Watched enough of these and am starting to tell when the wave rake is coming out before it does due to how the keys look. Those teeth look little more than nubs.
LPL's wicked sense of humour is always a welcome appearance on his videos. I laughed a lot louder than I should have when he dumped the kiddie locks on the table.
I mean, he could have thrown a bunch of Master locks on the table... But then again, the kiddie locks would also be more pick-resistant... So what he effectively says is: It's still better than Master Lock.
I worked abouit 9 years for Kwikset in California and another 9 with Schlag in Colorado. Locks are often made with heavier components. Heavier, not necessarily better components. This due to the psychology that people buy locks by weight. Kwikset actually sponsored a study on this in the early 1990's.
wow, the toy drop at the end was the ultimate burn for this company. I hope the product engineer that made this POS is watching this and seeing their sales drop.
Just wanted to throw out a thank you for your videos! I lost the key to my storage unit, so I actually picked the lock (Master padlock) and it worked! It took me less than 30 seconds to open it once I put tension turner in the right direction 🤭. I know 30 seconds seems like a long time for experienced lock pickers, but I'm a 62 year old newbie lady. I'd say that's not too bad for a novice. Again, thank you! 👍
@@Ishpeck I think what I love most is that with how monotone he is, it's sometimes hard to tell the deadpan satire from the normal comments. I mean, it was SUPER OBVIOUS here, but other times it's a little hard XD
@@patu8010 Is there a market? Hell yeah there is a market. People want their shit behind a verifiably secure lock, sometimes "good enough" is what you're looking for, other times it's "it'd be easier to tear down the wall".
@@PaoloNovaro Doesn't matter much, to be honest, unless everything beside the lock is also high quality (which is rarely the case), someone trying to steal steal will just go around it using some faster destructive entry methods.
I love it how, when the first raking took just a bit longer than usual, he raked it not one more time like usual but rather two, just to establish dominance.
Ok, so several years ago I used PODS to move houses. I still have the disk lock they sold me. I just went and grabbed it from the garage and there's no PODS branding on it. I did notice a small hole in the back that lines up with the keyway. If I put pressure with the turning tool and stick a hook through the keyway and poke it out the hole in the back, I can just turn the lock open. No raking, no picking. I can't believe this "protected" half the contents of my house for several days in the driveway. I'm so glad I'm starting to learn more about this stuff.
This is absolutely funny. I was visiting my ma when the notification of this video came up, realised that she uses the same lock to protect some inexpensive garden equipment ( brooms, ect) in a storage cabinet outside on the patio. She bought it pretty recently too, same model. Showed this video to my ma, she didn't believe it. So I quickly went home (I live down the street) to bring my lockpicking tools to rake it myself like 10 minutes ago to show my ma. After two failed rake attempts, I could hear a click and when I pulled the rake out, I saw the cylinder still stuck in it. I was just as shocked as my ma. You can even see in this video how loose the cylinder is on his lock. I bet with a bit of force his would snap too. If I could post pictures in here, I'd show y'all. Pathetic lock. My ma loves you now, LPL :D
@@Nyx773 Yes, is it that hard to believe? I Literally live 3 houses down the street, a solid 2 minute walk from my Ma at most. (If i'm going at a snail's pace)
is it just me or is LPL getting more and more savage with each video? Can't blame him when the calmer "this isn't cutting it" keeps happening and locks are only getting worse it seems, I'd be pretty upset too if I had any investment in security. I'm loving it though btw, dropping in some toys had me rolling.
I had a similar Master lock on our hangar for decades. I never told my airplane partner, but once I forgot my keys, and opened the thing with the tools at hand. To be fair, I used to repossess motorcycles, so I was quite used to opening padlocks, but I didn't even have my lock kit! That was more than a decade ago. And I'm not shocked at the lack of progress.
Dear LPL, could you, in a future video, spend some time explaining the difficulties in manufacturing and the costs associated with adding serrated and/or spooled pins to a lock? I'm curious how easy or hard it is for manufacturers to provide better protection against the simplest of raking attacks.
My local U-Haul storage place requires all tenants to use these types of locks. If there's one thing that this channel has taught me, it's that the only effective protection of private property is a gun.
When he mentioned the "superior" protection I laughed. When I saw the rake come out I grimaced. When he picked it with no special spools I just shook my head. Great video yet again. Always a good time.
As someone who worked in the storage industry and has tons of experience with those types of disc locks, the only "cutting" protection it offers is against someone with a pair of bolt cutters. The way the lock is designed, the housing is usually too wide for most smaller bolt cutters to get around, and the exposed part of the shackle isn't that great once it's on a latch. A cordless angle grinder and a metal cut-off wheel will get through that lock in likely less than 30 seconds. The others with the thicker housing, probably around a minute to 90 seconds, tops.
Whenever the wave rake comes out I get this queasy feeling in my stomach that one gets when driving over a bump or experiencing a drop in a ride in an amusement park.
Every storage facility I ever used demanded I use their preferred lock and this one was the most common by a wide margin. Never knew why. I assume it has to do more with legal liability than actual security.
I see way too many products that have been used in government buildings on this channel. Still, always appreciate that subtle sass, makes the day a little brighter.
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Burns are getting hotter, and i absolutely love where this is going. :)
This is actually an amazing lock! My last was made of cardboard, so this is actually a massive upgrade. Tbh, it's similar to early IT Security. For the average Joe, even a terrible lock will pose a problem for untrained people, however there are more than enough humans in any given place that at least one criminal would have learnt to rake for security reasons.
Woah the comparison is brutal. I have seen LPL open stuff and mention the flaws but this is on another level. Thank you sir for a well presented video. ( spelling edit)
It’s not often that LPL makes an unsubstantiated claim. Until he’s raked that fire truck open, I am inclined to believe that the lock may have better pick resistance!
Really enjoying your content over here in Silver Spring, MD. Also, the tools your web site sells are terrific! Superior tools make the work easier and the hobby more enjoyable.
At this point, I’m convinced that LPL’s definition of“superior pick resistance” would have to involve: a depleted uranium casing, a shackle so precisely machined that it would be like of of those videos where you can’t see the cut lines in a block but then you lift it and a shape appears as if by magic, Gears made of tungsten, And any magnets involved would have to have an attraction force of 75lbs 😂
None of that would affect pick resistance. Moreover LPL isn't looking for an unpickable lock unpickable locks are few and far between the question is always how much time will it take to pick the lock. To that end it seemed clear he was looking only for spools/serrated pins to give this lock the benefit of the doubt.
In court with LPL as your lawyer: Your honor, my client is innocent. We can see here that the state's case is vulnerable to a simple bump attack. I'm going to take a try with this children's squeaky hammer and .... yep, the case falls apart.
You induced the most intense laugh I had in months! Thankfully I was watching you on the smartphone, and had no drinks in my hands - I would have spilled it everywhere. It is 16:00 BST now here, and a lovely weather complements the day - your masterstroke of indirect but strong humour has been the cherry on the virtual cake of today - only an expert alderman could have turned the purported meaning of the word "superior" upside down, in such skillful manner. The $15 your friend paid for this comic padlock are well worth all the laughs! My compliments! Anthony
This was the first lock I ever picked when I started picking locks a few months back as a hobby because I just happen to have this lying around from my move. Kinda jarring when I realized this was what was protecting my thousands of dollars worth of stuff in my pod
I have a lock similar to that I got from PODS and it was one of the first locks I was able to pick open. Only one pin needed to be pushed up and the thing opens. Also, comparing to toy locks was savage, nice job!
yep... I had a similar lock from CubeSmart literally if I didn't pull the key out just the right way, you would be able to open it just by inserting something just enough into the keyway to allow you to turn it. That was a fluke, though, as I previously got two others that did lock every time as expected, no finagling it to ensure it's properly locked.
I used to work in a social assistance program and we had a shipping container for storing donated furniture for our clients. It had one of those round locks. I knew it wasn't really secure but figured that anyone who got inside would only find old chairs and tables etc, and once the news got out to the 'I wonder what's in here' crowd, it was safe enough. The worst problem we had was one of our workers who kept losing his key, borrowing somebody else's and then losing that as well. We had to have lots of copies in the office because of this guy. I guess we should have had the key hanging on a hook near the lock.
I've found that with these types of locks, all you have to do is pop the last pin in the back and it opens right up. My father had gotten a few storage units a couple of years ago and they sold him 4 of those locks, saying that it's the only way he could get their guarantee/warranty on the units. I got pissed. I went down there, picked the locks off his units and brought them to the office. I had a talk with the clerk about how these locks are POS and I want them to refund my father. I picked them all in front of him. He said they were just defective. I made him take a brand new one out of the package and picked it right in front of him. Then another. I showed him how to pick it and also to do it with the flat part (back) of the pick, too! He called the manager and told them he just watched me pick all of the locks and that my father wants his money back. After some back and forth, my father was refunded and still had his guarantee. I threw some other locks from my collection on the units. They were not as easily pickable, but I wasn't having my father charged $15 per POS lock. These locks are so easy that someone standing in front of a unit picking one could do it so fast that you'd think they were just using a key.
I have one of these from my storage place. I used a different lock for my unit so they actually gave me this one for free where they normally charge $20. I've been thinking about sending it your way. I can get it open within 1-2 seconds with a single pin pick, so I can only imagine what you would do. It looks identical to this PODS one. They also sell the round body sliding combo lock of the same type
I'd love to see a McGuyver episode or series where instead of testing new locks, you test methods of lock picking from using common items against common locks.
Haha, I used a PODS shipping container this summer to move, but I did not use their lock (wasn't offered one), but rather put a Master No. 1 on it, which I have been repeatedly picking open for practice over the past week. I guess if anyone seriously wanted my stuff they would have had no difficulty getting it.
Could be worse - we were going through some stuff in an unused storeroom at work and found a petty cash box that was locked (cheap wafer lock) with no key. Took me about 5 seconds to open it with a paper clip. Everyone was amazed, but anyone that knows anything about picking probably would say it took me 5 seconds too long. :-D
Given the number of times i have had well-used disc padlocks like this seize up on me and be nigh unlockable -with the key- I can only imagine that that is the superior pick resistance they reference.
I've had to use several of these over the past decade. Damn things a prone to getting water into the works, which then freezes in cold weather, forcing one to need a heat source in order to unlock them. And the key's don't always match up right, so you have to muck with 'em to get them to unlock. Nope, real crap....
Having said all that, it's still easier to get into a POD via the side or just remove whatever the lock is attached to, so if someone would like to get whats inside a POD, they would not pick the lock, they'll just ignore it.
Could the "superior pick resistance" be a misunderstanding of the term of art, and they actually mean "superior bypass resistance", because you can't shim it?
Probably not; there is a "truth in advertising" law, but if there is no codified standard for "pick resistance" then you can legally put whatever the hell you want on your package. As far as I know. If I'm wrong, LPL's channel is going to be a gold mine of lawsuits...
This lock's superior anti-pick protection boasts a 20% improvement over other brands. With this design, it will take 5 seconds to pick compared to the 4 seconds protection other company offer.
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