American Padlock Bottom Pin

Serrated bottom pin (American Padlock). Serrated pins tend to falsely set at the serrations when picked. Many American-brand padlocks use serrations not only on the top pins but on the bottom pins as well; this makes picking "in reverse" especially difficult. These locks are very difficult to pick. Note that American uses smaller pins than most locks -- about .093 inches in diameter (most locks use .115 inch diameter pins). Image taken with a Nikon D-100 digital camera with the 85mm f/2.8 macro PC shift/tilt lens, attached to a PB-6 bellows and tripod mount. Note that this image is not color-corrected. Copyright © 2003 by Matt Blaze. All rights reserved. You may not copy, modify or use this image for any commercial or non-commercial purpose without permission. Click here for more lock pin images. Click here for my home page.