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Okay. Topic of this video, guys, is how to tell when you’ve got the right amount of tension. Honestly and truly, this is a subject that beginners get hung up on all the time. So, listen. This is important. The first thing is, you can’t give an absolutely specific number. If I said you want 3.2 Newtons, that’s just ridiculous. What you want is enough tension so that one pin binds. That’s it. That’s as complicated as it gets, fellows. Let’s say I’ve got no tension on that lock at all at the moment. I’ve put my pick in there, and surprise, surprise, none of those pins are binding. Right. On the other hand, let’s say I put an absolutely ridiculous amount of tension on there.

You can see how much that big, thick pry bar is bending. Everything’s locked solidly in there. I just can’t get any decent feedback from that at all. Somewhere between those two extremes is going to be the point where just one pin, there we go, you heard me set the thing there, right? There was just one pin binding there. I could feel it was binding. I set it, and off I went. That is how you tension a lock. There’s no mystery to it, fellows. It is just a case of finding that amount where one pin binds, and nothing else does. Easy as that.

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