Q&A for How to Pick a Lock

Slide the card into the space between the door and the door frame where the lock is. Tilt the card toward the doorknob to help it slide in along the latch, then bend the card back the other way to push the latch back. You may need to wiggle the card back and forth a few times to get the latch open.

You might be able to take apart a mechanical pencil and use some of the sturdier metal components to pick a lock, but a wooden pencil probably wouldn’t work. However, you can use pencil lead to lubricate a sticky lock if you don’t have powdered graphite on hand!

For advice on picking a lock with a paperclip, check out the wikiHow How to Pick a Lock Using a Paperclip .

There are various ways to pick a lock with household items, such as by using a credit card, a paperclip or a bobby pin. For detailed advice on unlocking using everyday objects, check out the wikiHow How to Pick a Lock with Household Items .

For help with using a bobby pin to pick a lock, check out the wikiHow How to Pick a Lock with a Bobby Pin .

If you don’t have a key to unlock a door, you can try to unlock it with a bobby pin , a a paperclip or a professional lock picking kit. You could call a locksmith if you're locked out of your home, car, shed, etc. Also, check out the various other suggestions in the article above.

Perhaps, but a lot of them know how to anyway. It's useful for other people to know in case they ever get locked out if their home, or if they need to urgently get to something or someone behind a locked door.

Using the method described here will not break the lock permanently. After the pick and wrench are removed, the lock can be re-locked and used again. However, be aware that rough handling of the wrench or pick can shatter those tools, and pins in older locks can be broken by the pick/wrench combination if you apply excess pressure. Be gentle and only practice on a lock you don't mind losing.

Find a long, stick-like thing small enough to fit in the hole. Feel around for a very small surface, then press into it while turning the knob.

No. Picking a lock in this manner has the same effect as using a key. Freezing or drilling the lock to open it, however, permanently damages it.

Until you have developed enough experience, it will be trial and error until you get it right.

Basically the same way. Make a pick with it by straightening it and curve one end. Then just get something to turn the tumbler.

Using a pick tool like this will not damage the lock at all. It will work just fine with a key.

Usually, although the lock may be the same type as the ones illustrated above, the pins may have different styles, which requires different picks.

Anything small enough to fit through the key and press the pins. For example, you could try a paperclip. Bobby pins that have the ends taken off can work too. A pick is the easiest thing to use though.

Look online for suppliers, via an online search engine. Try to compare prices and always check the shipping fees.

Step 1: Remove the little balls on the end Step 2: Break in half Step 3: Put the curved end in the top of the lock and bend it so it makes a little L at the end Step 4: Put the other side of the pin (the straight side) into the bottom of the lock horizontally and bend it sideways as much as you can (it is kind of hard) Step 5: Use the one at the top to feel the pins and make them click (or convert it into a rake pick if you have the proper tools and just rake it) Step 6: Apply continuous pressure on the one at the bottom in the way that the key would turn and when you get all of the pins then you can turn it all the way to unlock the door

Depending on the lock, you may be able to use a straightened-out paperclip, bobby pin, or clothes hanger.

Take a drill and turn it on. Put it up against the lock and push firmly. Once it goes in just keep going. It should break it and you will be in.

You can bend a paper clip to form a tension wrench, or fold the back part of the rounded end of a hairpin.

Find the place where you would put a key. Pick the lock there.

If the hanger is the right thickness (like a wire hangar) then yes, you should be able to pick the lock that way.

Hot glue would be unreliable, because it bends and breaks easily. This is not recommended.

If they are big safety pins, then yes. Small safety pins tend to bend easily.

Yes and no. You do not need that specific tool, but you will need something to act as it, as it is how you turn the lock to gain access.

Keep it stationary while inserting the rake pick or rake and use the tension wrench while you pull the rake. The tension might interfere the rake pick or rake and result damage, especially if you use a paperclip rake.

Believe it or not, they are actually pretty similar. They both use the same styled key so the mechanism should be almost the same.

If you don't mind destroying the lock permanently, you could ask somebody for a bolt cutter.

Here are the hardest locks to pick (based on their technology and security): 1. Kwikset Smart Key 2. EVVA MCS (it has a very rare pattern that makes it nearly impossible to find the pins if you haven't studied on the system of the key before); 3. HYT Chain Key (the chain makes it nearly crazy to pick with the regular rake and pick-set).

Pushing it usually helps. If you mean relocking the lock, Usually applying pressure in the opposite direction with the tension wrench will relock a stiff lock.