Vintage American Lock Picked

Which picker doesn’t like an American Lock padlock? I can’t say I know any, such great locks to pick! 😃👍🔐

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[LockNoob]

Which picker doesn’t like an American Lock padlock? I can’t say I know any, such great locks to pick! 😃👍🔐

[bradw]

Very cool old American there! Just something about those old brass locks I enjoy so much.. thanks for sharing, and excellent picking! 👍🏻

[Leonslockpad]

Very cool vintage American lock Ash my friend awesome video as usual nice job😎😊🇬🇧👊👍🤟

[geoffowen]

Good picking as always, always enjoy American locks, superb video, thank you

[waynejoynes]

Nice lock Ash. Love watching your tension hand. Think thats the difference between good and great.👍

[chriscapune]

Great Old American!!!!
Well picked 😀👏👏👏
Stay safe my friend
🐾🐈🐾👍😷

[maureenswallow]

The whole vid Was a joy to watch, a tricky pin one can be a real pain
sometimes but you mastered the pin well, well done, billbo.

[jamaljackson]

Oh wow! I was just trying to pick one of these exact type of vintage American Locks that I own but for which I lost the keys long ago. I just started picking locks a week ago and just today managed to successfully pick several locks for the first time, but I spent about one hour trying to pick this particular lock unsuccessfully because it was behaving EXACTLY like the lock in this video. It has two very shallow set pins, I guess called Zero Setting and I did manage to set the pins into a false set 3 times, which gave me a partial rotation but after that I could not push any pins up and I also would get some noticeable counter rotation but I did not know what exactly to do with that so I would just reset the lock and try again. Now I see I need to further manually counter rotate and push the falsely set pin or pins up, which I also believe happens to be pin #1 on my lock as well. Watching this video makes me think that these locks might just work that way from the factory, which is cool because it makes them slightly harder to pick and thus more challenging and secure than say a laminated Master Lock, which seem very straightforward to pick.

[angryhbbt]

That was some massive counter rotation on that last pin. Well done!

[lmars]

Beautiful old America lock nice spp'd my friend. Nice of thumper to send it your way 😎

[DonzLockz]

Lovely old lock. It looks like it's had a long life.✌😎

[roerbeast]

Enjoyed this video! Nice vintage American from Thumper. Great pick.

[Dnice]

I have a couple of these in my collection and always have issues picking them

[lokichoki_]

I've got one that spp's perfectly it goes from 5 to 1 with satisfying snicks its what ill use to teach spp

[roysammons]

I was eating a piece of Victoria Sponge whilst watching and that little fight with pin 1 got me so intrigued I paused eating for several seconds willing it to open. Finally I can eat the cake.
Great little American lock and wonderful talked through demonstration in picking it.

[abdelazizbouhdide]

Merci mon ami im lerarning a lot from your vdos thank you verry so mutch amigo 👍👍👍👍👍👍🍺🍺

[parapicktog]

Is that a removable core? I for one would love to see what's inside.

[ParkTheSnark]

Huge click out of one. I think that’s the problem I have with a lock I’ve been dealing with. Going to try that method. Ty!

[metalbuggy]

After picking, can you close it without the key?
Do you just rotate the core?

[dustanmorrow]

Ok. So this is an old video now, but I have a question that needs answered…. Is this lock bypassable? If so which methods American lock bypass tool, shimming, other? Hopefully you have this still and can answer my question. Love you videos brother