How do you open a lock using a bobby pin?

Question

step by step directions please

Answer 1

Kes has the right idea, but you really can't use a bobby pin to pick a lock, other than the bathroom door type that you just "push in the button".

A real lock pick is made of heat-treated oil-hardening steel so that it doesn't bend - a bobby pin will bend.

It is possible to pick a lock with a bobby pin, but you'd need lots of practice (in fact you'd need to be an expert, in which case you wouldn't need to ask this question). The 'tension wrench' can be made from a bobby pin with both ends of the pin bent at 90°. These tips are inserted into the cylinder where the key goes, and provides tension to gently turn the cylinder in the open direction. You only need *little finger* pressure to turn the cylinder - more is not better! The actual pick is made from a bobby pin straightend completely out, and needs a little bend (say 15°) on the end. The problem is that the pick will have a tendency to bend if you apply much pressure. The expert knows that you don't need much pressure in lifting the pins or rotating the cylinder, in fact, the less the better, but the novice will try to use too much force. This is partly why heat-treated tools are necessary (to compensate for the novice).

If you take a lock apart and remove all the pins except one, you can practice opening the lock with a bobby pin, then add one more pin and practice again, until you can do it with all five pins. It is painful without the right tools, but an expert could do it.

Answer 2

Assuming you are talking about a doorknob, usually you put the bobby pin in the tiny small hole of the doorknob. All you need to do is push a piece of metal backward directly in the center of the doorknob and the door will open. If it is a lock where a key fits, I don't believe it will work. I know for a fact if the lock or doorknob has a small tiny circular hole it can be opened with a bobby pin. If nothing works, unscrew the doorknob with a screwdriver or unscrew the hinges off the door. Kat don't forget to choose the best answer. I noticed you had other questions from your past that you forgot to choose so no one received the extra points.

Answer 3

It has to be one of those doors designed to be picked (like the bathroom door with the hole in it), or you need to find a door with a large obsolete lock and work the inner tumbler that the notch on the key hits with it. Modern locks require you to hit multiple latches at the same time, have a very small keyhole, and it is about impossible to accomplish what you are asking.

Or so I've heard. =)

Answer 4

You have to pick the lock; especially if it is your own.

Answer 5

well, why do you want to know.... ; )