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Have you ever lost your key but had to go in? As long as you have two large paperclips handy, you can let yourself in. It's not neat, but you do enter your house. Below is a description of how to open a lock with a paper clip.

To step

1. Unfold your first paperclip to make your runner. To do this, bend the outer loose end so that it is pointing up.
   • Some locksmiths make a small hook at the end of their carpet. This pushes the pins on the inside of the lock inward, but it is not necessarily necessary.
2. Now bend your second large paper clip into a tension wrench. You open the lock with your tension wrench; you carefully turn your second paperclip, while "cracking" the lock with the first.
   • There are several ways to make a tension wrench from a paperclip:
     
   • Bend the outer loose end so that it forms a right angle with your paperclip. This is a very basic tension wrench that works, but is far from ideal.
   • Bend both ends of the paperclip out so that you are left with a u-turn. Squeeze the bend with pliers. Make an angle of 90 ° in the end of the longest end, whereby the resulting hook is about 1 cm long.
3. Insert your tension wrench into the bottom of the keyhole and gently push the side you always turn on with your key to open the lock. A little pressure is essential if you want to open a lock this way.
   • If you don't know which way to turn with your tension wrench, pick one and try it out. 50% chance that the lock will open on the first try!
   • If you have sensitive fingers, you can feel which way to turn to open the lock. First turn your tension wrench clockwise, then counterclockwise. The side where you feel slightly less counter pressure is the direction in which you open the lock.
4. While you keep applying pressure on the tension wrench, insert the runner into the top of the keyhole. Push the runner all the way back, take the runner out again with a quick movement, past the pins in the lock. Do this a few times, so that some pins shoot into place.
5. Keep pressure on the tension wrench and try to find the pins on the inside of the keyhole with your runner. Most locks have at least 5 pins that all have to be pushed in to open the lock.
6. Start in the back of the keyhole and push all the pins in one by one, working your way forward. In the meantime, you have to keep pressure on your tension wrench. Every time you push a pin back into its "open" position, the tension wrench will give a little bit or you will hear a soft click.
   • Experienced lock pickers can do this in one smooth movement, as it were, but inexperienced pickers will have to do this much more consciously, to push every pin into place.
7. As you put more and more pressure on the tension wrench, you wiggle the runner until you have opened every pin. When you hear a click, turn the tension wrench to open the lock.
8. Ready.

Warnings

• Illegal opening of a lock is punishable!
• The above techniques can also be applied to bicycle locks.
• If it is not possible or if you are in a hurry, please contact:
• https://www.fietsslotopenen.nl/werkgebied or
• https://www.fietsslotopenenamsterdam.nl