I heard about bump keys recently, and had a little time to play around this morning. I read an article about them, and watched a youtube video, and away I went. It took about 15 minutes to hand-file a key. And then another 20 minutes to try the "pull-back" method, file the key a little more and switch to the "minimal-movement" method, spray a little WD-40 in the lock -- tada! I was kind of surprised that it actually worked.
I tried again, and it took me maybe 10 minutes to open it. You have to bang harder than you might expect. The next time was maybe 2 minutes, and then 30 seconds. I switched to the door handle (I had been working on the deadbolt -- there apparently is some risk of breaking the lock, and I figured if I can only choose one lock to have working, I would rather have the handle lock working) and I opened it in about 10 seconds.
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Jon Daley on
December 13, 2006, 7:20 am
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