PacLock’s 7-Pin Surprise Picked & Gutted (Model 90A-Pro)

This is the lock picking lawyer and what I have for you today is a packlock model: 90A Pro padlock. It was sent in by Jordan in Bowling Green Kentucky, and his letter says that he has picked a few of these in the past, but couldn’t open this one now. This may look like a myriad of other 40 millimeter aluminum padlocks, but there is something very unique about it before I get into that, though, I should disclose that I have an ongoing business relationship with paklock as of about eight months ago. The practice lock I sell over on covertinstruments.com was transitioned to a unit made by packlock.

I don’t think that affects my judgment, but in matters like this, it really doesn’t matter what I think my role is to inform you of a potential conflict, and you make your own call now back to the lock. What makes it so unique is the fact that this has a seven pin core. I have about four dozen different brands of 40 millimeter aluminum, padlocks and they’re all four five or six pins. This one has seven and like most current production, padlocks it’s full of security pins. So let’s see what it takes to pick this open using top of the keyway tension with one of my Ergo Turners and the medium Hook from the Genesis set.

I sell both of these over on covertinstruments.com, nothing on one two, three, four, five six is binding. Nice click there a little bit of motion on the core, nothing on seven back to the beginning, nothing on one, two, three four five is binding. Nice click there. It might be set nothing on six or seven one.

Two three is binding. Nice click there a little bit more motion on the core, nothing on four okay. Five is binding again a little counter rotation there. I think we have five set nothing on six or seven one. Two three is binding: I’ve got a nice click, but it’s still binding.

Probably a serrated pin, okay, we’re in a deep false set. Now, okay, four is binding tightly and we’re getting some counter rotation on it, and we just got that open. Okay folks, that did take a little while, but this is one of those cases where I think pick time might not reflect difficulty. We had several security pins, but there were also a few zero lift pins, meaning if you lift them at all, you overset the pin stack. Those can be really tricky even for some Advanced Pickers and I’m guessing that’s what happened with Jordan.

So let’s take this apart and see what’s inside to disassemble this, we have an allen screw right down the shackle hole that allows us to remove the security nut and security plate on the bottom. Then the core falls out as well as the ball bearings from the ball, bearing locking mechanism you can see in this case the core and actuator are one integrated unit. Now we need to get this clip off the back before we can disassemble it anymore, and to do that, I might have to re-lock it that we were able to get that off now. I should be able to get this off with a follower. Okay, let’s drop these key pins out now, but before I do so, you can see these zero lift pins, one two and seven, those I’m guessing they would.

They would make most Pickers very nervous. Okay, these are all standard key pins, let’s arrange them before I get the driver pins out. Okay on the driver, pins number one is a serrated pin two is a spool. Three is serrated, four is a spool. 5 is serrated, 6 is a spool and 7 is an extra long standard.

Pin that’s put in for two reasons: one it stops it from being combed and two. It also increases bump resistance. Okay, let’s zoom in just a little bit there, you can see all standard key pins, serrated, spool, serrated, spool, serrated, spool and extra long pen to make this more resistant resistant to comb, picking and bumping, so all in all, not a bad product. In any case, that’s all I have for you today if you do have any questions or comments about this, please put them below if you like this video and would like to see more like it please subscribe and as always have a nice day. Thank you.