Lock Pinning Tray (LPL style)

Lock Pinning Tray (Lock Picking Lawyer style) (formerly thing:3140402)

License

Creative Commons - Attribution

Gallery

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Description and Instructions

This is a pinning tray for arranging all the parts while disassembling and re-pinning locks. The design is inspired by the metal tray as often used by TheLockPickingLawyer.

I still provide the old v1 and v2 models, but you'll probably want to print the v3 model. It is more refined, has slightly larger slots, and also comes in a variant with one single large recess (like LPL's original) instead of 2 separated ones.

This was designed in Blender, the source file is provided.

Printing

I eyeballed the dimensions from LPL's videos. After buying one of the tools that LPL also has and comparing dimensions in video screenshots, I figured out that my model is a tad small. To print the tray at a similar size as LPL's original, you should scale up the model to approximately 115% or 120%, although it is also perfectly usable at 100% scale.

You can print this pretty much in any way and material you want. I printed it at 0.15 mm layers with 15% infill. The silver one in the photos is v3 in PLA, the dark gray one is the v1 model printed in ABS.

License

This model has a license that allows to sell prints without requiring to first ask explicit permission from the author, if you follow certain rules.

Practical: what to do when selling prints

If you want to print and sell this model, keep in mind that it is released under a Creative Commons Attribution license. My interpretation of this license is the following.

• If you sell or give away prints of this model, you need to provide attribution. This means you must always provide a clearly visible reference to the source of the model, both on the webpage where you sell or display the model, and on a piece of paper included with each physical product. This is a very easy requirement that does not incur any significant extra cost. Here is an example of a full attribution message:
  “Lock Pinning Tray (LPL style) by DrLex on GitHub, released under a Creative Commons Attribution license.”
  For the required attribution message on your website/store, simply copy the above line, ensure the hyperlink to this GitHub page is preserved (or re-add it), and you're done.
  As for the physical printed object, put a similar message on a piece of paper. Print it, write it, 3D print it, I don't care as long as it's there. Simplest is to use the ready-to-print attribution cards in PDF format that can be found in this repository.
• If you remix this model and you sell prints of that remix, the origin should be attributed as described in the previous point. You can change the message to: “Based on Lock Pinning Tray (LPL style) by DrLex.” You don't need to use the same attribution cards, but it must be obvious that your prints were derived from my model, and must provide a link to this GitHub page.
• You are not obliged to make the 3D model for a remix available, this is not a SA license. If you do publish the 3D model, it must have the same CC BY license or a more restrictive one. You must provide a visible link to this GitHub page wherever your remixed model is published.
• You do not need to ask explicit permission from me to sell prints of this model or a remix. Just do the above. Of course it is fine for you to drop me a message, but you don't need to.
• You do not need to share profits, although of course you may. On my site you can find a few ways to donate, should you want to.

Practical: when displaying this model on a webpage or in a video

To comply with the Creative Commons Attribution license, you need to provide attribution, which is really simple.

• If you display photos of the 3D model or 3D printed copies on a webpage: add the same kind of attribution message as when selling objects. In other words, this one:
  “Lock Pinning Tray (LPL style) by DrLex on GitHub, released under a Creative Commons Attribution license.”
  If there really is no way to provide hyperlinks, the above line of text, possibly as a text overlay in the image, suffices because it contains enough information for people to find this source page, but you must provide links when possible.
• If you show the model or prints of it in a video: include the same message, either spoken, in a text overlay, or in the video's ‘end credits.’ If the video has a separate textual description, add the same message with link as above.

Updates

2018/10/06

First published on Thingiverse.

2019/03/30

Added v2 model that makes it easier to slide pins and springs from the recess into the individual slots.

2024/06/01

Migrated to GitHub. Added v3 model with single recess variant.

Tags

lockpicking, Locksmith, locksport, pinning, tray