ASSA is de facto lock maker used in Finland - like 90+ procent of commercial and public buildings have ASSA locks installed. Residential buildings maybe 80-90 procent.
I'm surprised to see that you don't have a pick-and-gut of a "regular old" ASSA Twin! (Given, they're horrible monsters to pick-mine has been in my Naughty Bin for 6 years)
I'm still at the stage where picking sliders is all witchcraft. Very impressive :-) Just wondering if those sliders could be modded into devious driver pins?
Thanks. As for modding the sliders, I actually received a challenge lock with an ASSA Twin slider (which looks like the upper part of the Desmo sliders) used as a serrated pin. Unfortunately, I don't remember who it was from, but I definitely posted a video of it.
I really want this lock now. It's like a tubar, but way easier to tension and you don't need to make tools for it. I would not be shocked if it was way harder to pick though.
beautiful lock man.great job picking it.thanks for sharing video .learning so much keep them comeing evan if i can't pick.it at least i know what im dealing with.thanks 😎😎😎😎
Wow! what a staggering pic! I'm becoming more and more convinced that the only reason you're a lawyer is so you can defend yourself after you've picked your way into some maximum security government facility....
Thanks... as for picking my way into a maximum security government facility, if so, I need to prepare myself for picking my way OUT of a maximum security government facility as well!
When I send this one back, do you want me to send my Desmo as well so you can use the sliders while picking yours? I will want mine back, but am happy to lend it out to you for a while. Let me know. :-)
Extraordinary picking on a very difficult lock as it seems. Does every slider actually have only 3 possible heights? The sliders all look identical with the exception of where the true gate is and here you have 3 possibilities. Why are #1 and #2 thicker at the lower part - are these one of yours that was added?
Thanks, and good question. At first glance, you would think that there are only three heights because the gates are evenly spaced and each has three gates (2 false, 1 true). But if you look carefully, you will note that where those three gates fall on the upper part of the slider varies slightly. So there are definitely more than three cuts, but I'm not sure how many there are... my guess is 6+. The ones that I added are 4 + 8 (i.e., the back ones) which were 3 + 6 (i.e., the back ones) out of my lock.
Thanks. They are quite uncommon. I've only seen one ever, and it was on the back of a gambling machine that I saw being taken off a casino floor. I then looked at the other machines, and all of them had Medeco Duracam locks.
"Definitely not an easy pick..." *checks time on video* Less than six minutes, and that's with a presentation of the lock first. I've played with a couple of Twins with the pins removed (they very kindly installed a long screw holding the pinstacks in place), and if there are any relations to the amount of feedback, well, hat off to you! PS. I've seen these locks on petrol pumps in here in Sweden. Just in case someone were interested in where these locks (among other places) are used.
Thanks. They are similar to the Twins, but I find the Twins easier to read, but harder to pick. They are easier to read because the spring tension on the sliders lets you feel what is binding easier. They are harder to pick IMO because the spring tension makes it easier for sliders to drop.
+APACHE-LOCKSPORT With 6 sliders... not long. 5-10 minutes for the first open, but remember that I've worked on locks like this before... and I'm also constantly working on ASSA Twins, which have similar sliders (but spring loaded). With 8 sliders, probably 30 minutes for the first open.
Would it be possible to spring load the sliders and then add more groves for the sidebar to catch on to force the lock to be picked multiple times for a full turn?
There’s no such thing as a perfectly secure lock. When purchasing a lock, you can never assume that. your just trying to buy as much time as possible. That holds true whether it’s a combination Master padlock- or a bank vault. That being said, this lock apparently would buy more time than the average Schlage residential type.
I wish you would go back to more of these types of videos, rather than making essentially the same video every time of some garbage lock that anyone can defeat just so the fanboys can fight over who gets to be the first to comment "one of these days he will open the lock without even touching it" or whatever this time. Let's see you use the tools you sell to defeat a properly impressive lock.
You could never pick this lock in a public place. And many of the other locks, you pick in a way that can't be manipulated in their native environment.
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