Re: Window lock stuck.
For people's info
This technique, of simply sliding a rigid piece of metal or for that matter plastic, into a lock is a long standing and pretty universal solution.
It's important that people know how insecure most locks are.
This technique applies to your door locks, window locks and 99.9999% of ALL PADLOCKS.
The only locks which offer real security are those that involve an actual bolt that the locking mechanism moves in and out.
So for example, take a look at any door lock that is a fairly bog standard Yale type lock. Actually most of the internal doors in your house will be this kind though of course they wont have locks.
What you are looking for is the "bolt" part that goes into the latch hole when the door is closed. You will see that it is tapered or chamfered which is what makes the door easy to close. However that taper/chamfer is what makes the door weak.
You can take any strong and thin piece of metal or plastic (an old credit card usually works well) and slide it into the door groove where the lock is and rock it while pushing to get it in and that will push the tapered bolt back into the door and voila the door is open.
Doesn't matter if the door is Yale locked because that bolt still moves in and out anyway.
Now to padlocks.
As I said 99% of all padlocks use the same system. When the padlock is open, notice that the locking arm has a notch in it like here:
The lock works by having a ball bearing inside the lock that is sprung loaded and when the lock is shut, the ball bearing locates into that groove.
Thus to open ANY padlock of this nature all you need do is slide a thin piece of metal down into the hole where that locking arm is.
You can make the required tool from any aluminium cola/pop can.
This website shows you how, it's really very simple.
https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/ho...shims-0133147/
The moral of the story is, never use tapered locks to secure your house or valuables because they are useless.