You could easily bring a large hole punch and a hammer in a very small gym bag. Pull them out in the locker room when no ones there, hit it in one tap and go
these locks were used in high schools for this very reason if the janitor needed to break a lock off a locker they could easily do it without damaging the locker it self seen it many times when I was in school those crappy locks sometimes malfunction and don't open when the code is entered in.
@@Tydorstus in some styles of lockers you wouldn't be able to get a pair of cutters in on the shackle, but he's not wrong. In fact, the lockers in my high-school had masterlocks very similar to these build into the locker itself but they all had a keyway in the center of the dial that was masterkeyed
@@zachh3461 I do like how you misspelled "grammar" in that sentence, as well as messing up the capitalization and using the wrong "your" (if that was intentional) :p
That’s the first thing I really paid attention too. Also that he said he was in military school 30 something years ago. He sounds younger then he is I guess.
These were issued and made mandatory by my Australian highschool for our lockers, which were of the dual upper/lower type. People could easily stomp on the locks on the lower lockers with the edge of their shoes to open them. Administration didn't care, they liked them because they all had master key access. The lesson learnt was the evils of tyranny.
Yeah, casually dropping that he went to military school and was regularly carrying an m14 around enough that it was the preferred way to open locks So he's a master lock picker, and probably a very good marksman. This man is mildly terrifying
If the door is made of wood, it's probably less like breaking the lock and more like just punching it out of the door. If force isn't the answer, you're just not using enough.
I went to a naval boarding school, worst threat my parents ever made. We would hit them real good with the heel of our dress shoes, good old bates. They would pop open, no damage, still fully functional... 9/11 happened during my senior year
We used to just give em a good wack with our football helmets highschool. Another option (assuming the locker row was knee height) was to simply stomp your heel across the top of the lock.
@@juan_becerra In middle school we'd just use our bare hands. Yank it down the right way and they'd pop open. Of course these were locks that had been reused for years, so who knows how many times they'd been kicked/hit/looked at reproachfully.
I think the hammer resistance is quite respectable, and the approach leaves clear traces of a non-authorized access. I would consider this sufficient for most locker room applications.
The fact that you might need to approach with something as conspicuous as a crowbar to hit it hard enough to open should count as a win for MasterLock. At least you can't hit it with your boot or shim it quietly with a strip of an orange juice container.
@@serendipityshopnycI hate to tell you, but there were comments from people on this video who confirmed first hand that yes, they can be opened with excessive force via a kick with a boot.
Well I would give it a pass for lockers considering all lockers Ive seen use a ressessed box in the locker door where the lock loops around the bar so it would be quite difficult to use brute force unless you used a wrench smaller tool to pry it apart.
I don't think the LPL forgot anything. I don't think they send a key with a combo lock, unless you are an organization, like a school. Besides, it was probably easier for him to pick the lock than find a key if they included one. He is the LPL after all.
Leslie Franklin Why do people insist on giving out their dumb ass opinion when they can’t even pay attention to 5 minutes of a video to get the real information. Infuriating
@@MrEvanNoyes why do people insist on giving out their dumbass opinion when the issue is already resolved and there's no reason to complain. Infuriating.
@@MrEvanNoyes Im pretty sure the guy who 'infuriated' you was referring to the 'forgetting' as being an act for comedy purposes, rather than an actual admission of forgetting how combination locks work.
LockPickingLawyer -- Very true. However, if someone walks into a gym or school with a crowbar and hammer and starts whacking away on lockers, I hope some heads get raised in suspicion. Of course shimming the shackle would be a lot more discrete and not take much longer. In the unfortunate event, most places have cameras as a last resort, be it school or gym; backyard shed, not usually the case.
Still, if you pay US$4 to protect anything, you shouldn't be too surprised when the lock falls apart on it's own let alone when hit with a hammer. Have you tried yelling at one?
Master Lock Customer Service: "I'm sorry. It looks like we forgot to send you the small key to open the lock from the back." LPL: "Don't sweat it. I've got 7 seconds."
We used to use a towel fed through the shackle in high school (20 years ago). A quick yank and they came open, with no damage and the ability to relock them to cover your tracks.
'91 Beat Navy! When I first saw the Master lock, I was reminded how we innocent cadets got trained by a SSG in Airborne School how easy it was to bust them open with an E-tool and tent stake. When you mentioned lock boxes and M-14's, I made a USMA assumption. Great videos, by the way.
This is pretty overkill - back in highschool, we had those locks on our lockers. Some of the lockers were at shin-level, and people figured out pretty quickly that a quick stomp on the dial knob would pop these locks right open.
It took about a week to figure out I could open my locker faster and more reliably by jiggling the handle just right than by actually dialing the combo.
"give me a minute" i like how he thinks we are with him and have to wait while he walks inside to look at locks when in actual fact he just edits that out
When I was in high school we were given American brand combination locks for our school and gym lockers. One day when I was a junior all of a sudden we had to replace the locks, turn in the American locks and get a Master lock to replace it. I didn't know why until most of a year later, when another student told me. Seems there had been a rash of locker break-ins, and as part of a plea deal the perp demonstrated to the administration how they were doing it. They just hit the American locks with a shoe heel and they popped open. That was a long time ago, we were probably given the same "M14" Master locks you had.
In the Finnish military we opened ancient Abloy padlocks on personal lockers with a sharp blow from a field shovel. I guess some things are the same no matter where you're from.
Yeah, like pants. No matter where you go, they always have that one big hole for your waist and the two little long ones for your legs. Literally every country on the planet would you believe it?
We must have had some of the old ones at my schools. Some of my friends would just go up and put our finger through the loop for some grip and give them a good pull and they opened.
I remember (20 years ago) as long as you didn't 'scramble' the numbers you could just easily re-open them again with a normal pull. So of course most of us left them that way.
Nah, he rigged the kwikset door locks on his house to brick if someone picks them. He has a video to show us how to do it, quick and cheap kwikset lock upgrades.
I remember back when I was in school we used master locks for our lockers and if you left the dial where it was after you opened and closed it you could just pull it open again
I'm just wondering does LpL carry around a set of keys to get into his House/car or just a set of picks. Puts key in front door of home"not this doesn't feel right"pulls out pick Miss LpL "good dam it George just open the dam door we have geogeous and the Ben and Jerry's is melting"
In my middle school (6,7, and 8th grade) students would turn the lock to get it in a better position, and then give it a good kick, and it would open. Most of the time it was just one kick. The students had an easier time getting the lock off than the staff that would occasionally have to cut the locks off if someone forgot the combination.
You're supposed to do a full turn before going to the 2nd number. I think he did it right. But I've also bought many of these locks that the combos didnt work right out if the box. Master lock has terrible quality control.
Stardust 3DS I think he means that when LPL went for the third number, he was supposed to go a full turn between the second and third numbers. Not sure if putting the combination in would have worked in any case though; seeing the wheel turn when he was trying to close it puts me under the impression that his destructive entry most likely scrambled the combination.
@@QuiescentPilot I use these for school and they are the same kind, i think and you have to skip the second number so you are rotating more than 360 degrees to get to the 2nd number.
My school use those for our gym, while they have a key hole, many have found the heal of a shoe can open one if swung with a good deal of force. Lost twenty buck from that. Even my 2 dollar bill. Bastards.
When I was in middle school I had my wallet stolen that had over 200 bucks in cash stolen, plus gift cards, and it was my grandfather's old swiss army wallet. It was my prized possession. I knew exactly who did it even right after it happened and knew how to prove it. But the Dean wouldn't do anything about it. Like 7 years later I was talking to my best friend about it and she asked who did it and where. Apparently that same guy took my best friend out to dinner and said that he had "recently gotten a lot of money" and wouldn't show her the wallet. I don't even care about the money, I just want that wallet. I will get it back somehow
A test I would like to see on the same new Master Lock is: try freezing the lock internals first with canned air propellant (with inverted can, so the very cold isobutane comes out). Note that isobutane is heaver than air so you can flow it from above and it will sink into the necessary areas.
Greetings from Myrtle Beach! I went to Wofford in order to become a United Methodist pastor, but I spent two summers at the Citadel camp as a young teen, then went on the 1972 European tour with Colonel James Woods... a great man. I even attended a July 4 ice cream party in General Clark's back yard, hosted by the man himself. I have plenty of friends who went to El Cid, including quite a few attorneys. Awesome school and forever in my heart.
If you take a smaller hammer and tap the sides of the locks while pulling on a piece of rope run through the shackle to pull the body of the lock they will open and you can reuse the lock. The fact is most master locks and many others like them can be opened the same way. You don't have to tap very hard and just pull with moderate force on the rope while tapping.
I remember having my high school issuing us all these exact locks at the beginning of the year for our lockers and I took 1 look at it and went to the hardware store
When I was in high school, there was a popular brand of combo lock called Slaymaker and used by many on their lockers. I discovered that if you gave the bottom of a Slaymaker a good blow with a sneaker, it would pop open. Masterlocks were resistant to that attack.
@D B More than half. Stop trying to act like it isn't. It's past the number where signs of age start to kick in. You sound like you're 45 or something.
@@iiGingiey the thing to remember is that almost no thieves bother picking the lock. They usually go for either a bypass or a destructive attack. The problem is the locks that can be raked or zipped open, both actions look like someone who has the keys to the lock.
In the 80’s, at our junior HS, we were picking these. Folks from Masterlock visited us to show how we we’re picking them. They subsequently improved them but still pickable...
"This is the LockPicking Lawyer, and today, we're just going to beat a couple of locks into submission and then roast Master Lock for it." I mean, you could attach one end of a chain to the lock and the other end to the back of your car and just rip it apart with the force of the engine. Is that a terrible lock? Or is that overkill on the part of the intruder? LPL: "The combination no longer works, but we have this key bypass here. Let's see if that still works." Me: Oh good. That should be quick. He just bought the locks, so he has the keys handy to make this test effortless, right? LPL: *pulls out picks* Me: *dies laughing*
We used to open them with a good downward kick with our combat boots in the Army, where the low end combo locks were very common on lockers. After you have kicked a few open, it becomes very easy to do. I figured they were designed that way on purpose
Kids used to open combination locks on school lockers by hitting the dial with the bottom of a book or notebook would generally open them up (especially the cheapies).
@@yourmomlmao9638 I'm just guessing that in any situation where a school/company is buying multiple/dozens of combination locks, they would want/demand a few master keys.
this kind of opening is quite common for locker looks. i am a bit forgetful some times and in my time in the army i did forget maybe around 3-4 times my key for my locker. there is the multi purpose shovel, that works well as a look picking tool. even better if you have 2...works with every normal lock so far.
If I recall correctly, you need to turn right once more after the third number. The lock will feel pressure and can be opened. I used these for years in high school; they were such a pain to put in the combination correctly. My bet is that the combination did work, but LPL just tried on some quirks of the design.
I like these combination Master locks. Their good for their intended purpose like a school locker where its highly unusually to find someone walking around with a crow bar and sledge hammer attacking the lock. It's kinda like hating a suit case lock because you can hammer it open. I bought a combination Master lock 2001D model and it seems to be a higher end version of the locks in this video.
Went to school in the 1950's, identical looking locker locks. You could just spin them with a little tension and find the way. Back then, I recall that only half of the positions were used, ie 20 of 40 real positions.
When you said without picking and without manipulation I just imagine the lock sitting in a chair in an interrogation room with two guys sweating with their sleeves rolled up and a back table filled with torture devices shouting “we can do this all day”
I told my son that locks are not really to keep someone out, but to show forced entry. This is why I am glad Masterlock improved this lock, so it shows forced entry.
Had one of these back in high school, I remember being late for class so I popped it just like that with my m14 and it opened right up. Felt like a miracle at the time.
When I was a kid, some of us did have fun opening some random Master Lock blind, behind their back. Usually, in less than a minute. Often, faster than the owner who know the combination.
The ones we had in school were still shimable, also the master key on the back was super easy to pick, apparently easy to decode too but I never went to the effort, but a hammer or rifle butt was not needed
+LockPickingLawyer Something you may or may not find interesting... I was given a Master No15 because the key wasnt opening it reliably. It appears the key had been in it and received a blow that warped it along the longitudinal axis. It seemed difficult to pick, for a standard pinned Master and would key open in both directions, but would only pick CCW. Fooling around, I picked and attempted to spin the core with a rubber band. The spin failed and stopped pretty hard. Now it will only pick CW and with excessive tension and extra heavy pick pressure, but the key still works just as well. Im thinking the pins are partially sheared from the impact to the key and the failed core flip - somewhat like serrated pins. At any rate, its now a considerably more challenging pick. So I guess Im saying I fixed a Master Lock. *** I dont know how good of a picker I am, because I have a limited array of practice locks. I do have a passion for physical security though and can break, or bypass anything!
I understand why Master would put a secondary opening mechanism (the keyway on the back) on/in a combination lock despite being junk quality, It is disappointing to see it smashed and picked so easily. Keep breaking them! Maybe they'll make a better product one day LOL. The way the metal folded/deformed on the first lock says it all. Thanks for uploading!
Not only that but I always figured that having the lock as the easiest failure mode means that thieves will never damage the more expensive/difficult to replace lockers.
Okay, I realize I’m seeing this 4 years later, but the comment of whacking these with an M14 sounds EXACTLY like the experiences of Citadel cadets. Go dawgs!
Well that's an improvement! Back in Highschool it was pretty common to have people "pop" them open w/the actual rod in a locker. It would leave them compromised and you couldn't tell unless you gave it a yank.
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