{"id":352415,"date":"2018-03-16T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-to-pick-a-lock\/"},"modified":"2018-03-16T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:05:41","slug":"how-to-pick-a-lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-to-pick-a-lock\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Pick a Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-675909\">\n<div class=\"clearfix post-info\">\n<p class=\"authors\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/brett-mckay\/?ptype=article\" title=\"Posts by Brett McKay\" rel=\"author\">Brett McKay<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/\">The Art of Manliness<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">March 16, 2018<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-content clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So you know\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/2014\/11\/19\/how-to-pick-a-lock-pin-tumbler-locks\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">how to pick a lock<\/a>\u00a0with a tension wrench and rake. This is an incredibly useful skill, which will allow you to get in your house if you get locked out without having to call a locksmith, and will also allow you to help others who\u2019ve become locked out. You might even need to pick the lock of a door behind which someone is incapacitated and in need of emergency help.<\/p>\n<p>But, what do you do if you find yourself needing to pick a lock, but you don\u2019t have your lock picks on you?<\/p>\n<p>You use the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/2015\/03\/03\/macgyver-manhood-and-the-art-of-masculine-improvisation\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">manly art of improvisation<\/a>\u00a0and MacGyver yourself out of this tough spot with nothing but paper clips and pliers, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Picking a lock with paper clips works pretty much the same way as picking a lock with a traditional tension wrench and rake. You just need to turn two paper clips into those two very same tools, and then pick the lock with them like you\u2019d normally do.<\/p>\n<p>Below I show you how.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What You\u2019ll Need<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/03\/materials.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-675911 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/03\/materials.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 metal paper clips \u2014 the sturdier the better. Don\u2019t use plastic paper clips. They\u2019ll just break.<\/li>\n<li>Pair of pliers (like you\u2019d find\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2oTUm5Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">on a Leatherman<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to Pick a Lock with Paper Clips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Make Your Tension Wrench<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/03\/twrench1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-675914 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/03\/twrench1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"273\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Straighten out one of your paper clips but leave one end still bent. Squeeze those two parts together. This is the part that will go in the lock. Using your pliers, bend the long, straight end of the paper clip 90 degrees to form the handle of the tension wrench.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make Your Rake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/03\/rake1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-675915 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lrc-cdn\/assets\/2018\/03\/rake1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Straighten out the second paper clip. Pinch the end of the paper clip with the pliers and bend the long part 90 degrees to form the first ridge in the rake. Move the pliers down on the long part of the paper&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/brett-mckay\/how-to-pick-a-lock-with-a-paper-clip\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brett McKay The Art of Manliness March 16, 2018 So you know\u00a0how to pick a lock\u00a0with a tension wrench and rake. This is an incredibly useful skill, which will allow you to get in your house if you get locked out without having to call a locksmith, and will also allow you to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}