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6:00 My heart kinda sank when I saw you fumbling about with a tape measure when you literally have a cutting board with measurements right in front of you. Lmao.
Very true. Recently I had to borrow my wife’s car on a rainy day and her blades were worse than useless. I stopped at AutoZone for new ones and the trash can outside was overflowing with spent wiper blades.
Best video I have seen. I was about to pay $20 + $10 shipping for multiple Tension wrenches now I just went to auto parts trash can and have 20 Tension wrenches (9.5 x 0.3cm). Thank You for this Great Video!
I've found that the bristles from street sweepers are awesome. If you see a street sweeper in a parking lot at night, spend a few minutes looking around that parking lot the next day and you may find a couple that broke off. They aren't pretty, but are nice spring steel and the dimensions are perfect for tension wrenches. Their thinnest dimension is actually thinner than what you have in this video, and being spring steel, they handle the pressure as well as (if not better than) the thicker stock but give you more room in keyways. I spend a minute or two with high-grit sandpaper to smooth the faces before I start bending or cutting. The grocery store I go to most often has a pretty overzealous sweeping schedule, and over the course of a six month period, I was able to find enough bristles to last me decades _and_ hand some over to some of my locksport friends. All I did was park at the end of the first set of stalls and look on one side of the walkway going in to the store and the opposite side on the way out. I'd choose a different lane each visit and averaged around six bristles per week, going to the store one or two times each week. I have learned to love making the wrenches so they're "bent the other way," so that once bent, the are as flat as the metal is thin. You have to use a torch and get the metal glowing hot, but most metal appropriate for a tension wrench will bend this way beautifully when hot enough. It takes a bit of practice to get a pretty bend, but once you figure it out it's easy. Once bent to the angle you want it, heat it up again and use your pliers to flatten it out since they usually want to twist a little bit. Note that if you make wrenches like these, the body will be pointing vertical, not horizontal.
What I added to the design is that I took a triangular file and with the edge I made some serrations on the sides of one end of an otherwise symmetrical Z-wrench (I copied it from some pry bars). This greatly improves the stability if you use it top of the keyway so it doesn't slip out that easy. If you want to use it bottom of the keyway I like the smooth end better because otherwise it might bind up at the sleeve (and it usually doesn't slip out that easy anyways)
The end of the blade with a groove that you cut and discarded at minute 7:45 is useful to make a pick, other teacher on youtube shows how to do it right.
Street sweeper machines shed bristles very often. I use them to make picks as well as tension wrenches. A small bit of heat from a handheld propane torch allows you to curve them upwards enough to make some high ended picks.
Sad to hear they are going to a cheaper, more brittle insert in the new wiper blades. If you live in a city, you can find street sweeper blade's on the street, and they work also. Excellent video on the lowly tension wrench buddy. They don't get the Wow factor of a pick, but having the correct tension wrench can make all the difference between wether you get into the lock, or not. You covered everything in detail. I really enjoy watching your videos. It's like I'm sitting in your living room, and you are teaching me how to do something with locks, without interruption. 😁 Because in an actual training situation, questions come up all the time, and it can take forever to finish your lesson. Video instruction, combined with hands on experience, is the way to go. It all depends upon your instructor, and your ability to understand, and implement the material. Don't think something is too mundane to be of interest to anyone. I will watch anything about Lock Picking. You never know when you will learn something very useful. Bravo mate! 👏
William Mancel thank you for watching :-) it's good never to assume knowledge, at some point someone starts from a position of no knowledge and I hope this video covers the bases :-)
you can also just pinch the end of the wiper and flex/pull the end towards the middle of the blade. thats what those notches at the end are for(manufacture). you have to over pinch so the notches pass and over flex the middle so the blade shortens enuf to pull out of the tangs. lil safer/quicker not sure you can be trusted with a razor ;)
Great video! I think these were the first tools I made when I started picking 😃 I've never been able to manage making an actual pick from any though, I think because of the width of the inserts (mentioned by Leon's comment)
If the steel breaks when you bend it that means it's good spring steel and you'll have to do some heating to anneal it before bending - then heat it again and quench it after bending.
Protip if you gonna ask a garage for them: don't underestimate the power of some cookies or cake :D or friday afternoon bring some beers. Think that will bring the success rate as close to 100% as you can get haha
It had been raining for days. I went for a walk tonight for exercise and passed an auto parts store. Out of curiosity I went and looked. The front trashcan was a gold mine for wiper blades. I must have looked peculiar walking home with a big bundle of used wipers.
Older video… but maybe some tips…. Your local scrap yard / junk yard / pick-n-pull yard is a gold mine for these things…. Wiper blades engine dip stick Transmission dip stick Power steering fluid dip stick On the wiper blades, I always take the metal out and leave the rest. Most junk yards want $1 for used wiper blades, but I’ve been given as many as 30 metal inserts for free… at times they’ll charge a quarter. Same with the dipsticks… i take just the ‘stick’ portion…. Other uses for these, beyond tension rods… One is poking clogged sink drains. Another is a hook for getting things out of tight spaces, such as behind furniture, or between car seat and center console. BTW.. another item I love grabbing from older vehicles are the radio antennas… the straight single rods are stainless steel.;; if they are bent, i always get them free.. i just count them as ‘shorter rods’. The gold ones are the ancient retractable ones.. these get me four to six aluminum tubes… I use some of these things in my modeling hobby…
My brother in law works at an auto parts place. He got me a dozen old wipers. I disassembled them and all of the inserts are approximately .247 wide .040 thick. Now I did find some metal stock suitable for tension tools. I used brazing rods. Copper, phosphorous, silver alloy. .124 wide and .050 thick
Made loads of these,they work equally as good as bought ones,I use a 6" shifting spanner to bend them and bend them upwards,My local garage is starting to wonder what the F*** I`m doing though I think lol :D
Great info bud ! thanks for sharing, I have bad luck when looking for inserts, the only ones i ever find are the thinnest ones, but the other day while walking home from my doctors office, I finally found the thickest one, lol so i was able to use it to make 2 different width tension wrenches
Great Tips... I want to give a go at making some of my own picks. I work in warranty return parts for a major automotive group, and pi[er blades I get a lot back, because they just replace them under the 12 month contract every oil change service... plenty of stock. I'm disappointed you cut that that end off with the notch in it. Had the makings of a good single pick. My inserts do not have that. Just flat stock. Oh, and as I mentioned before, I have a dremel hehehe with hundreds of profile grinders... just getting started, gonna be a fun new hobby.
I used to snip off the end with the notch in it as well, but then I started to just break off the part just after the notch. This way I have a pre-made end for a TOK wrench. I then just file it down to the proper depth so that it doesn't touch the first pin, and add some serrations on the inside of the notch.
The quality of the steel matters less when you perform the bending operations on hot metal. Heated to the low end of red hot the metal will allow you to easily bend it to a crisp 90° corner without snapping. Drop the tool into a shot glass of used cooking oil to quench. Mind your fingers, it's easy to get burned when hot fabricating. A gas station jet style lighter would suffice as your heat source.
I think it's a good idea to smooth the edges of the wiper blade before you cut and bend it - it's just easier to do when it's in one long strip. You can then round the ends after cutting. Also, the notch at one end might be useful to make a top of the keyway wrench that has a narrower tip than the rest of the wrench. - just cut it off somewhere along the notch rather than cutting the notch off and throwing the end away.
Great first homebrew wrench video mate. I have done a couple of tutorial videos years ago and love and still use the ones I made as you can play to your hearts content and add twists too. Funny enough I was playing with a closed shackled Legge padlock yesterday and used a wrench I made for middle of the keyway. It was a bit of wiper insert I had left and thought I would just add twists here and there and is great.
i just want to mention that the notch that you cut out could work really well for top of the keyway tension if you trimmed it leaving about half a centimeter of the thin part on the end so in theory you could have the best of both world with minimal effort
not sure where you're getting the 3mm wide pcs from....i just got 6 blades from auto parts trash and the thin stainless in those was only 2.5mm. We'll see how they work. Good video.
very nice video buddy great info.the new type of wiper blades on modern car is not that good it spits and cracks easy the old style ur useing now is much better and getting harder to get a hold of.im a machanic we dont order the old ones anymore so get them wile u can😊👍👍👍😊
Leon's lockpad I keep a lookout for wiper blades from larger trucks to see if they have any wider/thicker inserts (so far not much luck). At work we do a lot of our own maintenance so I've got a pile of the new style.
My friend gave me a couple wiper inserts he had. I didn't realize how much thicker they were than the ones I pulled out of my wiper blades until I was actually working on them to form tension wrenches. I kept saying to my wife, that I must not be feeling well because I don't remember having such a difficult time bending and twisting the metal before. It wasn't until the next day when I compared my tension wrenches to the new one I just made. LOL.
Nice tension wrench making tutorial :). I have experienced a lot that when you bend them over a sharp edge of the pliers, they break easy. So bending them only a little and the rest with the hand (and a little more rounded) is sometimes better. Also not that easy to find them, many new are these flexy one bladed and even the traditional ones often are complete plastic inside the rubber :(. I file the edges round in the vice before bending ;), it's a little more easy :).
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Check Auto Inspection places if they are required in your area. These people try to find things wrong with your car and wiper blades are constantly being replaced, raining or not. Also, if you go to junk yard, oil dipsticks are great and usually a thicker gauge.
Most diagonal cutters are made for copper so you’re eating into the life/sharpness of them by using them on SS. They have to play a balancing act with hardening and tempering the tool steel and, being designed for copper, they are going to be tempered back a bit. Looks like it worked okay though. You can also “cut” the inserts by gripping them tightly with locking pliers and flexing them back and forth until they snap.
Do tapered edges give an advantage to parallel edges? Do you use the ends (with the cut-outs) to make TOK tools? Why are L and Z tension tools included in every kit, its as bad as hex keys in socket, spanner and wrench sets?
Hello, don't be tired, if it is possible for you to teach how to make a buffer and different types of tools, such as the diameter and type of metal, please specify.
I have some OEM subaru like that which WERE spring steel. Some stock is better than others. I also do some home gunsmithing and one can never have enough variety of spring stock!! The only way to determine the quality is to test it. Some that breaks has a higher carbon content and needs to be heated. Some is just cheap garbage.
Lock Noob they work pretty well! The ones I got are quite thin, so they spin in the jetway a lot, but the TOK part is perfect. Just need to buy some better tok tensioners soon
My local Halfords (UK) was more than happy to let me take a handful of old wipers for nothing. Don’t know if they will all let you but it’s definitely worth asking nicely. Some were to brittle and snapped when trying to bend but only 2 out of the 15 or so I picked up.
The reason they can break is because there are different grades of stainless depending on the amount of chromium content, usually bent cold. heat till buff red electro polish it.
Whenever I watch your videos, I always think I'm watching Frankie1080p's gaming videos... your voices and speaking mannerisms are very similar. Anyway, cool video, thanks for sharing! :)
Measuring tape - just seems awkward considering your cutting pad already has centimeters laid out on it. Like others have said - make your bends before cutting. If you’re buying a new wiper blade, why not get one for your car and then use the old one 🤦♂️
initially I did too, but it's too thin, so it needs to be a little wider, its not so good, yesterday i make some from a tweezers, I cracked and I managed without any other tool to break a lock just by tension and vibration at the same time..first time in my life, I think it took me 20 seconds. Then in the evening with a safety pin and a hairpin I broke a yala. I don't want to film because in my country the police are a bit idiotic.
♻US - North East. The local auto parts store (AutoZone) has a bin right outside the entry/exit doors just for old wiper blades for when ppl replace them in the parking lot. Keep an 👁out.
@@Clr-Clr So Sorry... Might need to get you one.. best little micro tool on the planet. I use mine all the time, and make short work of new picks. They all have gritty edges. I have already used one Buff so much it has a nice special groove in it, just for my picks, to touch and polish up. Only used for that reason only.