It probably cost a small fortune when it was new. Master Lock knows that a lock only needs to be good enough, then sell plenty of those to those who will swallow the snake oil.
@@noname-wo9yy I never said all locks are rubbish... but some just ain't evolving to come up with something better... because that takes time and money.
@@arekhabentangan9778 because companies want to sell what will make them the most profit. Why mass produce a good lock people can still largely afford when you can mass produce a cheap lock, charge just as much, and the vast majority of people will still buy it based on the packaging telling them it's Pickproof McUltratough?
LOL... The first actual usable power drill came out in the US in 1914 by Black & Decker. Most folks due to cost were still using hand crank drills into the 60’s and 70’s. Drills were cordless before they were cordless.
Definitely very cool. Are you familiar with the DUO or the Alpha 800? Both really nice wafer locks. I have a couple videos on the DUO, a triple bitting wafer lock with about double the number of wafers as this one.
Pretty damn amazing for a company that wasn't even specialized in making locks. I'm 100% going to do some research on the inventor of that lock. The machining alone is absolutely beautiful
+Lock Noob I have one made by Corbin (Cabinet Locks div.), they don't seem very rare. CCL Security (the old Corbin Cabinet Locks) is still making tham with the exact same mechanism, but a different lock body. I think that it's are called the Sesamee 66.
Wow ! I've always wanted to see one of these on video instead of line drawing and mech explosions. I really enjoy seen lock obscura like this. Thanks LPL!
Wow for a 90 year old lock that was impressively formidable some modern companies could learn a few things from that lock the build quality alone makes it worth the money
I feel like locks like this are the reasons for the whole channel. This lock is so old and so cool and so much better than most of the locks of the last 100 years
The majority of good we buy today are waaay better than the ones produced 100 years ago. But some are not. This lock definitely looks like one of those exceptions!
I really like this lock. I don't think an amateur could pick it. By today's standards, it is overly complicated. But the designer has done a better job than most of today's lock designers even attempt. Thanks for sharing.
When I first saw it I thought it was a warded lock... very impressed to see anti drilling pins on a lock that old with unusual wafers...I found an old waterbury metal detecting that had wafers... very nice piece you have....
At the time, you didn't have to worry about drilling. It looks like copper construction, so I'm going to assume it is, and therefore was weak to one thing. Sawing. So I believe those are not anti-drill pieces, but anti-saw pieces.
I love seeing the different designs, especially the older ones. You can see how much more complicated,and less cost effective some of them proved to be in the long run, although mechanically extremely interesting.
I figured I would do a video here and there on locks I haven't seen picked on video, doesn't mean there not out there. I had to do a video on the community lock and I ended up doing a second on a Zi ikon padlock, nothing special just a nice looking lock.
A. Amazing tech for the 30's. I wonder why we don't see split wafers anymore? B. How amazing is he to not only know how to pick everything but assembly and dis-assembly. I'm in awe.
Hi Harry, What a great little padlock! Expensive to produce even back in those days I would think. Clever angled topped wafers, and key security as well. I assume only Dudley could cut those keys back then. Well picked and explained. Regards, Brian.
That's the first time I've seen a wafer lock not be a massive disappointment on this channel. In fact, it actually seems to ne way better that half of the locks on the present market
This is crazy impressive, I've just gotten my first kit and have had it for about 4 days. Just now getting down single pin picking basic standard pins on really basic locks, I have so much more respect. You make this look easy, thank you for the inspiration... I can see myself getting better everyday and hope to be half the picker you are one day.
Wow...that thing had more "guts" to it than the high security locks that we used on our munitions storage bunkers when I was in the military...Definitely a work of art.
Lock from 30's can't believe they were that advance. THAT IS THE COOLEST LOCK I HAVE SEEN YOUR ARE THE GRAND MASTER PICKER IN MY EYES LOL LOL .CAN'T HARDLY BELIEVE A BLUE PRINT WAS STILL AVAILABLE AMAZING. THANKS FOR SHOWING ME THIS GREAT VIDEO. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟😎
I had no idea how many different lock brands and companies there were until I took up lock sport. It’s amazing how much a decent picker has to know to not have to start from scratch with every single lock... I’m not a decent picker 😞
Very nice lock LPL! I love the design of it. Thanks for the info on picking it. I have never tried to pick something like that. Nice old lock for the collection.
Very interesting video thanks for sharing it, the lock itself looks more secure than many of todays locks, I would rather have something like that on my toolbox over an Abus rock or similar, well picked again, you always make it look easy.
Am I the only one that doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. I just watched the videos and I'm in awe of whatever he's doing and talking about. I do know one thing for sure there is nothing that is pick proof. It can have the wackiest keys you've ever seen and it seems like it doesn't stand a chance.
WOW! From the time the tension rod went in until shackle release was about 2 minutes and 42 seconds. That is a *long* pick for you so that lock must be brilliant. Shame there aren't locks this hard to pick today. If there were, they would be best sellers I would think.
I have to wonder how long it would take a locksmith of reasonable skill to pick a lock like this without having the luxury of the key and disassembly up front. I suppose the same could be said of a number of novel locks even on the market today.
Wow, am I the first commenter? Regardless, I wish more lock manufacturers were making locks like this today, with today's materials and other features. Nice job, LPL!
Thanks for the information. I'm glad someone has pursued that technology. It might not be much fun for you to do, but I'd be interested in seeing one or more videos on locks that have been extraordinarily difficult to pick and why they were troublesome for you.
Wow, very interesting lock. Are you sure it's 1930's? I had no idea they had the technology for something so intricate. The holes on the Bible that the wafers lock in to would have been punched out as a flat plate on a manual bench press with a bespoke tool, and then the plate would have been shaped in to a tube between rollers. Incredible amount of work must have been involved to make this lock. it's amazing to think it was made in mass production just 10 years after world war 1. What's happened to all that skill and expertise? It saddens me. Thankyou for a great piece of history. Interesting that the lock body profile is the same shape/geometry as the HSBC logo!
extrusion as a process had been used for around a century before brass extrusion was made feasible in the 1890s. so it could very well have been an extruded part in the 1930s, with holes punched or cut around a central rod.
Awesome lock - very cool that it comes apart so nicely. A great mechanism - I wonder why there are no modern locks using it. And not to forget your skilled picking on it. By the way, how did you know which wafer you had to pick on each side?
Thanks. I knew which wafers to pick from looking at the patent drawings and from taking the lock apart and exploring. "I wonder why there are no modern locks using it." -- The EVVA DUAL is pretty close. Essentially the same thing, but with 12 wafers/sliders and with sidebars that fit into them.
+LPL Actually the four "anti-drill" pins on the side are "anti-saw", so you can't saw through the lock body, something the is not taken into account nowadays.
+eclipsedave not sure why they serrated the bow. You sometimes see this on older keys to distinguish it from other models. But I don't know enough about old Dudley locks to say whether that's the case.
Hmm very similar idea to the Honda High Security split tumblers. That padlock was really ahead of it time, I have never seen such a thing. Crazy how you had to pick it twice as well.
wow, an actually competent wafer lock! practically unheard of. i can see why this probably wouldnt be made today..lots of cost to manufacture with all those parts including the key needing special cuts. still, im sure the part count could be slimmed down and make it viable.
Pretty awesome how a lock from 30's is better than so many locks today. In some ways this is kind of sad, but it really does show that they don't make so many things like they used to. I guess lock technology hasn't progressed to the point that a good high security lock can be easily and inexpensively made.
When other RU-vidrs have 10 minute videos it's about monetization. When LPL has a 10 minute video it's because he has a unique and god-level difficulty lock that no mortal would ever attempt to pick.
It's not that bad. I played with the lock (disassembled and picked) for about 2 hours before shooting this video. As for shimming, it is technically possible, but the tolerances were good enough that my shims would not fit in the gap.
@@VineFynn You are still not answering the real reason why LPL does it. You're armchairng an answer, which I guess is better than nothing in a RU-vid comment field.
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