A couple weeks ago my wife needed a new locker padlock at the gym/pool she goes to due to a rash of thefts and the prevalence of cheap Master combination locks (including hers). Thanks to this channel I was quickly able to veto about 95% of the locks for sale at the hardware store we went to as being just as crappy, if not even worse, as what she was already using.
@@BL-yj2wp A brass five-pin Yale padlock with a hardened steel shank. I figured nobody was cruising the locker rooms with bolt cutters, lock picks, or other burglary tools. The vast majority were Master locks that you could open with a harsh glare and a wag of your finger, and really cheap storage unit locks like he did a couple weeks back. Honestly, for an Ace Hardware you'd expect better options.
@@BL-yj2wp A few rolls of duct tape. We all know duct tape around a lock keeps LPL busy longer than any lock can. And if you want you still can add a few rats and cockroaches and Mark Robers glitter bomb inside of the locker and you should be fine.
We had a pick party after Thanksgiving dinner that went over big. Got 12 Master locks of various sizes, mostly old some new, and a bunch of picks and turning tools. Had a blast watching people who never picked a lock fiddling around watching RU-vid videos. It was great.
Maybe it's a lock they only sell in bulk, hence why it comes in a plain box. The lock information would be on the wholesale outer packaging that contains all the smaller boxes inside.
I've purchased genuine ASSA high quality locks in person from an ASSA owned retailer and they came in generic zip lock bags . At over $200 for the set .
@@timweber4318 probably. But old doesn't mean bad. This where really reliable, good locks. Never had any problems with it. We changed the lock only, because we became a new front door, and the old lock was to short for the new door.
Probably because until then they were a standalone company before being purchased by Assa-Abloy. Seems like Assa-Abloy keep a number of brands under their "hat", but still keep the various brand uniqueness alive. Could be that they have standardized on pins and springs but housings could vary. Primarily by market. It might be an interesting deep dive to look at that company and how the various brands are kept alive.
Those are quite common in German hardware stores as a medium price range (around 15 to 20 Euros) lock. I have one on my trailer's hitch lock. Until now, the trailer hasn't been stolen ;)
Well that does not have to mean anything. I had a garage that could not be locked for a few years ant nothing got stolen. I'm 100% sure it wasn't the quality of the locks that kept thieves out of the garage.
"Ships from Bulgaria," according to one site that sells it. There was also one sold recently on eBay from Sofia, Bulgaria. It turns out Assa Abloy has a manufacturing facility in Varna, Bulgaria, though they apparently operate there under the name Dekaba.
We used 2 of these locks in the garden to secure the storage of our tools and the main building. After 5 years both looks stopt working and we weren't able to turn the core to open the lock. After a lot of work, I managed to open the lock and something fell out, I believe that it was the part of the core that holds the springs and pins in place. Took me about 30 - 40 minutes to open each lock without powertools.
he needs a door mounted on a frame and a latch and do it standing up with the lock actually locked to something just like he would actually have to do in real life..
@@DAVE_WHITE: Nah, he'd spend way too much time mounting locks on door frames. Besides, in many ways, it's actually more difficult to pick an unmounted lock.
Multiple spools, decent amount of pins, good quality workmanship - definitely above average, and something that will turn away inexperienced pickers and many simple attacks. Basically, if it’s in a public place and you aren’t being attacked by an expert, this will at least get them noticed before they open the lock.
It has security pins and required him to pick at least pin 1 twice. LPL is extremely skilled at lockpicking so it took him about as long as it'd likely take me to open a masterlock with a wave rake. The novice lock picker will probably be working on this lock for several minutes at the minimum. It would deter the casual thief who'd find a less secure target. A determined intruder would probably resort to a destructive attack to the lock or whatever it was securing to get in. In other words, it's perfectly fine for a gym locker or possibly a shed (depending on its weather resistance) but probably not how you'd want to secure your piles of gold bricks.
The title has a typo. It’s listed as video 1477, when the previous video is video 1576, then 1575, and so on. In reality, the video should be video 1577. Just thought I’d point that out as it’s been a day since the posting of this video and the typo has yet to be corrected. Aside from that, stellar work as usual LPL!
Lol .... I just had a random thought. It would be hilarious if storage wars hired you to open the locks on the storage containers rather than them using bolt cutters lol
I think that a lot of the time they just do it for show. I've noticed quite a few times the locks are cheap dollar store junk that nobody would really use on a storage locker.
Lol. All of those lockers have already been opened and staged for the show. They've been accused of planting items to make the show interesting. Next time you watch one look at the sides of the boxes. Many of the name brands have brown tape over the logos.
@@fauxque5057 That's the tell-tale sign. Who puts tape over the brand names of boxes in their storage unit just in case a TV company starts filming when it's first opened after you've abandoned it years later???
I love that z lock picked in seconds is "above average" XD I Know he's a super experienced lockpicker but still. "Hmm, yeah it;s above average pick resistance"
He only picked it once, I’ll need him to pick it again to show me it was not a fluke 🤪 Also just noticed the video is labelled 1477, shouldn’t it be 1577??
I know, it’s a joke. Rakes and other low skill methods can occasionally fluke the lock open hence the do it twice test but I’m never here early enough to make a joke usually so I took my opportunity and I regret nothing.
I didn't catch it on sale but I just ordered one of your Genesis kits. Going to add it to my stable of trusty old Southord stuff that i've had for years. Haven't picked for fun in a while. Last pick was to help my brother get a hitch lock off of his truck that he'd long misplaced the key for. Which was only probably about 2 years ago. Before that the only opportunity i've had to put my picks to a real world test was to help my brother's now ex-wife's parents get their keys out of their shed after locking them in. Anyways very glad to see that you're selling your own hardware now. Can't wait to get mine, Will probably upgrade eventually to the larger set. Happy New Year!
My storage facility uses these exact ones. They gave me one when I rented space to put on my door and I figured they were cheap but It's indoor space and camera monitored halls. The people are there 24/7 and it's gated access only.
I've got one of these. I'm a novice picker & gave up trying to pick it after about 2 hours. This guy's incredible skillset should not be underestimated!
he did come in first place in a picking competition by a significant margin so im not surprised he accidentally beast modes it on cheap locks like this
I have one of these in my unused lock box. It secured a cargo container in the woods for at least 3 years and seems to be free of corrosion and is perfectly functional. The container also had one of those master lock combination locks that can be popped open in 2 seconds. All the wheels seem to want to turn in unison and it barely opens. Edit: I'm fairly certain I purchased this at Atwoods or Northern in the USA.
I don’t know how your channel appeared in my feed, but you are awesome. I may be able to make a hobby out of this. I’m working on a jobsite that has been shut down/abandoned since 2011, and there were locks on everything outside. I had to check for power for the grading guys, so I had to carry a drill and a 1/4” bit to drill all the locks out to get them open to check for power. The superintendent went through with a grinder cutting a few. I got 6 to his 3. Also, he got stung. There were wasps in every thing we opened, but they got him in action while grinding. It would’ve been really to go in and pick 5 while he was grinding on one getting stung! I mean that’s bad but still would’ve been cool to exploit such a skill.
Oh! I used to have one of those to lock my bicycle! It's a great average lock, although after several years of use exposed to the elements it created enough resistance that eventually the key broke off in the lock. Still, it was only 20 EUR from a bike lock shop, so just good enough to deter bicycle thieves.
The shipping container we have has one of these types of locks. It's protected by a metal cover welded to the container, there's just enough room to reach up inside to get the key in the lock, locking picking tools wouldn't fit. Maybe they welded the cover on because they knew how easy the locks are to pick.
My sister just got screwed over by both her storage facility and a locksmith. She lost the key to her lock on the day of her move, so the facility said they had someone who could cut it off. She got there and they said they had no such person and that she would have to call a locksmith. He couldn't figure out the lock so he just hit it with a grinder. Total bill? $400. To show up and spend two minutes cutting a storage unit lock. So yeah, I just ordered the learning kit from Covert Instruments. We're not dealing with that again.
It is nice to see that LPL is going back to basics again. As much as I love this channel, I am getting quite bored with videos that have nothing to do with actual lock picking. There were several videos with bags being tested on being cut and/or slash proof, wrenching locks, destroying locks with a Ramset and car door locks always being opened with a Lishi. And I admit; those Lishi's are brilliant, but somehow a Lishi in the hands of LPL just doesn't seem quite right. I loved the video's where LPL is making short work of really beefy, well engineered locks such as the Squire's and ERA's. I really would like to see those kind of locks return on this channel. Also the mysterious packages sent in by viewers that are being opened on camera. The old locks that are probably forgotten by many that originate from all over the world, a history lesson that comes with it about the lock.... And I am quite sure that, like me, there are many more people who would want to see LPL finally picking the Bowley lock.
I'd like to see tips on picking this kind of lock in it's natural form, meaning when locked to something you have to pick it upside down. A motion many may be unused to.
Hey LPL, are there any locks on the market who you would say there are truly pick resistant? The bowley Lock maybe? Are there any news on the it? Did you pick it?
IIRC these are basically B2B bulk models. Thus the plain-cardboard-box packaging and meager online footprint. Neither party wanna deal with wasteful and cumbersome retail packaging when buying and deploying a couple of hundreds or several thousands of these things.
I picked my first cheapo Masterlock today using the CI starter kit. I can get it open most tries in about 20 seconds. I don't really know HOW I'm doing it, but I am doing it.
Hi Mr LockPickingLawyer. I work in IT and occasionally need to open rack cabinets with lost keys and sometimes standard padlocks. If I were to get the covert companion is there anything else I could need?
The looseness of the cylinder (moving forward and back) is something I've found on poor quality versions of this type of lock which oddly (just like roughly machined pins in pig iron padlocks) can make them a little more awkward to pick. I would have thought it was a sign that this IKON lock is a cheap copy, also having a brass cylinder not steel, but I wouldn't have expected security pins in a cheap copy lock. So it's a odd thing indeed.
I used grind these every month getting into unpaid storages. Then I started drilling out the core. Both a pain in azz. I wish I had learned this skill back then. I would have impressed the crap out of the facility owner.
I know that Assa Abloy sometimes brands products of their other subsidiaries as IKON products for the German market, to capitalize on the brand recognition or something along those lines. Things like Abloy Protec locks are available with Ikon branding at some German locksmiths. Could it be that this disc lock is made by a different manufacturer that does business under the Assa Abloy umbrella?
Whenever I watch one of our hosts videos, I am reminded of the old phrase that locks only serve to keep honest people honest! Folk with criminal intent are getting in regardless.
I saw a bunch of about two dozen of these disc locks and they had a bunch of different types of keys. I am guessing you can easily replace the key lock in these with whatever you want. Some were really cheap others were really expensive
Most of them don't have replaceable cores cos they're welded together in the factory. Many many manufacturers make these types of lock and some make several different grades of them too.
LPL, it looked like you were applying quite a bit of pressure on the turning tool, (more than I generally see) is that common for this type of lock or just because it had spools and you didn't want to lose the pins already set?