir!
16:30 "Do NOT put the screw!" I almost bricked my favourite lock once. I setup the core for "key retaining", slided the core in while the core was lock, but the padlock was open. I was about to put the screw, but I decided to give it a try first. I'm glad I did!
It might sound so intuitive, for most veterans of this art, but remember we all started somewhere. It's can be too easy to make a mistake when taking apart new locks for the first time. It's a brass obscured mystery inside there until it's open, and way too late. Maybe they didn't have a follower, took the core out, and everything went flying, and springing everywhere. I know I sure made a few bone-headed moves, definitely destroyed a few springs, and needed to pick my way out of a gutting once or twice. It's a bad feeling, that just hits you in the pit of your stomach. 👍 Thanks for covering this for beginning pickers, and newer subscribers. Just saying... I'd work for the juicy little bears too. Bonus pay.
First assembly video I've ever watched I pritty much just started dumping out pins just to see how they worked at a young age then started reassembling them just like a jigsaw puzzle for fun
Reminds me of trying to reassemble a carburetor. Except there was always a tiny screw or spring left over. I’m going to going save this video in case Mr. fumble fingers (me) ever decides to take apart a lock.
I love assembling lock cylinders! The only time I messed one up was when I was assembling a kik cylinder based on the key code given to me that had been written down in the reverse order. Boy was I glad to have a blank sc4 and a shim with me when I went to test it.
@@feirisWheel Would make a great destructive entry video with it.😏 Or just drill the core retaining screw type thing or replace the core entirely. Good luck with it 🤔
Thank you. I know I am late but this was an awesome video. I have already broken a few cores and need replacements. Between your vids and those of LPL I have learned a lot from when I was repo cars back in the 80s with a slide hammer and a screwdriver :( Some years back I locked myself out of my house and I basically defeated my first lock in a nondestructive manner. I have a really good memory. I took a piece of vinyl siding and made a makeshift key from memory to get into my house...it actually worked...since then I have tinkered with locks off and on as a hobby. I have always been able to get into cars... I only do it now to help people that have locked their keys inside...it's kinda like I am hoping someone locks themselves out...it's a game almost. I want them to get into their car...but in some way...it's like a puzzle to be solved. I have locks at home I challenge myself with. Now, I want to learn to rebuild the broken ones. So I can open them! Thanks again sir!!!
i could of used this video last year. i was just starting and was wanted to check out the core of an abus and it all feel apart, the hardest part was trying to put the ball bearings back in. i take that back the hardest part was finding all the pins that fell. it was a long day
Very informative, not new info for me though. I figured out this bit at age 16 when I started messing with locks. Now 30+ years later I see you doing it. Should be helpful to newbies. As always good content from Bill. Thank you, sir, I have learned a lot from you over the last few years. And I am a locksmith. FYI I'm working on a challenge lock for you, something you may not have seen before. I hope to have it finished soon.
I will have to keep this one bookmarked, I am pretty sure I am capable of making several mistakes if I ever try my hands on disassembling locks and putting them back together.
@Bosnianbill, Word of warning about gummy bears, especially Haribo; this only hearsay, but I've read TOO much comments and reviews saying to always AVOID "sugar free" gummy bears. If what I have almost universally read is true, many people can use "sugar free" gummy bears as a laxative substitute. Just 2 to 4 pieces is suppose to be effective.
Wow, this I am sure is just common sense to you and most but I must admit I had no idea this was that simple. I have the two sets of beginner locks from Sparrows and ordered the pinning set but have been afraid to change them, not any more. Thank you.
Thank you Bill for showing the "Don't do this", not just the do this. Its much easier to recognize a mistake once shown. "American energy pills" - Male M&Ms are better.
Added trick (so that you don't pull a 'Bill') populate the Bible with all the springs first so that you don't have to try to dig a pin out of the bottom of a hole. Pins love to get jammed in the top of a Bible for some fanned reason...
Good informative video ! Nice to see something a little different from the picking and strip down . Keep up the great work and all the best from Bonnie Scotland !
Long time viewer, first time comment. Thanks so much Bill. This was a great tutorial as always! Always wondered ho they went back together, Would be cool to see a lock repinned and how you cut the key. Thanks Again!!
Great vid, Bill. At first I wondered if I was watching lock picking or pro wrestling. Next I wondered how many picks were injured in the making of this video. About the eight minute mark I started rooting, cheering and moaning for you. After that I had a play by play sports commentary going on in my head. Thank you.
I know you don't like using them but if the lock has a "T" pin and you don't use a shim it will get stuck in the groove for the C- clip. Just a thought to mention.
Me too...or a half inch dowel with the end shaped to fit the actuator....then I made a trade with the owner of Sparrows. I gave him some money and he gave me a set of followers.
Theres still a ball bearing from an Abus that was my first teardown (3 days ago, I'm new at this) somewhere on the floor at work. even on a smooth concrete floor i cant find him. Oh well, lock still works for my needs of picking it. (Abus 72/30 for those that care, Its a fun little pocket sized lock, no spring tension, and is a pretty good deal for something easily portable, try to avoid the WIDE OPEN "ABUS" keyway ones)
Some brands, e.g. Best interchangeable cores, choose driver pins so that each column's pin stack has the same overall length. There are at least two reasons for doing this, "left as an exercise for the student".
Great job, Bill. I enjoyed this. I'd love to see you re-pin a challenge lock with alien technology. Hear your thought process on how to choose and order the pins and springs. Thanks for sharing.
At 13:50, along with the warning of "don't pull too hard on the key" should also include the warning: "DO NOT ROTATE THE CORE 180 DEGREES." People that are familiar with Schlage-type cores, that don't have all the holes in the bottom often make this mistake the first time they mess with an American-type core, because it doesn't occur to them. The key pins fall out the bottom, and the driver pins shoot down into the groove at the bottom of the keyway.
Thanks for this video. I had an issue (read disaster) with a core that had no flat sides and i bent a load of springs. The core was kind of ribbed and I wasn't sure how to repin the drivers.
I like the sudo mistakes, make me feel a little less inclined to think I have no skill at this. Noting to keep retrying the key is also good as I probably would lock myself out because I would not have thought about it once the coordinator was reassembled. Lock put back together and the key will not fit back in the keyway.....
That looks like my life. Can you put me back together? All parts Not included. =\ Dark Chocolate peanut M&M's, have they been 'invented' yet? Thanks Bob! Sorry about your Lock; Glad you sent this in! My missing parts just became irrelevant; I know something now. W0W! =]
Second! (I’m starting a trend...) This was actually really useful and I liked the near reverse gutting disaster. I was literally yelling at my screen 🙂
Two things I’d of done differently would have been pulled the actuator and lubricant it, then install into the body, and since you had a nice collection of anti bypass plates, installed a bypass plate. Not a bad looking American padlock clone.
Gunga Dinn these cant be bypassed the actuator is horizontal to the key. The American design has the actuator parallel to the actuator and can be bypassed.
I went one better.. Bought a core and when it came turned the key all the way round saw the pins drop out the bottom but carried on.. Now the Key's stuck and I need to buy some shims to try and fix the mess..
They can go either way but I usually put the sharp end towards the key pin. If there's more than one like that, I alternate them to mix things up a bit.
Darn... I’ll assemble locks in exchange for gummy bears. That’s a good deal. Even my favorite brand!
PS- I remember when those locks were on eBay... they were a wicked good deal!
Have you tried the sugar free variety?
😈 😂
Crazy talk!
You mean the explosively laxative ones? 😆
@@ei96byod ask la beast about those
Thanks for the tip. I immediately went there and watched it.
Hilarious! 😆
I never met LPL, or Bill - but I GUARANTEE you, they've forgot to put the clip on the back at some point in time.... Then they checked their work, and it falls apart in their hands. I've been in the game for 27 years, I do forget from time to time. Black clip on a black mat... A chameleon blending into it's natural territory.
I thought this was obvious, and I suppose it is to regular subscribers of this channel, but I never thought of the newer subscribers. Still, it's the entire premise of pin tumbler theory! (It's not like it's a Medeco Biaxial or ABUS with sidebars lol) As usual though, Bill takes even a simple question and turns it into quality content for the channel.
Christopher Hendrix haha, just watched this and saw your comment. Same reaction.. really?!? Then it dawned on me, this really isn’t common knowledge.
@@KraXed112 Thanks fellas! I often forget myself how mystified I was about putting locks together until someone took the time to show me.
Your way of explaining how and why you do something is probably what got me picking. Haven't watched lately 'cause I get so tired of looking at your mug. Actually I've been moving so all of my subscriptions are back logged.
At first I was going to skip this video thinking "this is stupid, I know all this". I watched anyway and learned several tricks and tips in spite of my ego. Thank you Bill for taking the time to make this.
The first time I have ever shouted at RUclips Bill... repopulating number 5 in the bible i was shouting "Spring Bill, Spring Bill". How many others were doing that too?
Thank you for showing us how to re-pin a core and bible.
I walked back into my shop today to another road tech testing a medeco key in a freshly pinned mortise and the cylinder is sticking really bad. He meticulously backs the key in and out a few times and after 2 or 3 minutes shakes the damn thing to discover the new apprentice forgot springs and a few top pins.
I’d be very tempted to put all six springs in first and *then* start using the follower.
Thanks for an excellent tutorial which could save many of us from a terrible situation.
As a new beginner lock picker, this video was tremendously helpful. Thank you!
I wish I saw this video years ago when I was learning to reassemble locks. For a follower I used to use a .357( I think) bullet case for American and master locks😂
Lol the energy pills part about his sistets kid! 10/10 have don similar stuff haha 😂
Great video Bill, I love that you took the time to point out the little "why"s and "how"s that people ask themselves while learning.
This will definitely come in handy when I start building challenges.
This is what I do with my ASSA and ASEC, locks..I don't have a follower, but what I did use was a very skinny round lighter, which is the perfect size which I found on the road. It did have a leather casing around it. But I cut it off and it's the perfect fit..and I use tweezers, to put the springs, and pins bk in. And it's good fun..so Good job Bill..😉
Really enjoyed the lock assembly Bill. Would be great to see some different ones assembled.
Nice work Bill! Very informative, easy to follow, and instead of just showing the "do's" of lock (re)assembly, you show the "do not's" and the possible/common mistakes that can be made. Wish I had this video around when I began learning, would have made my life much easier!
Thanks Mr Bill,I’m no lockpicker but I do collect locks as a hobbt of mine.
Unbelievable timing I bought a couple of heavy-duty Lockwood padlocks for my garage yesterday and figured I would re-pin them with something nastier than stock but I've never done it before. Voila! A how-to video. Thank you sir!
If you have a lock but no key, you can use the same kind of idea to file a blank to fit the lock. Done that with a Ruko 500.
16:30 "Do NOT put the screw!"
I almost bricked my favourite lock once. I setup the core for "key retaining", slided the core in while the core was lock, but the padlock was open. I was about to put the screw, but I decided to give it a try first. I'm glad I did!
It might sound so intuitive, for most veterans of this art, but remember we all started somewhere. It's can be too easy to make a mistake when taking apart new locks for the first time. It's a brass obscured mystery inside there until it's open, and way too late. Maybe they didn't have a follower, took the core out, and everything went flying, and springing everywhere. I know I sure made a few bone-headed moves, definitely destroyed a few springs, and needed to pick my way out of a gutting once or twice. It's a bad feeling, that just hits you in the pit of your stomach.
👍 Thanks for covering this for beginning pickers, and newer subscribers.
Just saying... I'd work for the juicy little bears too. Bonus pay.
First assembly video I've ever watched I pritty much just started dumping out pins just to see how they worked at a young age then started reassembling them just like a jigsaw puzzle for fun
Reminds me of trying to reassemble a carburetor. Except there was always a tiny screw or spring left over. I’m going to going save this video in case Mr. fumble fingers (me) ever decides to take apart a lock.
THIS, good sir, is the best video to date. I never knew how to do this. Thank you!
Awesome video. Super informative for us newer followers.
Good timing. I just got my sparrows reload kit and some security pins! Thanks
I love assembling lock cylinders! The only time I messed one up was when I was assembling a kik cylinder based on the key code given to me that had been written down in the reverse order. Boy was I glad to have a blank sc4 and a shim with me when I went to test it.
Although I already know how to do this I had to rate it up as Bill explains it so well. Keep up the sterling work.
Excellent video I think we all have one of these locks in a bag when we start lock picking
I have an Abus 83AL/45 that I forgot to put the tail piece back on after repining it. Now it is forever locked :(
@@feirisWheel
Would make a great destructive entry video with it.😏 Or just drill the core retaining screw type thing or replace the core entirely.
Good luck with it 🤔
Mine is an SFIC, so it's gonna stay in the bag forever lol
WARNING: don't take apart SFIC/LFIC cores
Thanks, this is a really Reassuring video, Always wondered what to do once you had all those pieces to put it back properly
What an excellent teaching video! Many of those tips I learned the hard way so it was good to see coming from you in this forum.
Thank you. I know I am late but this was an awesome video. I have already broken a few cores and need replacements. Between your vids and those of LPL I have learned a lot from when I was repo cars back in the 80s with a slide hammer and a screwdriver :( Some years back I locked myself out of my house and I basically defeated my first lock in a nondestructive manner. I have a really good memory. I took a piece of vinyl siding and made a makeshift key from memory to get into my house...it actually worked...since then I have tinkered with locks off and on as a hobby. I have always been able to get into cars... I only do it now to help people that have locked their keys inside...it's kinda like I am hoping someone locks themselves out...it's a game almost. I want them to get into their car...but in some way...it's like a puzzle to be solved. I have locks at home I challenge myself with. Now, I want to learn to rebuild the broken ones. So I can open them! Thanks again sir!!!
Bill, great video, thank you for sharing your priceless knowledge and lockpicking skills, just awesome!
Very helpful visual on the false set. Ordered my first lockpick set from Sparrows. Can't wait to start!!
i could of used this video last year. i was just starting and was wanted to check out the core of an abus and it all feel apart, the hardest part was trying to put the ball bearings back in. i take that back the hardest part was finding all the pins that fell. it was a long day
...and da lock she say, "Oh Bill! You do dat like you do it befo!"
I hear thus in a Cajun accent!
you can shim the follower too lol saves some problems if reassembling uneven cors and t pins .
@Bosnianbill - Thanks! Good refresher. Best wishes to you and yours! And the rest of the locksport community, you rock!
Good video, Bill. Especially for a newbie like me.
Thank you for making this video. You explained everything well and made it look easy.
Very informative, not new info for me though. I figured out this bit at age 16 when I started messing with locks. Now 30+ years later I see you doing it. Should be helpful to newbies. As always good content from Bill. Thank you, sir, I have learned a lot from you over the last few years. And I am a locksmith. FYI I'm working on a challenge lock for you, something you may not have seen before. I hope to have it finished soon.
Nice video Mr Bill. Wish you had of done this video back when I first started lol 😂. Still good video for beginners. Stay safe 👍👍👍🤘🤘🤘🖖🍻🖖
I learned a lot ! Thanks for the video Bill !
Thanks Bill this answered so many questions ive been wanting to ask. have a great day
Don't do the Sugar Free Hasbro from Canada if you don't have an outhouse at the ready, lol. As an aside, moar of these videos, this rocks
Great video sir! Noobs like me really get good information from these types of videos.
I will have to keep this one bookmarked, I am pretty sure I am capable of making several mistakes if I ever try my hands on disassembling locks and putting them back together.
@Bosnianbill, Word of warning about gummy bears, especially Haribo; this only hearsay, but I've read TOO much comments and reviews saying to always AVOID "sugar free" gummy bears. If what I have almost universally read is true, many people can use "sugar free" gummy bears as a laxative substitute. Just 2 to 4 pieces is suppose to be effective.
Great Video... Thanks for taking the time to show us ALL
Wow, this I am sure is just common sense to you and most but I must admit I had no idea this was that simple. I have the two sets of beginner locks from Sparrows and ordered the pinning set but have been afraid to change them, not any more. Thank you.
Fantastic video Bill, as I'm relatively new to this, I've found both yours and LPL's videos to be very informative.
Thank you Bill for showing the "Don't do this", not just the do this. Its much easier to recognize a mistake once shown.
"American energy pills" - Male M&Ms are better.
That was pleasure to watch.
Nice reassemble
Nice change of pace video.
Added trick (so that you don't pull a 'Bill') populate the Bible with all the springs first so that you don't have to try to dig a pin out of the bottom of a hole. Pins love to get jammed in the top of a Bible for some fanned reason...
nicely done bob
Nice Job!
Good informative video ! Nice to see something a little different from the picking and strip down . Keep up the great work and all the best from Bonnie Scotland !
Finally !!! An assembly . Thanks
Long time viewer, first time comment. Thanks so much Bill. This was a great tutorial as always! Always wondered ho they went back together, Would be cool to see a lock repinned and how you cut the key. Thanks Again!!
Great vid, Bill. At first I wondered if I was watching lock picking or pro wrestling. Next I wondered how many picks were injured in the making of this video. About the eight minute mark I started rooting, cheering and moaning for you. After that I had a play by play sports commentary going on in my head. Thank you.
Wow, this was truly a pretty interesting video for me. I certainly did learn a lot today. Thanks for taking your time to make this video bill!
I know you don't like using them but if the lock has a "T" pin and you don't use a shim it will get stuck in the groove for the C- clip. Just a thought to mention.
Thank you Bill.
That lesson was definitely worth a pack of Gummi Bears.
Really good video. Thank you.
I remember starting out using a AAA battery as a follower!
Me too...or a half inch dowel with the end shaped to fit the actuator....then I made a trade with the owner of Sparrows. I gave him some money and he gave me a set of followers.
Great video brother and Great information Bill
Theres still a ball bearing from an Abus that was my first teardown (3 days ago, I'm new at this) somewhere on the floor at work. even on a smooth concrete floor i cant find him. Oh well, lock still works for my needs of picking it. (Abus 72/30 for those that care, Its a fun little pocket sized lock, no spring tension, and is a pretty good deal for something easily portable, try to avoid the WIDE OPEN "ABUS" keyway ones)
Some brands, e.g. Best interchangeable cores, choose driver pins so that each column's pin stack has the same overall length. There are at least two reasons for doing this, "left as an exercise for the student".
I didnt have a follower until recently, i woukd just use the loaded core in a very delicate dance of reassembly
I enjoy the how to videos!
Bill, they got with me and are shipping me the Flat 5 today.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching the reassembling of this lock, nice one Bill ;-)
Oh what us men will do for a packet of Haribo gums Lol
Who else was yelling "Spring, spring!" on chamber 5?
good job
Great job, Bill. I enjoyed this. I'd love to see you re-pin a challenge lock with alien technology. Hear your thought process on how to choose and order the pins and springs.
Thanks for sharing.
At 13:50, along with the warning of "don't pull too hard on the key" should also include the warning: "DO NOT ROTATE THE CORE 180 DEGREES." People that are familiar with Schlage-type cores, that don't have all the holes in the bottom often make this mistake the first time they mess with an American-type core, because it doesn't occur to them. The key pins fall out the bottom, and the driver pins shoot down into the groove at the bottom of the keyway.
Thanks for this video. I had an issue (read disaster) with a core that had no flat sides and i bent a load of springs. The core was kind of ribbed and I wasn't sure how to repin the drivers.
Shim the heck out of that one.
@@davemcdaniel4856 where do you get the shims?
Sparrows, learnlockpicking, pickpals,etc all have them.
@@davemcdaniel4856 thank you :)
@@forric23 One could get some from a security tag from a DVD
I like the sudo mistakes, make me feel a little less inclined to think I have no skill at this. Noting to keep retrying the key is also good as I probably would lock myself out because I would not have thought about it once the coordinator was reassembled. Lock put back together and the key will not fit back in the keyway.....
Great tip re the energy pills!😆✌
That looks like my life. Can you put me back together? All parts Not included. =\ Dark Chocolate peanut M&M's, have they been 'invented' yet?
Thanks Bob! Sorry about your Lock; Glad you sent this in! My missing parts just became irrelevant; I know something now. W0W! =]
finally! an EP-PICK (epic) video! Very nice re-assembly. Very informative.
nicely done.
that was awesome thank you!!
Good video as usual.. A+
Let's get his out on a tray
Nice
Second! (I’m starting a trend...)
This was actually really useful and I liked the near reverse gutting disaster. I was literally yelling at my screen 🙂
Two things I’d of done differently would have been pulled the actuator and lubricant it, then install into the body, and since you had a nice collection of anti bypass plates, installed a bypass plate.
Not a bad looking American padlock clone.
Gunga Dinn these cant be bypassed the actuator is horizontal to the key. The American design has the actuator parallel to the actuator and can be bypassed.
Interesting
Got the same problem, same lock and same condition.
I went one better.. Bought a core and when it came turned the key all the way round saw the pins drop out the bottom but carried on.. Now the Key's stuck and I need to buy some shims to try and fix the mess..
**RECORD SCRATCH** Wait, did you just say "Goomie bears"? lol, haven't heard one before.
Man I love some spoil pins I can’t stand the serrated. Ild be happy as fuck to pick 1/10 as well as Bill an LPL
Now you should "IMPROVE" the lock make a vid of it and then send it back!
A slightly increased diameter of the housing, then a sleeve around the cylinder that catches the spools.
I was thinking he should send a few extra serrated or mushroom pins back with it.
Thanks Bill ,can you do one with a master lock no.1 because I tried but failed .thanks
Wow
Great video as usual, although I'll admit to being just a little disappointed in Bob for not figuring out how to put his own lock back together.
Hey man, do you have any connection with Bosnia? Your channel is amazing btw!
What about when you have spools with a fat end and a thin end? What side goes towards the spring then?
They can go either way but I usually put the sharp end towards the key pin. If there's more than one like that, I alternate them to mix things up a bit.
I'm a simple man. I see Haribo Goldbären, I click "Like".