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Each TSA lock has a number on the outside (below, TSA 002):

Samsonite lock

  1. Go to a kindly luggage store with the suitcase and ask them if they can unlock it. Any TSAA key for a suitcase / lock with the same number will unlock it.

  2. Buy a piece of luggage with the same numbered TSA lock and unlock it. Whether you then return the new suitcases is up to your own moral precepts.

  3. Buy a new TSA key off eBay

  4. Find someone with a 3D printer to make a copy of the key for you.

  5. Pick the lock. TSA locks are incredibly easy to pick as they often have only 3-4 pins and the tolerances are incredibly poor.

Note that for #1 and #2, there is a comment below that the keys for the TSA are not the same as the keys for the lock. My response here for #1 and #2 is that I assume you have a keyed suitcase (since if you had a combo, you'd simply use the combo). What you'll find is that TSA locks are so poorly made that some jiggling of a key that's not supposed to open it will in fact do so simply because the manufacturers are too cheap to make mastered locks and their tolerances are terrible.

Each TSA lock has a number on the outside (below, TSA 002):

Samsonite lock

  1. Go to a kindly luggage store with the suitcase and ask them if they can unlock it. Any TSA key with the same number will unlock it.

  2. Buy a piece of luggage with the same numbered TSA lock and unlock it. Whether you then return the new suitcases is up to your own moral precepts.

  3. Buy a new TSA key off eBay

  4. Find someone with a 3D printer to make a copy of the key for you.

Each TSA lock has a number on the outside (below, TSA 002):

Samsonite lock

  1. Go to a kindly luggage store with the suitcase and ask them if they can unlock it. A key for a suitcase / lock with the same number will unlock it.

  2. Buy a piece of luggage with the same numbered TSA lock and unlock it. Whether you then return the new suitcases is up to your own moral precepts.

  3. Buy a TSA key off eBay

  4. Find someone with a 3D printer to make a copy of the key for you.

  5. Pick the lock. TSA locks are incredibly easy to pick as they often have only 3-4 pins and the tolerances are incredibly poor.

Note that for #1 and #2, there is a comment below that the keys for the TSA are not the same as the keys for the lock. My response here for #1 and #2 is that I assume you have a keyed suitcase (since if you had a combo, you'd simply use the combo). What you'll find is that TSA locks are so poorly made that some jiggling of a key that's not supposed to open it will in fact do so simply because the manufacturers are too cheap to make mastered locks and their tolerances are terrible.

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RoboKaren
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Each TSA lock has a number on the outside (below, TSA 002):

Samsonite lock

  1. Go to a kindly luggage store with the suitcase and ask them if they can unlock it. Any TSA key with the same number will unlock it.

  2. Buy a piece of luggage with the same numbered TSA lock and unlock it. Whether you then return the new suitcases is up to your own moral precepts.

  3. Buy a new TSA key off eBay

  4. Find someone with a 3D printer to make a copy of the key for you.