Oh my sweet lord. I'm watching this as I'm trying to pick mine. I've only got 9 pins inside and it's taking me just as long. I feel your pain and frustration man. I'm struggling so bad to figure this out. I am so so damn sick of it and I absolutely hate it.. You have really done an epic and impressive job picking this one. I was so happy for you when that core turned! Congratulations my friend! 🥰😍😘😘
Thank you! I'm so glad I recorded it even though I hadn't gotten a full open yet. I don't remember if it was Retep, Rein, or someone else, but their advice of "record everything" was on the money. Now I don't have to go through that hell a second time. 😆 It's crazy how just brushing a slider can change something. I haven't felt this confused by a lock since the Kodai. A slider could feel bound, but I knew it shouldn't go any farther so I wouldn't force it. I'd test all the others and they'd feel loose. Then I'd go back to the one that felt bound and now it's loose again, but when I check the others, one of them would feel bound. WTF? So just by testing one of the other pins, something shifted. Sometimes everything would feel loose and I would just round-robin until something felt different, being careful not to force something to happen. I also had to release tension to get some slight oversets back a number of times-not all the way into a false gate but slightly past a true one. I had to really back off on the pressure I used to test a pin. Nothing more that a light brush. Knowing how far each slider should go usually saved me from oversetting into a false gate, at least. This is one of those cases where I couldn't reliably trust what I felt (if I even felt anything) and had to rely on knowledge of the key. If I were blind picking it, I'd probably need weeks more practice (months?). It's crazy how different the two sides were. 8 minutes for one, and 1h 5m for the other.
I have to say, this lock was *tough*. The sliders acted liked tapered pins from hell. Most of the time I had to go by sound rather than feel.
Ow wow nice job 🎉😮
Very nice
Oh my sweet lord. I'm watching this as I'm trying to pick mine. I've only got 9 pins inside and it's taking me just as long. I feel your pain and frustration man. I'm struggling so bad to figure this out. I am so so damn sick of it and I absolutely hate it..
You have really done an epic and impressive job picking this one. I was so happy for you when that core turned! Congratulations my friend! 🥰😍😘😘
Thank you! I'm so glad I recorded it even though I hadn't gotten a full open yet. I don't remember if it was Retep, Rein, or someone else, but their advice of "record everything" was on the money. Now I don't have to go through that hell a second time. 😆 It's crazy how just brushing a slider can change something. I haven't felt this confused by a lock since the Kodai. A slider could feel bound, but I knew it shouldn't go any farther so I wouldn't force it. I'd test all the others and they'd feel loose. Then I'd go back to the one that felt bound and now it's loose again, but when I check the others, one of them would feel bound. WTF? So just by testing one of the other pins, something shifted. Sometimes everything would feel loose and I would just round-robin until something felt different, being careful not to force something to happen.
I also had to release tension to get some slight oversets back a number of times-not all the way into a false gate but slightly past a true one. I had to really back off on the pressure I used to test a pin. Nothing more that a light brush. Knowing how far each slider should go usually saved me from oversetting into a false gate, at least. This is one of those cases where I couldn't reliably trust what I felt (if I even felt anything) and had to rely on knowledge of the key. If I were blind picking it, I'd probably need weeks more practice (months?).
It's crazy how different the two sides were. 8 minutes for one, and 1h 5m for the other.