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- How To Drill A Pin Tumbler Lock
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- Sometimes a malfunction in the lock will prevent it from being picked.
- Drilling a pin tumbler lock is a less destructive means of opening the lock
- without the key than forcing the cylinder. Almost any type of drill may be
- used, including a hand operated drill, but the small one-quarter-inch electric
- drill is faster. The bit size is not of great importance, but the small bit
- will make the task easier when using a hand drill. Normally a 1/16 to 1/32-inch
- twist steel drill bit will do the job.
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- Make the hole just above the lower tumbler pins near the shear line. Once the
- hole is drilled to approx- imately one and a half inches, take a tension wrench
- and turn the plug toward the unlocked position. If the plug refuses to turn,
- take a thin stiff section of wire and push the upper pins above the shear line
- to rotate the lock open.
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