Combination padlock stuck

bouicca21

I have a Masters 1016 cd combination padlock on my garage.  The number doodahs started sticking occasionally a few days ago.  Now I can’t open it at all.  I’ve sprayed it with WD40 and now the wheels go round more easily - but it still won’t open.  Any ideas, before I go looking for someone with bolt cutters?  Is it likely that the WD40 just needs more time to work properly?  There are lots of diy burglar hints for picking such locks on YouTube for people who have ‘forgotten’ the combination, but I know mine, just want to get it to work so I can get my bike out and do my lockdown exercise.

Alter_ego

Bolt cutters would struggle, Try an angle grinder instead.

Paula_Smith

If you know the combination it should open eventually unless something has broken inside. Give it another go with wd40. 

Can you get some leverage with a screwdriver or similar?

Le_Kirk

Do you still have the instructions for it and did you ever reset the password (pass numbers)?  I wonder if you have inadvertently reset it.  When you say it won't open, what happens?  You set the numbers you believe are the combination and the padlock hasp does not pull out of the body?  Try starting with the "correct" number and then, on just ONE of the dials, go one up and try, two up and try, three up etc, then one down, try two down try.  Once you have exhausted one reel, start on the second reel.  This is of course assuming that when you turn the dials, they are actually turning the mechanism and not just the outer case slipping round the inner mechanism.

bouicca21

Well the idea that I had somehow reset the code was patently absurd - except that it wasn't. So, using Le-Kirk's instructions and the YouTube lock picking for trainee burglar videos, I have managed to open it.  I don't know how I did it, but somehow one number had been changed.

Since I have no idea how to obtain/borrow an angle grinder during lockdown (and tbh I don't really know what an angle grinder is, not the sort of thing I learned about at a thoroughly sexist girls' school in times long gone by), I am mightily relieved.  Ta.

Le_Kirk

Glad you got it sorted.

MovingForwards

@bouicca21 some of these toys are fun! Have a look at Screwfix and your eyes will open to a whole new world of angle grinders, nail guns, electric screwdrivers, gardening equipment household things like fires etc.
-- I had so much fun years ago when handed a nail gun to fix together a trellis!

It will empower you knowing what people are talking about, especially if you ever need anything doing around the house and require a tradesman to replace things and want to know if they are vastly increasing prices of the things. A small increase is expected to cover time when ordering / collecting it.

Go on, you know you need something new to pass the day away 🤭

bouicca21

I have always rather fancied playing with a nail gun, but fear I would be quite dangerous.  When I first started to live on my own I bought a drill and put up some hooks.  I even changed the battery in my car. I was really quite proud of myself.  

However it is actually quite liberating to know that you can get someone who actually knows how to do things rather than teach yourself to do them.  My attitude is probably shaped by years of enduring life with men who refused to employ tradesmen and insisted on botching things up.  Even apparently simple things like decorating take skills that I don’t have and don’t want to put in the effort to learn.  My place was painted as part of an insurance claim.    Never had a proper decorator before.  My dad did a reasonable job, my father in law did a dreadful one and the ex did something that was vaguely ok (but took   weeks and sometimes months) to do it.   I was so impressed with the result.  Perfect edges (is that what is called cutting in?).  OK, I didn’t have to pay the bill, but I guarantee that if I ever need to have the place painted again, I’ll be paying someone to do it.

FreeBear

MovingForwards said: @bouicca21 some of these toys are fun! Have a look at Screwfix and your eyes will open to a whole new world of

"Who needs a man when you have a cordless screwdriver and a hammer."

MovingForwards

FreeBear said:

MovingForwards said: @bouicca21 some of these toys are fun! Have a look at Screwfix and your eyes will open to a whole new world of

Who needs a man when you have a cordless screwdriver and a hammer.

I think it's good for everyone to know how to do the basics, have a small toolkit in a cupboard and not rely on people to do everything.