If its the same it'll have serrated key pins and various security pins. I'm so bad at putting them back together. I ruined my first 1100. Its jammed and I can't get the key out. 🤣🤣

Nice! I have a 5200 (same core, I think) and it was a pain. It's so easy to overset. I haven't pulled it apart to see what it's got for pins.

Hey congrats! I have a couple of these that I haven't tried since I bought them. My attempts at establishing a local lockpicking group have fizzled, but you've inspired me to try this lock again :)

Fuck, I gotta get back in lockpicking

Do it buddy! Hit me up if you do and Ill help you best I can

Thats cool to know. Might have to buy one. I'd love to say i could pick that a well.

I think that's why its considered a milestone lock. Hence why I was excited! I don't participate in the LPU belts but I guess this is a milestone lock in the community.

That's devious

Oooh, I didn't know there was a lockpicking comm here! I've never tried it but it seems like fun

Congrats on the victory! ☺️

I'm also pretty new if you want to discuss things hit me up. My schedule is pretty bad but I'd make time to chat if possible.

Serrated key pins and various security pins.

I'm very new to the hobby. What made this lock difficult? Does it have a few false set pins?

Thanks! What a great hobby. I should have gotten into it years ago!

Ayyeee, congrats!!

Thanks for calling this out. I’m a bit tired of it as well. Seems that after Bosnian Bill retired he went hardcore commercial. Guess it’s one of the prices (and benefits?) of being popular.

Since he’s not lawyering anymore maybe it could just be lockpockingadvertiser instead?

Nice!

He found an exploit in a lock and documented it on video.

It's an honest-to-goodness, pre-covertinstruments-dot-com-stylee LPL video that talks about locks for the sake of locks. He didn't even mention that he sells the Lishi tool he used! Can you believe it? Just like in the old days.

He sure didn't come up with that. I remember hearing that in the 80s at least.

He mostly does pretty short videos, and tends to demo the tools he sells a lot. I don't think its quite as bad as it sounds, and it's probably as much just changing trends on YouTube as it is a shift to self promotion, but I do miss his older long videos.

At least the tools his company sells are legitimately very good.

I haven't watched him in years, but I'm scared of knowing what happened 🥹

The magic of buying two of them is escaping Alec's channel

Oh wow! A LPL video with actual meat on the bone that's not just a pretext to plug his store. It's been a few years...

I think it might be beyond repair.

yes, this seems to be the answer

being the genius that I am 😁 , I imagined that I would just put the driver pin on top of the key pin, put the spring on top of that, and then compress everything as I slid the cylinder in. It's obvious to me now how that is impossible, but it took me actually seeing it to understand. The picture on the left below shows how hilariously far off I was in my thinking.

So I instead put the spring into the lock body, then balanced the driver pin on top of that, which is what you can see in the picture on the right. While putting all of the springs back in would be fairly easy (having not actually tried it of course!), that driver pin is barely hanging on there. I could probably do one, specifically that very first one, but I doubt you could manage to compress all of them and then slide in the cylinder.

At least I am learning more about how everything works, and in the picture on the left below, I think I figured out which order the pins go, or at least got really close. I'm pretty sure there were only 4 key pins, assuming the fifth spring paired with the retaining pin.

On the right pictures, you can see the inserted 6 pin comb that I used to create this fine piece of deconstruction. It seems like that pin sticking out at the far left (#6 in my original picture) could have been responsible for my problems. I guess one of my lessons learned is to know how many pins there are, and then use a comb with a matching number of pins or less.

Let me know if there's anything else to try, or if anyone wants a picture of something specific.

FYI this specific lock came in a set of 4, the Master Lock 140Q, purchased in December 2016 from Amazon.

Probably not an easy repair. Could you use a thin shim to keep the springs and driver pins in the body, with the key pins in the bible? May need to have the bible at the right angle and most of the way pushed home. If the springs aren't too strong, it may just work. - doubt you can break it much more.

Alternatively, drill out the plugs in the body and tap the holes for grub screws, then you can repin it easily.

Thanks for the tips, I'll try out a few things later today.