Removing locking hitch pin when key is lost.

[AATLAS1X]

I lost the key to my hitch pin and was not excited as the key was the round style.

So my tech had a great idea based on the vibrating tumbler shaker used in all the spy movies, so he hit it with an air hammer on the rod end, all for about 3 seconds.

Ill be damned when the lock end shot off the pin.



Shane

 

[Hoochie Time]

I'm not surprised. A few years ago I bought an enclosed four place snowmobile trailer and four of the heaviest duty Master pad locks I could find ($60.00 bucks each) two for each door. I then went sledding, at the end of the day I realized I had locked my keys in the trailer, duh. One fellow in the parking area came over with a battery powered zip cutting wheel (cost under $100.00) and cut two of the locks off in under two minutes for each lock.

Locks are truly for honest people.

 

[seapotato]

if the round style key is like those old style Kryptonite bike locks, they say a bic pen will open any of them..

there was a big recall I guess, people selling bic pens on ebay as universal bike lock keys.

 

[meat]

4 inch angle grinder

with a cut off wheel

 

[Brian in Oregon]

I used a blue tip wrench on mine a couple of weeks ago.

 

[PAToyota]

I've cut two off that had rusted to the point of the key no longer working. Have to try the air hammer next time.

 

[1BiGGuy]

I've had two of those style that wouldn't open after being locked and left on a vehicle for some time. A couple of blows from a hammer on the key end and they just snapped in two no problem.