How well can you top pick an old Westinghouse door lock?

the cameraman misses the shots form the back

14:17 what are all those springs on right side of "box" for? Why so much mechanisms, as I understood only that "arm" on the very left is responsible for locking.

Who does this class and is there any contact info?

Where can one purchase those tools?

Can I get this instructor’s name? I had a couple of questions about picking tools and wanted to reach out. Or if anybody has dimensions on a top pick and a side pick tool they can share I would really appreciate it.

To those commenting why not just use a key... why not this why not that. Imagine trying to locate a key while the building is on fire and people are trapped and smoke is building. You could literally improvise this tool with a coat hanger if you absolutely had to. You could even run to the nearest hardware store and buy a rod and bend it to shape before the manager could ever get you a key. The TAKEAWAY IS THE KNOWLEDGE TO DO IT THE HARD WAY. That way if you have to do it the hard way you know how to. VS being shown just use a key... Then you drop the key and cant find it in the smoke and fire... and those people die. Or you wait for a half hour to get a key that isnt the right fit or fails and those people die. This is a very simple tool to improvise. You as a Rescuer need to understand HOW AN ELEVATOR DOOR WORKS AND HOW TO DEFEAT THE DOOR WITH MINIMUM EFFORT AND DAMAGE TO THE DOOR AND SYSTEM IF YOU CANT GET A KEY... Once you learn to do something the hard way the easy way is even easier and youre the person who knows how to do it even when you dont what you need. ESENTIALLY ITS YET ANOTHER TOOL IN YOUR TOOL BELT = KNOWLEDGE. If you want to do everything the easy way I would suggest you dont fire and or Rescue because theres going to be many times where the easy way is not plausible and peoples lives will depend on rather or not you can accomplish a task with little to nothing. It would be a damn shame for someone you are trying to save to die because you never learned or thought it was too hard to use a simple rod and a few small motions to get those doors open or because you had no ability to improvise because you wanted to do everything the easy way and never valued improv to do it the hard way when the easy way was not there to do. Everything you learn is a tool. The old saying two is one and one is none. The more tools and knowledge you have to work with the better.

It should be noted that these, or any other methods, should not be performed my amateurs.

PLEASE ONLY USE THAT PADDLE DEVICE AS A LAST LAST RESORT!!! this block of writing is for the instructor teaching people how to defeat elevator doors. The reason the door flies open when you use that paddle on the bottom part of the door. It is because there is no power on as you said and the elevator clutch is not on the pick up rollers. Now .. what you are doing is going really low on the door and progressively further from the Beak. The Beak, is in the interlock at the top of both doors. They are now your leverage point They are being pressured with magnitudes of greater force than you are putting into your paddle (LEVERAGE) tool on both sides because you are turning the doors into levers and working them against each other. So the further down you go the more power you are creating. And then you must remember since both doors are levers. You have basically created two large levers working in opposite directions of travel and force and that would put twice the mechanical advantage of the Levers/doors on that little teeter totter in the interlock. That's why it is not so effective higher up. So when you do this. Please be careful and make sure you didn't just break the beak off in the door lock. What you are doing is not opening the door. What you are doing is creating a point of failure and the weakest link in that chain just gave way by distortion most likely. This should only be a last resort kind of operation. When I see you doing this I can see a lot of different dangerous scenarios that can happen because of it. The SCARIEST scenario it could create is one of the most frightening situations where the beak breaks off in the lock and still makes up the circuit. Now the elevator thinks the doors are shut and the car can run at full speed. Now there is a speeding guillotine for someone to poke their head into the shaft to get a curious quick look. This is the kind of stuff our nightmares are made of. So if you ever do this. Please don't just leave the power off in the machine room. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put a lock on the disconnect and then leave a note about how you overcame and defeated the interlock. This way the Mechanic who comes to put it back into service can get an understanding about what you guys did and he can inspect the locking components on that particular hall door.

Why don't the doors have locks that can be opened with a special key (dropkey, triangle key)?

GAL is easy to pick, you guys make it look hard.

If the power isnt off dont try any of these tools. How many years of elevator experience do you have? Actual working in the buisness!

Two wheels per door. Wheels? Rollers dude! Why not just encounter the lift rod from the front of the fast door? It’s easier than this shows. Those wheel-o picks look like Otis picks. What a messed up training for GAL door equipment.