How to Pick a skeleton lock?

Question

okay i have a case with a skeleton key and call me an idiot but i locked it and i lost the key and now i cant get my playstation out of there so can you tell me a quick and easy way to unlock it with things from like around any regular house. plz help

Answer 1

Take the hinges off?

Answer 2

Take it to a locksmith. If it really used a "skeleton" key to open the lock, it is a type called a "warded" lock which is really easy to open if I showed you what to do, but to describe in words would take a book. An image is REALLY worth a thousand words. Was the key a simple round shaft with a tab sticking out? Like the kind used on locking diaries and tiny card file type boxes? If so, it is quite easy and this kind I CAN explain. Picture the shape of the key in your mind. Find a flat piece of metal you can shape using a file or whatever with tools you  have handy to approximately to the correct shape and try to fit it to the hole. Inside the lock, in the space where the tab goes, there is something which resembles a light switch, a toggle, which flips up and down. Turn clockwise and the tab flips the toggle up. Turn  counterclockwise and it flips the toggle down. One way locks, the other unlocks. If you take your time and file off a little here and there, you may eventually get the tab the right size in the right place to flip the toggle to unlock the box. It does not have to be perfect, all it has to do is fit ONCE. You may even be able to use a piece of stiff wire, like an unfolded butterfly paperclip with the very end, an eighth of an inch bent over 90 degrees instead of making something. All you need do is flip the toggle. If you take it to a locksmith and it is the type which uses a true skeleton key, the locksmith may have one on hand and pop it open in a second and may not even charge you the time.