Meanwhile in Peru, someone in Cantol's sales department is sitting there going "Why the hell have we suddenly gotten hundreds of orders from around the world?"
engineering department "we were on lock picking lawyer" oh no... "it was a 4 and a half minute video" OH YEAH!, "he said it was "not bad"" PAY RISES FOR EVERYONE!!!!
They actually did a good job with this lock! Well done. If they didn't watch this video yet, for sure they will soon notice an unexpected raise in the orders 😂
@@zyebormYou misspelled "BONUSES FOR THE EXECUTIVES!!!!!". When has an increase in corporate profits EVER lead to executives raising salaries without them being forced to?
The LPL says "not bad, it would take an experienced picker a little bit of time to get through it, and you're not gaining destructive entry without administering total destruction to the door or the door frame," what I hear is "this would be suitable security for pretty much any commercial or agricultural implementation in the States, and would be overkill for residential, but at $25 USD, Maxim 37 applies." I legit want to buy one now...
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Technically, it wasn't even picked a single full time since he'f have to do it all over three more times. I think this is the most pock resistant lock I've seen in this channel, except for the ones in his special drawer that LPL can't pick
Very few people could pick it 4 times in under 10 minutes to open. There may not be anyone in all of Peru capable of doing that. Even 5 minutes is a long time to be picking.
@@Mernom All night latches are like that. Here in the UK night latches are common. My front door has one and they have a switch on the inside that disengages the front side of the lock from the inside and when the switch is on the lever in the inside for opening the door is locked in place and so is the deadbolt to prevent the door opening or closing whilst in this position to prevent people locking themselves out because someone would need to be inside to turn the switch on whilst the door is closed. Another benefit to nightlatches is when you turn the lever THEN engage the switch deadbolt stays retracted so if you are in a scenario where you need the door opened but dont want to keep pulling out your keys then it is useful like that too. These locks are common on almost all wooden doors here in the UK and most of the doors not using these types of locks are plastic and composite type doors. Although night latches in the UK are common they are nothing like this. In the UK most night latches only require a 1/4 turn up to 12/ to retract the bolt from the outside but on my front door we have TWO locks and when we are not going to be home for a considerable period of time we use the 2nd lock too because that one is just a deadbolt with no spring so it doesn't spring open and when the deadbolt is out can only be put inside with the key. That 2nd lock is just an additional security for when no one is home we also have a door chain on the inside for extra security
@@Typical.Anomaly Let's hope not, I was going to ask them if they were really a Mr, but if the "H" does stand for Hostage it may have caused them to have a mental breakdown.
@@danielreed5199 honestly this was supposed to be in reply to a different comment, but I do appreciate the humor! LOL. I’ll go back trying to remove the shackles and bag that is over my head.
"Blindada" means "armored" in Peru, and these locks are called "chapas" and are extremely common and notoriously difficult to operate because of the different motions of the key. You're much more likely to get a forceful entry or armed entry than a lock picker in Peru.
Makes sense that threatening the lock owner is easier than picking the lock... I prefer security through obscurity. Don't show your cards if you can help it...
Statistically speaking, you're more likely to get a forceful entry in the US too, either raw "kick the door down" or the slightly sneakier "convince the homeowner to come to the door and shove a gun in their face".
@@fresnel149got any sources for that? Because the convicted burglars I’ve seen all look for the easiest way in. They don’t want you to know they were there until you get home. They’re certainly not going to kidnap you in your own home. Too many variables out of their control.
@@daqq reminds me of the xkcd comic featuring a laptop with unbreakable encryption in the first panel. Second panel: hit the owner with a $5 wrench until they give up the password.
Pretty common in Europe. So you'll very likely find it (or similar) on fleabay if you switch to localized versions. Then... you have to contact the seller and hope they're willing to send it to you. I've had luck in the past with this method. Caveat, i am in Europe, so if you're outside Europe, your mileage may vary, as the saying goes.
As this style automatically locks when you close the door, the switch is often used to hold the latch open as well. This allows you to bring in groceries without worrying that the door will close locking you out.
@@Jimwill01 I will assume Latin countries, based on the example of the one I live in, that they have a tendency to use metal louver windows, you may find one open but you will have to cut the metal slats to get into. Odds are that there will also be bars either inside or outside the window. My house in Puerto Rico is a bit of a bunker, like every other concrete house in my vicinity, they are ugly but safe.
@@Jimwill01 in peru, windows are not a weakness for the same reason these nearly rediculous locks are used. Because of a culture of "its mine if nobody stops me", we suffer constant issues with home invasions and petty larsony. As such, every window on the ground and 1st floors are built with bars extending into the cementwork of the home.
In spain these sort of locks are common, even if with different types of keys. We tend to laugh when a cop just kicks a door in in the movies. Here all you'd get is a broken foot XD
I live in Peru and I've got one of these on my front door, back door and front gate - everyone does. I was nervous when I saw Peru in the title of an LPL video, but wow that was praise indeed! Go Peru!
Wow, ... do the houses that have this have bars on their windows? I can't imagine anyone messing with this thing in the wild and choosing a brick through a window instead.
@@halphillips1775Sadly, bars over the windows of homes are pretty common across South America, even places in the middle of nowhere. Peru is no exception.
Agreed! I wonder if picking it once and flipping it three more times would work or be done reliably, or if one would have to pick it twice after a failed flip.
@@fauxque5057 Maybe it's done in intervals, like use the flipper to rotate something like 90 to 180 degree, leaving a margin to reload the flipper, manually rotate in position again, so one would end up doing 3 individual flips after the initial picking. I agree that 3 flips all at once sounds like it would hang up at some point.
When the Picking starts U hear the first 3 klicks and u smile" thats going to be fast. After the third run down the Pins, u just starring at the video with disbelive. Mouth gaping Open. That was unexpected!
This is probably the best thought out/designed lock I’ve seen him do here. I’d put this on my garage and rest easy knowing there’s no one in town who’s going to open it. Great presentation! Glad to see you posting again LPL!
@@guilhermebrune that makes more sense lol I was reading it literally and where I'm from, that word refers to being hit or hitting. Latin America has a lot of regional words.
I've seen it picked in Mexico. Interestingly the technician used a common grocery throwaway plastic bag to avoid multiple picks. After the first pick he packed the keyway with the bag thin bag to hold the pins in place enabling three turns of the core without re-picking.😆
Similar to Japan. There was a need to beef up security and pick resistance so Miwa developed the U9 lock with a 9 lever mechanism (similar to the British Ingersoll 10 lever mechanism). There locks are used everywhere in Japan but do not seem to be exported since they apparently infringe some overseas patents. LPL does not seem to have done a video picking the U9 but he would probably reckon it is a pretty good lock.
It is absolutely ridiculous how fast, and easy he picks locks. Crazy!!! So much fun to watch. My daughter picked her first padlock a couple of weeks ago. The smile on her face! She felt like a spy😂
I remember 'picking' my first combination lock as a kid, listened to a change in the clicks under tension 'like in the movies' I felt like such a ninja hahaha :)
I would definitely put this in the "more secure" category, especially for Peru. I'm sitting in Arequipa right now, surrounded by these types of locks. I already did a check and every key I've come across is made up of 5 pins, so to see 7 would be unusual, in my limited experience.
Can confirm they're big in Peru for front doors. They're paired with big metal doors or metal frames with glass paneling, if you want to spice it up a little
My brother has lived in Peru for a couple decades. The mindset there is "When and How Often" will your house be broken into, not "if" it will be broken into. Locks like the above, bars on windows, broken glass on walls. All surely help and are better than nothing, but your house is likely to broken into at some point.
I live somewhere else in the world where house breaking is not as common, yet we STILL have bars in the lower floor windows, amored doors, and overengineered secure deadbolts everywhere. It just makes sense.
I was waiting for this day to happen, when you review one of the Peruvian locks or padlocks. Yes, we have lots of these here, usually the outer frame has a metal bar bolted from the insides to prevent crowbars and stuff. Usually there is a metal plaque preventing the unscrewing of the bolt mechanism.
Well now … As a residential door installer for over 35 years in North America ( mainly on the east coast of Pa., NJ. & DEL .,,I’ve installed literally thousands of entry doors and their lock sets …. Both high end pricey products and the most “ BO-BO” of box store crap …. With that said .. This looks to be one of the more secure designs and construction.. Although.. Because “ designer looks and styles “ are part of the curb appeal for most front doors … it’s questionable about how often someone would buy this even if it’s actually available in the U.S. . So I hearken back to what I learned back in 1986 when I was 19 just learning from my Italian teacher contractor guy “ Capo Mastro”. in His broken English… “ eh Nick …. LOCKS ARE FOR HONEST PEOPLE “ 👌🏼
My thinking is re-target it from residential to commercial (non-customer-facing, like back doors), light industrial (automotive garages), and agricultural; places where looks are not a priority, but 'took the LPL a minute to pick once & needs to be picked four times,' 'the doorframe will give way before the lock does,' and 'actually not very expensive' would be the key selling points.
In continental Europe (I am in UK) double-lock deadbolts used to be common, and I know they still are in Spain. Then the crappy snappable Euro lock was introduced. I wish we had these double/quad deadlocks. (A friend lives in Edinburgh New Town, and his grand house has a lock to his 3" thick outer front door with a cathedral key about 8" long. It puts burglars off, but his trouser pockets get holed rapidly).
As Spaniard, I confirm this kind of deadbolts are the most common lock, mostly in pre-00s residential buildings. New construction usually uses Euro locks now.
@@chemapoblador8368 Can you still buy the double-lock deadlocks? If so, next time I'm in Spain (no - I do not search for fish and chips, British beer, and turn lobster-red from sunbathing, although I was once told off in Barcelona for pronouncing cerveza in the Castilian fashion!) I'll buy some.
@@frogandspanner Buy a FAC deadbolt. They are quite good. So good that most burglars don't even bother with them. And next time someone in Barcelona gives you trouble over the accent when ordering a beer, you can troll them (disclaimer: this does not represent my views on beer nor politics, just a way to troll someone who cares too much about either as to harass a tourist over either) with a friendly reminder of WHERE the beer is made! (spoiler: the three most popular brands of beer in all of Spain, Barcelona included, are made two in Madrid and one in Seville) 😀
Good design it combats the most likely way of deafeating a lock, which is brute force . No one picking a lock to get in a house they will pry the door or kick it in fast and easy.
I feel proud watching you review a Peruvian lock. I’ve been following your channel for years. And yes, Cantol is one of the best lock companies here. By the way, the word Cantol is pronounced something like ‘can’t’ (as in ‘cannot’) and ‘all.’ Thank you very much, sir!
I stayed in Ecuador for a month and immediately noticed the locks there are way more substantial than what we are used to in the US. The place we stayed at actually had deadbolts at the top and bottom of the doorway. And even the hinge side of the doorway had bolts that would mesh with the frame when it was closed. So it was bolted all the way around which would make it very difficult to beach with brute force. And the lock couldn't be operated at all without the key even from the inside.
Just on pure time math, this lock is about 60 times better in pick resistance than the usual locks we see on this channel, (4 sec vs 60*4 sec) Amazing lock, I want one
As one who frequently travels to Peru, my spouse is Peruvian, these and similar brands are common there. We even have the mounting plate welded to a metal door for one of our doors. The number of rods that the lock has depends on the model of the lock. Some of the locks use your typical beveled tang like we commonly have in our regular door lock here in the USA, this allows for quick entry/exit, three more turns and the other rods extend or retract. I recommend getting lots of spare keys made there, because getting duplicates here will be a challenge. Forte is a major competing brand in Peru.
I'd like to see if you could get it open with that special switch flipped. Does that render picking entirely useless? Or is there some piece of a milk jug trick to get it to reengage?
No, loiding the lock does not work... the latch directly locks into a gap in the sliding lock plate, and only disengaging that latch allows the center bar to retract. Since about half the doors here are steel or steel faced, it requires a person drilling a hole through the door and a turning tool of some sort to open if accidentally engaged. Thankfully it does not engage from the outside, and the door cannot close if it is engaged while open, so we only have to do this when the person inside is unresponsive.
The switch is used as a second lock. The door can be lock closed, or even locked "open." If you're carrying your groceries into the house, you wouldn't want the door to close and have to unlock it every time. If it's locked open, you can just push the door without having to use the key. Yes, the switch on the side makes the keyway unusable. The switch is essentially a deadbolt for the door plunger
I was looking to replace our Yale night latch. Was originally looking for BS4 Maximum Security Nightlatch but now I'm on the lookout for this Peruvian lock.
1.5 minutes for LPL to pick it 1/4 times... Honestly a pretty solid lock. As LPL said, it's really nice seeing one that hard latches into the bolt, so it can't just be wedged open.
In all my years watching this channel I'd have to say this is definitely one of the top-10 best "off the shelf right out of the box" home deadbolts I've ever watched you demonstrate. That's fairly hard to acquire these days! Usually you'd spend a lot of time modifying off the shelf deadbolt solutions to get about half as much security.. And I may try to acquire one these myself as my own front door has a single hole for a deadbolt (no knob) and the idea behind that according to my landlord is make sure 1) you can't lock yourself out unless you lost your key while out and 2) prevents you from having an unattended unlocked door (an idea I actually now support)
The fact you simply cannot open it from the outside thanks to that switch is a game changer. The actual picking itself becomes completely redundant. Then having to pick it four times to unlock it. You could put the crappiest lock ever into that thing and it just wouldn't matter. You'd probably have an easier time just trying to take the door off the hinges than opening this lock!
I used to live in Colombia and even there those types of locks are super common in every apartment, the door on mine even had a fairly heavy metal door. The sound of the multiple key turns brings back memories.
Surface mount locks were popular in Poland some 20 years ago. Only we usually didn't have a lock on the inside. Just a knob (or a thumbscrew or whatever you call it)
These are very common across a lot of South America. They're all over Mexico, and I saw a lot of them in Argentina and Peru. I've been to those three places a lot, but haven't travelled much in S. America otherwise, though I always assumed this is the standard. I definitely have a childhood sensory memory of pulling the latch and like how spring loaded it felt.
@@rafael_lana ya ya, Im Mexican, but dont think we need to discuss the identity politics of North, Central, and South America in a comment on a video about locks. Can we at least agree that Argentina is actually Europe? lol
@@telemundie dude, politics are subject to discussion, but geography is not. Mexico, Canada, the U.S.A, and also hilariously the U.K. (by virtue of Bermude), Denmark (by virtue of Groenland) and France (by virtue of Saint Pierre and Miquelon) *ARE* in North America.
I had a couple of 14 pin dimple locks a few years ago 2 rows of 6 and 2 angled pin various spools. That was my baptism to lock sport . Thank you for years of hints and tips. I wish I still had said locks would have love to see you pick one . I learned because I took one apart to see how it worked. All the best
I wish you had disassembled it to see what it did have inside. Thanks for sharing this great system. Searching for this one I found out there are other series, the 800, 900, and 1000
Question for Americans: This lock's night latch feature (where you can flick a switch on the inside to make the lock un-openable from the outside) is very common in UK homes and I gather in other parts of the world, but I've gotten the impression based on comments that they're kind of rare in the United States. Is that true, or have I gotten the wrong idea?
Depends on your luck or if you care about locks when you decide on a place. There's a lot of places where the build saves money in every direction it can, locks included. Often, to make up for the deadbolt, a chain lock is added which is common, knob lock, deadbolt, & chain lock. But you can get anything. That is, it's a tri-lock system that's common.. any single lock is easily by passed, but when all three are not only installed properly but also engaged, it's a bit of security
Considering most locks are generally to prevent some random dude who thought he found a good opportunity (woe is you if an experienced picker decides to target your house), this is a lock I'd probably buy
Even with the "not something that would stop an experienced picker for too long" comment, not bad is high praise and the video was more than 4 minutes for picking a single lock without taking it apart afterwards to see what's inside. So I'd feel pretty secure with this lock on my door, given that it'd probably need to be picked 3 more times just to get it open once.
The amount of praise here is rarely seen on any other products LPL reviews. If this lock really sells for only $25, this may be the best value lock ever seen on this channel!
Refreshingly proper and novel concept, rarely do I see something new and feel like "I'd recommend that" immediately. Major props to whoever came up with this design!
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