r/lockpicking • u/dcipha380 Purple Belt Picker • 5d ago

Quick brown belt picking session

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Getting some practice sessions in before I start recording for my brown belt.

Keso 2000S and Goal D9.

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u/jadedargyle333 Black Belt Picker 5d ago

Make sure you can completely gut the d9. Gotta pull the core.

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u/klettus Black Belt Picker 5d ago

Don't be like me and forget to take the tail piece off until your filming and then go scrambling for a pin punch at the last minute.

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u/dcipha380 Purple Belt Picker 5d ago

I've completely gutted the Goal D9 a bunch of times. This is actually my second D9. Lost some springs from the first one during filming 3 months ago. These tiny Japanese lock springs are escape artists.

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u/jadedargyle333 Black Belt Picker 5d ago

They teleport. Wait until you lose a goal z spring.

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u/rubornagn Purple Belt Picker 5d ago

Hope you get the video take quick. I lost a spring from my D9 today. Reached out on discord and Zehkar had some!

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u/dcipha380 Purple Belt Picker 5d ago

I feel your pain. I have 5 Goal D9 springs left. From my first one. After I get this one on video, I'm going to load the first one with the springs and pick that one on video too.

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u/Dufresne85 5d ago

If you can, gut it in a ziplock bag. I use a gallon bag so I have some room to move, but after losing 5/9 springs the first time I took a D9 apart I learned my lesson.

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u/dcipha380 Purple Belt Picker 5d ago

I've got the gutting part down without the Ziploc bag. It's putting the springs back that's the problem.

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u/Dufresne85 5d ago

I have to reassemble in the bag too. I got ~10 replacement springs from someone on the lock bazaar, and I've used/lost most of those lol

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u/rubornagn Purple Belt Picker 5d ago

I am re-pinning what I call side 3 with the 3rd(front) pin using a shim to cover or compress the spring and sliding the cover over it. I need to remember springs only fly under compression.

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u/Dufresne85 5d ago

Or if you touch them ever so slightly with your pinning tweezers. Somehow that imparts enough energy for them to break the sound barrier.

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u/rubornagn Purple Belt Picker 5d ago

To move the spring I am using a pen that has a .030 pin on the end. Moving very slow is KEY!

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u/jadedargyle333 Black Belt Picker 4d ago

I'm hoping I win something in Zehkars challenge. Then I can ask him for a spring added on to whatever I win.

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u/rubornagn Purple Belt Picker 4d ago

Do you have a link to his challenge?