[107] How To Pick A Wafer Lock

How To Pick Your First Wafer Lock and How They Work

This video goes in depth how wafer locks operate and how you can open them without the key. Wafer locks are commonly found and mostly used in lower security settings. They usually have low tolerances and are not too difficult to get open with the correct approach. Hopefully this video will leave you with a stronger understanding of how they work and how you can open one without the key.

Thank You to theboredlockpicker for pointing out that there is a difference between a Try-Out Key and an Auto Jiggler. Today, the terms seem to commonly get intertwined but there is a big difference.

A Try-Out Key you do not jiggle at all, it is essentially a pre-cut key and you just try one after the other hoping one will open the lock.

An Auto Jiggler is what was shown, they are used to more or less rake open the lock while applying tension.

I added these to the video to point out there existence and not to get into them specifically but I would like to convey accurate info on them.

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[louiswilber]

Out of all the "lock pick tutorials" yours are the most informative. Thank you for the knowledge and the start of a new skill.

[VincentWestberg]

(2024) This video taught me about wafer locks and different styles of picks. I was recently at Def Con and the lockpicking village ran out of the set I wanted. A co worker gave me all his spare picks, With this video I was able to pick a gun lock that I no longer have the key to. So my first picked lock was a double sided wafer lock. Thanks

[hamskoolie]

Thanks man. I bought a 40' skoolie and I'm trying to get the locks sorted. Had all but one opened as they weren't locked or were standard keys. Bought a $20 lock pick set from Amazon with three clear plastic pin locks and practiced MAYBE an hour total on those. Then watched this vid as the one in the bus is a wafer.
5-10 minutes after watching this vid I had the lock open.
THANKS, saved a bunch from the lock smith.

[foffingCh.]

This video was actually an incredible discovery for me! I’m a very new picker, like as of two weeks ago, when I was bored at the job I was working at. There were a few drawers with locks (the keys were there, and I was meant to be sorting through them, nothing criminal) so I looked up some basic lock picking tutorials, and make my own pick, rake, and tension wrench out of paper clips and with much effort managed to open two of them, the tension I needed to apply to actually turn the core was nearly too much for the wrench to handle and sometimes I couldn’t tell if I was actually turning it, or bending it, but I have spent the last few weeks of looking at pin picking videos wondering why the key pins look nothing like the weird boxy pins I had been wrangling, and I only just now discovered that they were waffers, and that I thought I was operating a completely different kind of lock! I had been trying to do things like feel out the “pins” and see if any were sticking, but in reality I’ve never picked the most common type! So in the end, I had quite a laugh at my own expense, and learned something new.

[jameyspielt]

thank you... i managed to open my old cheap safe with your help.. and i am a total noob on picking. thank you.

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Thank You to theboredlockpicker for pointing out that there is a difference between a Try-Out Key and an Auto Jiggler. Today, the terms seem to commonly get intertwined but there is a big difference.

A Try-Out Key you do not jiggle at all, it is essentially a pre-cut key and you just try one after the other hoping one will open the lock.

An Auto Jiggler is what was shown, they are used to more or less rake open the lock while applying tension.

I added these to the video to point out there existence and not to get into them specifically but I would like to convey accurate info on them.

[GogiRegion]

I just got a lock box for my room, and I wanted to make sure that if I lost the key I could still get into it, and this video was exactly what I needed for that!

[dustinfrancisblue]

Very articulate and superior explanation: Bravo!

[adonikam]

Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!!! You're a Awsome Picker and teacher!!!

[grosstravis]

Thanks for the tips. Not many videos on wafers. Cheers

[SightlessSenshi]

Great video, buddy. I haven't done too much with wafer locks yet, but I really want to get some more practice on those.

[dr.s.p.]

Wonderful instructional video. Thank you.

[victor]

Thank you for your very clear and comprehensive explanation. You have enhanced my understanding of wafer locks. Great video! Thanks again.

[seanditch]

Hi, thx for the video, If the keys have long since gone/ lost/broken/ how can you determine whether the wafer lock is a single or double sided lock? thx

[dlamb]

Great instruction! Do you have any tips/videos that dive deeper into picking a double sided wafer? how do you trigger both sides at the same time? you do one, and then the other...but doesn't the other side push back out when you switch to the other? how do you do both sides at once?

[chuck]

Thanks, was able to open a small stack-on gun safe that I lost to key too, and the batteries for the electronic lock died. I have started on regular pin picking, but hadn't tried a wafer lock before.

[DeetexSeraphine]

This helped me at work today, Thanks for sharing your insights!

[maxgiantbanana]

Funny thing happened to me, I failed to pick these locks, should I push the wafers or pull them? I don’t understand the meaning of “set it”…10:36

[paulvalley]

Thank you.
Just staring.
That was very helpful for me.
Looking for a vice, pin tables, tools and locks to start.
Found and old lock in the drawer and picked it open for the first time 3 days ago with a home grown pick and tensioner. 😊
Pretty pleased with myself and I think I found a new hobby.
Take care.

[natasfresas]

I lost the key to my motorcycle top case. Gonna improvise a lockpick and try tomorrow. I can't wait for a set or to buy a key so hopefully this works. Thanks for the information, I'm subscribing