HELP on payphone LOCK

Apr 23, 2005 Last reply: 19 years ago 8 Replies

Hello Guys ! I just got a OLD PAYPHONE ( from the 80's ) and I DON' T have the KEYS. I was reading some web site about payphones and now I know I need a T-key to work at same time with the regular key to open the bottom and top doors. Do you know if the other locks can be picked ? If YES where can I buy a beginners lock picking set ? Thank you and I hope you guys can help me.



Hi, Welcome to the news group, I might recommend you read the FAC ( that is frequently asked questions) to obtain some general information .

Congratulations on your purchase of a locked up payphone. Of course picking the lock on a payphone is easy,the phone company would have it no other way.After all many payphones are in remote locations and there would be no need to have high security devices protecting the coins.

I doubt that the phone box could be picked with as beginners pick set, the Super 90 Piece Professional set would be a minimum. , but even with that a Hair Dryer would be almost a necessity. Good luck in your pursuit let us know how it works out.

Hello and thank you for your replay. could you tell me why a " HAIR DRYER " ? Thank you. MARCILIO.

Find this group archive on Google and serach for 'hairdryer'.

good place to start before asking questions.

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Speaking only for myself, my policy is that I don't teach picking techniques unless I've personally known the person for two years.

You can find many forums on the web, but that's out of my control.

When I was new at locksmithing, I was completely fascinated by picking. Now, after 20+ years in the trade, it's an important part of the job, but not totally fascinating. There is so much more to the job.

The reasons I don't teach picking are several.

1) There is no way to know who is the person asking. Most people asking (or lurking and reading the posts) are decent people, but a few are not. So, I've decided simply not to say anything to anyone.

2) Picking locks is a "trade secret" like many other trades which have their techniques and systems.

3) A very small part of the security of locks is that so few people know how to pick them. So, by teaching lock picking, I make all locks less secure for the world. Not what I want to do.

4) Purely selfishly, I learned lock picking the hard way, with lots of practice, and you can do the same.

I wish you well. Hope this doesn't sound unkind, but the world isn't a nice place sometimes.

That's confidential. If you knew that, you could pick any lock in the world. We can't tell you.

Making a key for an existing payphone lock (Owned by the phone company) is a

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