MIT Guide to Lock Picking by Ted the Tool - HTML preview

chapter

presen

ts

the

basic

w

orkings

of

pin

tumbler

lo cks,

and

the

vocabulary

used

in

the

rest

of

this

b

o oklet.

The

terms

used

to

describ e

lo

c

ks

and

lo

c

k

parts

v

ary

from

manufacture

to

manufacture

and

from

cit

y

to

city

,

so

even

if

y

ou

already

understand

the

basic

workings

of

lo

c

ks,

y

ou

should

lo ok

at

gure

2.1

for

the

v

o cabulary

.

Knowing

ho

w

a

lo

c

k

works

when

it

is

op ened

by

a

k

ey

is

only