You may have heard of people opening a door with a credit card.
Pick door lock with paper clips.
Keep doing this until you have 3 ridges in the paper clip.
Picking your lock 1.
Then you take that loop paperclip tool out and insert the picking tool that you have bent to a 45 degree angle and rake it across your pins until you see hear them come up.
Well you can usually do.
You will hear the pins clicking.
You will know when you have picked the lock when the hooked clip turns easily.
With your jerry rigged lock picking set you re ready to pick your tumbler lock.
This can be a bit hard to do if you re not sure which way it.
The bottom of the keyhole is called the shear line.
Insert pick into the upper part of keyhole and.
How to pick simple locks latches with a paper clip step 1.
Turn the wrench in the direction that the lock turns.
Move the pliers down on the long part of the paper clip and bend again at 90 degrees.
Pinch the end of the paper clip with the pliers and bend the long part 90 degrees to form the first ridge in the rake.
Then you just insert your loop tool again and turn very gently until the lock magically pop open.
To push all the pins up lift the straightened paper clip up and rake it towards you.