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How to pick locks with paper clip. Apply light but even pressure to the tension wrench. All we’re gonna do is simply bend one of them. Assemble lock, paper clip and trial keys to practice your skills.

What we’re going to do is to use 2 standard paper clips. Only pick lock your own locks. How to pick a lock using a paperclip.

Insert the hooked paper clip into the lock. Insert it into the gap in the door below the latch. Insert a clip you prepared in the shape of an l, your tension key, into the keyhole.

That’s how to pick a combination lock with a paperclip! Straighten the curves to make two prongs on the clip. Hold the end of the paper clip with pliers and bend the long part 90 degrees to form the first ridge in the rake.

The actual lock picking happens with the picker. We’re going to turn them into two little tools so we can pick this lock. This is a video tutorial to show you all how to pick open a lock by creating lock picking tools made from paper clip.

Straighten another large paper clip to make a torque wrench. If you don’t hear anything, keep turning! Find out which way your lock turns.