@arch @alice While easy enough to just guess and eventually open with 3 wheels, if I were to make it faster I would use a notch decoder, most locks like this can be picked that way. Example video from lockpicking lawyer: https://youtu.be/aRBhcrI4Pj4&t=55

@alice we managed to get it unlocked!!

Thank you so much :3

@arch here's another example with a random cable lock I found at the place I'm staying.

This one is really stiff, but you can hear the true gate when I pop a dial into it!

@alice you’re forgiven!

Thankfully we’re at a furry convention so there are a lot of people with a lock picking special interest too 😁

But this is reminding me I want to get back into lock picking lol

@arch here's an example, using a random luggage lock. It has a cable shackle, so it needs to be tensioned by sliding the cable towards the center, instead of pulling shltraight down like a metal shackle model of this type of lock, but the rest is identical.

Search for the wheel that is "stickiest", adjust it, find if another wheel is now the "stickiest", adjust that, etc. You can see me looking for how much play the wheels have compared to each other. More give means morel likely a true gate. A little give, likely a false gate, but it's all relative to the others.