Having done so myself, I can tell you, unless you have a similar TRAY, and good non-magnetic Tweezers, gutting one can be a One-Way-Journey. Springs fly away, pins & spools get mixed.....it can be daunting.
Imagine waking up one morning, opening the front door, and on the welcome mat is your front door’s lock, fully disassembled and neatly laid out on a pinning table.
As a technician who works on small mechanical appliances I know that disassembly is the easy part and the reassembly is where the real skill comes in. I would LOVE to see a video where you go through the process of reassembling one of these lock cores.
I really love the modularity of locks like this. the ability to re-pin locks is something I think I'll look into at some point so I can get rid of some of the keys off my own key ring.
I would take a look at PacLock. They sell keyed-alike cores, 5 at a time, that fit nearly all of their locks. Look for "UCS," their Universal Cylinder System. You could repin the locks if you want, but why bother when you can just buy sets of cores with the keycode you want?
These locks are almost magic in that regard. You can get pretty much any keyway, and they can be rekeyed without any special skills or tools. You don't even need a follower. www.abus.com/us/Guide/83-Series-R-Padlocks That pinning window makes it ridiculously easy.
Long ago, I had one key set for my house , parents, inlaws etc.. I really do not like carrying keys. I also cut the two sides of a toyota blank to work on my wifes and my truck.
This is extremely interesting since LPL prides himself on a perfect streak of numbers without videos being taken down for reasons of threat, umm...legal stuff, etc. He specifically commented this when the question arose recently during a discussion on automotive locks. But, I have absolutely no idea what 1328 was...
I was looking at some locks in a store the other day here in South Africa: they seemed to be so cheap and badly made that our friend LPL would just look at them and they would give up and open.
You should make a complete video showing the pros and cons of each type of pin /spool/etc, so we can understand why it's more secure (or maybe not?) to have them. If you have already done a video like that please tellme, I have searched for it without success.
I'm pretty sure he has done so, but with literally more than a thousand videos, it's hard to recall the video number. You could try Bosnian Bill's channel, too.
Feels like it's been a while since the pinning tray has come out. Overall sounds like a pretty good lock that just depends on the core you have in there.
On SC1 keyway? LOL. An experienced picker can pick it much faster with a pick. Lishi is used to decode the key bitting. It’s commonly used by lock smith so they can make key.
Think of it this way. Every year for Christmas you are allowed to get one or two Lishi's until you finally complete your collection it will be a good tradition to start.
You're going to get yelled at no matter what you do so you mine as well give her a good excuse to do it. Although you can soften the blow by ordering her something at the exact same time.
@@silvertip185 I see. I thought because LPL said it is a Schlage core that it also meant, Schlage produced the core and Abus just inserted it into their lock.
@@MhLiMz Nope. It just conforms to Schlage's keyway pattern. Every single driver pin was a security pin of some type; Schlage doesn't go to those lengths.
Very interested on the make up of the lock and the use of the device you used. It gives a lot better representation on what you are doing normally. You make it look so easy, but i know its now. Kudos to you.
He makes videos knowing new viewers watch them. This tool does make picking easier to fathom, and there's hundreds of videos showing traditional methods. He's not just here to please you imo.
@@ivanmac89 i mean yes it went from showing a craft which is super hard to master to i use this tool to pick which is available in my shop. But hey it’s his channel and i bet he’s making some dough from low skill people interested in picking residential locks.
I just got handed over a 42 year old lock from abus by my neigbour. The key is so rounded and milled i have to laugh everytime i see it. Still works absolutely flawless. Abus really makes nice locks
If you want something in a maritime outdoor area securely locked, just use a non-maritime lock. Just be ready to break it open when you need to get in.
Well, Abus *usually* makes high quality locks, and Schlage cores aren't terrible. Just LPL is quite good, the Lishi tool makes it easy, and the bitting wasn't all that impressive really. Plus there probably isn't much point in putting a $100 core in a lock that can be defeated with a big pair of bolt cutters.
I can't stop watching your videos despite having very little interest in lockpicking. I've only ever picked one lock, which was a tiny luggage lock that I put on a box to keep coins in when I was a kid. And of course all I did was comb it with the point of a straightened paperclip. And yet I keep coming back.
you're not thinking it through far enough. what are you going to do with all those picked bike locks? you're going to put them on other peoples bikes of course
Submariner here. No. Armed guards, extremely limited access ways, and a crew who *all* know who should - and should not! - be present is how we secure submarines. Oh, the nukes? They're secured with even more measures. Special Weapons' security is many-layered, and complex. The actual, uber-high-security, physical locks are the least of the measures.
Yes, and no. The price difference isn't much per lock.. but when the production run is high volume it adds up fast. Pretty much everything you own is made from the absolute cheapest garbage material, by the cheapest method, that's barely acceptable for the purpose.. because the manufacturer saves a buck per unit, and sells millions of units, making an extra couple of millions in profit.
Inventory, economy of scale, pin orientation, feeding mechanism. It’s much cheaper to carry one straight pin than multiple different ones with security features. Pins can get mixed up or jammed the feeder. Straight pins are much easier to handle. Lol.
I like how you zoomed in at the end. I would like to see in one video, maybe lining the pins up directly to the key for a more visual representation. However, I do enjoy watching all of your videos.
Hey LPL, I haven't watched all your videos but in case you haven't, could you make a video describing what the different kinds of driver pins do in a lock when you're lockpicking? Appreciate it!
I think I prefer the use of normal picks. Using the Lishi tools is fair because it's an available tool, but I would rather see you use standard picks for things like padlocks.
I like the visual aspect of the Lishi tools. We know he can open it with either, and this makes it much more visual. Also, there are probably 1000+ videos where he uses traditional tools, it is nice to mix things up.
There are plenty, he just doesn't make videos about them. For the last few years LPL has shifted his focus away from high security locks, and towards exposing locks that claim to be higher security than they actually are. This video is more about showing the tool than the lock.
Thanks for using that tool to help visualize what you are doing. Is nice to know you are listening to your audience, specially the ones like me that doesn't have any previous knowledge in lockpicking.
OH MY GOODNESS..... Not even the padlocks are safe from the Lishi invasion...It's amazing how quick this went from one of my favorite RU-vid channels to a giant informercial for $80 lock picks.
Hey LPL! I LOVE your channel, subbed literally after watching the first video and have been watching every video before and since, the skill and ability you have with picking is incredible and the way you work slowly, deliberately and thoroughly explaining everything just makes each and every video so much more entertaining and educational! I was just wondering, I know you get thousands of comments and doubt you'll see this one, but any chance you could maybe use a Lishi Tool on one of those locks with a clear lock body so we can see exactly what the tool is doing while it is inside the lock? Those tools look so amazing and seem like they would make picking much easier, though I am sure there is much more to it than meets the way. Anyways, thank you, so much for the awesome consistent content. You are doing an amazing job and have been since the beginning, thanks for always putting me in a better mood regardless of how my day has been whenever I see a new one of your videos is up, I appreciate you and the work you do. Cheers Mate! Andrew
@@VaneyRio as llortnerof says, in the lock itself. So if you push in the end stop and rotate opposite to normal operation it will expose the pins without the need of a follower or even taking the circlip off
@@peterjf7723 yes. It was the sub-mariner part that had me confused cause sub marine means under water in latin. Maybe just false advertising but the lock itself is relatively legit for above sea operation.
The mechanical bypass to the digital pushbutton electronic latch on my front door is an SC1 with security pins, just like this ABUS padlock, but the deadbolt is a MultiLock Chronus pin-in-pin with active element. I bet there's no Lishi for that. 😁
Talking about corrosion, could you make a video of you picking a decent lock brand new, and then after being aged outdoor with some corrosive agent applied regularly ? Maybe with a small sample size to give a stronger confidence in the insight gained by the experiment.
Hey lpl, I was wondering, when you mentioned standard drive pin and spooled pin. Have you ever, or plan to do, a video on the pros and cons of each type of pin and the best ways to pick them. I think that would be a good video and help a lot of people out.
Fun fact: "abus" in French literally means "abuse". As a native French speaker, I always found it pretty funny when I saw locks of that brand being sold here in Québec (francophone Canada).
I see a 4 minute video and my first thought is "That must be a pretty good lock to take so long", but then it's nope. LPL picked and completely disassembled it in the time it would take me to find the key for it to unlock my shed.
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