Benevolent videos about locks and lock picking. Focusing on high-security locks.
My goal in these videos is NOT to point out flaws in the locks that I work on. On the contrary! I hold these devices in the highest regard. They are beautiful pieces of engineering which as an engineer myself, I appreciate. My only goal is to share the experience, excitement and challenge of picking them with like-minded friends.
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Yes. In this case I did because I did not know how the lock worked. I needed to take it apart to understand its mechanism before I could reasonably approach picking it. For other locks that I understood better, I usually tried to pick them before disassembly. However, sometimes I would have a failed take after picking, and something would go out of frame while I was gutting the lock and I had to redo the video. In those cases, of course, I would have previously disassembled the lock.
The key looks like it was impressioned (cut with a round file). I think the high ridges on the keys need to be ground down so it slides in better. Lube may help but I don't think it's the main cause.
In your opinion is there a gun safe today with an electronic lock that can't be converted to a mechanical? A Rhino tech told me today a certain line of their safes it was not compatible. Def want the mechanical lock.
Thanks good video , 70 yr.old beginner , still working on master locks 140 ,141 ,& my son gave me a 7040 , I've tried for 2 1/2 months & just can't even come close to opening , it's awful ,thanks , moe
I have a display interactive bilock but the knuckle that protrudes down where your tension wrench goes snapped off so i havent been able to pick it yet
Great video. My husband and I are going to purchase some of there locks for our house the next time we visit the UK. They are classy looking locks compare to the door locks in the USA. Hopefully we can find them on sale as you mentioned they can be expensive. The engineering and craftsmanship is amazing. God bless 🙏
Anyone interested in going in on making a run of these stands? Neither of these guys have made a video in five years and all my attempts to contact either of them have failed.
Sorry if I've missed your attempts to contact me. I believe my friend was thinking of making these, or at least something similar to them. His website is www.hazzertousmfg.com/ and his name is Hassert on the Lockpickers United Discord server.
Excellent pick Master 👍🔓🌐 What about 4ks ?))) If you pick 3 ks so four ks you will to pick too 👍🔓 I'm sure 😅 Difficult to pick this brand. But you make it very clear and effectively, Master !!! Good luck 👍
I've got an old Gen2 SmartKey that is sticky and wonky and absolutely refuses to cooperate. If you apply ANY tension whatsoever everything binds up like it's welded together. Even if you get some set and remove tension, nothing releases until you apply reverse tension. And if you try to manipulate in just the right way, the wafers will slip and change the keying so the key won't even work. It's an absolute beast to work with.
I love kwikset it’s the best largest manufacturer in the world and their new smart key is invincible other than reading it with the camera inside you basically can’t pick it. I had somebody tell me they can drill it, but why bother you can find other means of access
I had this lock. Guy told me it was unpickable. Got it for a friend of mine. Looks like it was. Haha well at least it was better than a regular at the time
Yes tensioning the side bar is the trick until a countermeasure blocking the shim entering past the ball bearing into the side bar is designed. Imagine bumping is technique of choice for nefarious characters and this lock seems better at resisting that.
А EVVA 4KSкто нибудь пробовал открывать отмычками неразбирая цилиндр? Это аферист он разобрал цилиндр увидел как собран цилиндр и как бутто открыл цилиндр отмычкой☻
After installing and messing up the re-keying process on my brand-new Kwikset deadbolt, I found tumbl3r video. I discovered that the plastic cover on the bottom half of the cylinder, was VERY lightly attached to the cylinder. When you insert the key in preparation to re-fitting the wafer-side of the cylinder, the key pressure on those little springs can cause the plastic shell to pop off and the 5 little springs to fly out. Be very careful here.
i have a pair of twin 6000 and i was about to disassemble one of them and the springs and pins just flew all the way from sweden to china! and it went a couple of months or so and i forgot(due to some Grand Mal Epileptical seizures) what happend the time before and made the same idiotic thing so now i have a pair of the easiest locks to pic in the world i can tell ya! you only need your finger nail! xD
For hobby pickers, please consider posting more detailed picking hints that define that lock's Kwikset Smartkey generation. I've looked at these posts: Charles builds crap Michael Gilchrist # L21 Jamie's locks #25, 29 loupgarou21 Artemis picks #21 tumbl3r (post and "design changes") Cordially, Gary Bowman
the other posts didn't get listed. They are: Michael Gilchrise L21, Jamies locks #25, 29, loupgarou21, Chris Ahrens #68, 139, 21, lockapalooza #4, MrBlack-magic #57. From looking at the face of the lock how can one tell if it's a gen 3 needing the shim to pick?
My Lagard safe lock does not consistently open despite being careful in entering the combination. The lock is about 15 years old, is there some sort of maintenence I should do for it?
On modern safes they mostly do. There are exceptions, of course, but if your safe is modern and using a common lock (which it seems to be), you can be pretty sure the hole pattern is standard. In general you can find dimensioned drawings for the hole pattern on safe locks like this one: m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61qHEFGmyVL._AC_SL1166_.jpg.. Looking them up would help you confirm. I'm not super familiar with Mosler but I'm pretty they'd have the same hole pattern as Lagard.
Nice work. From a practical standpoint this lock DOES win since only a handful of people with a tool like this can pick these disc locks. And even you took a relatively long time to complete the solve. Of course none of this matters if your thief has a cordless angle grinder with a silicon carbide grinding wheel. The keys are TIME and NOISE. There are videos of criminals in broad daylight stealing $1500 bicycles with such angle grinders. They don't even bother with key ways at all. One last idea: What if Abloy added a spring loaded dimple to this package? The dimple would have to be actuated for the key to turn like on Mul-T-Lock systems.
