5 Minute Crafts HAVE to Stop! - Lock Picking Edition 

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Hi Lock Noob, it reminds me of something I saw over 60 years ago ( I've never tried it, but it did work ... I think! ) A friend of my boss, at the time, said he could open a padlock with candle wax. We arranged a time, the padlock was produced, and checked by my boss to see that everything was above board. He heated the wax to liquid, poured it into the keyway, inserted the blank, and let it set. He then removed and heated the key blank with a flame and inserted it into the lock. He removed it a couple of times, using the tip of the blank to turn the plug. All of a sudden the plug turned and the padlock opened. The reason ... if you can believe it - the hot blank heated the key pins to the point the wax holding them allowed them to drop, leaving the driver pins stuck above the shearline. Turning the plug with the tip of the key opened the padlock. True story.

Wow. And i thought their cooking hacks were bad. They've successfully unlocked more of my disrespect than i had before. Lol Take care everyone.

I want to comment on the acid part of the video: from what it looks like it might be hyaluronic acid and it's used as a cosmetic product to make your skin smoother and such. I don't use it myself but my gf does and she has a bottle exactly like that one, the liquid has the same colour and even the dropper looks the same. It is technically acid but if you can put it on your skin don't expect it to melt a lock lol.

I have spent way too many hours watching their content, and laughing at most of it. This does nothing to promote good practice for the lock sport community, and as you said, in some instances may be dangerous. But they will continue to churn out fake videos, and rake in the cash at the end of the month. Your comment on why they wanted to get through the door had me in stitches :)

The uncut version of the lock picking video has a unicorn in it ,but that was left out as they believed it seem unbelievable.

That made me think of all these "shorts" that keep popping up. In them the actor inserts some random pick and the lock instantly pops open and begins cooking breakfast. Okay, I made up the breakfast part

Desperate to use the toilet and it was too late 😂😂😂. The most unexpected lock Noob comment ever

so cool to find out, that you can still use a key if half the bow is missing.

So glad you did this. I saw this video on instagram and was laughing at how bad some of the methods were (been a locksmith for 15 years). Thank you

I think they have just helped you look so superior so don't feel disheartened after all people that try to copy them will soon realise that they are being mugged off...

Lol, hilariously bad, thanks for clearing it all up. Maybe they had locks with no pins or plastic cores so they could melt... or plastic pins 😜

If there ever was a lock you could pick with two lock picks it'd be that cheap plastic one lol

Is... is their acid literally lemon juice? It's so rare to find truly So-Bad-It's-Good content. Godspeed, 5 Minute Crafts.

The acid "Trick" actually works. All you need is the right acid. Depending on the Lock the Pins or springs will dissolve and the lock can be opend with a screwdriver. It's NOT healthy so don't try this.

Oh goodness i just cannot. If that expanding foam worked we would not have used breaching charges and lead breaching loads while i was on Active Duty.

😆 all of a sudden I hear "Let's drop some acid" and look up from picking to see lock noob... 😁😂

i find it so hard to believe that someone would think that these would work. but there again, some people are so gullible. you just have to laugh.

LMFAO! That's some of the best crap I've ever seen LOL. Nice one Ash and thanks for sharing mate.

🤣thanks for the laughters. my sides now hurt

There are also a lot of "gardening hacks" videos similar to this. One gardening RU-vidr I watch, sometimes goes through these, and about 98% are just crap!

love the myth busting 😁👍

Trick to opening padlock without key! *Red circle and arrow pointing at the shackle drain hole and a thumbtack in frame*

I'm surprised there were no cocktail sticks or glue stick guns involved as is the norm for 5 Minutes Crafts Ash haha 🤣

All the 5-minute channels are fake.

The ppl commenting on the video that it's disturbing don't even realize what's actually disturbing about it 🤦‍♂️

I feel the same way about all the garbage escape handcuff videos. I am jealous of their camera and lighting systems though...

It would seem the greatest achievement for that content creator, was getting a partially filled water bottle to land straight up. 🤡💩

Oh boy, now this is the way I love to start out my morning, hysterical laughing, and thank you for that! I avoid social media like the plague, Reddit is about all I go on and that's for /r/lockpicking. Haven't seen those video's before but man your reactions had me dying LockNoob, thank you so much and please please please do more, they are priceless!

You would need some thermite for that first one to have a chance of working

Thanks for this, my grandad saw that video and is convinced matches will work, cant wait to show him

I saw a video last year that put forth the theory that a lot of these 5 minute craft style videos a, shall we say, of a far more adult nature, then they first appear. It's about how they hold and handle objects that could be stand ins for body parts.

Dangt LockNoob...in the first lock you have to put a match into the keyway and light that....duh.....

I have never seen or heard of them, I must live in a box on a remote island. The whole concept of what they are doing is totally ridiculous. like you say the worst of this is people might actually try this on other peoples locks and damage them, maybe even cause a fire. I just read Brian Hignett's comment about wax opening a lock. I can't see it working at all, in fact you could use that cheap padlock you tried to set on fire in this video.

I don't know about you, but I think it would be hilarious to see McNally tear 5 Minute Crafts's original video apart and roast the hell out of them LOL

Some people criticize genuine locksport videos on the theory that they teach thieves how to do their craft. (They don't, but that's a different story.) Maybe the 5 minute crafts videos will teach thieves a lot of rot and prevent a break in or two? :-)

...oh, its Instagram. Yeah, NOT clicking on that link.

I absolutely HATE 5 Minute Craps!

All that just to realize you could have just taken out the hinge pins.

To be honest, if I get a service call to some morons place that tried some stupid “hack” on their locks, and I have to spend more time and replace hardware instead of a quick pick open…… that’s just more money in my pocket. I don’t feel bad when people have to pay the “idiot tax” when they mess their crap up

Glad you are challenging some of the phony videos on locks. Thanks……

Love your video, so funny.

I'm more surprised he has acid sitting around than these being fake

Haven't seen these jokers; while making gag vids may be entertaining, locksport already has a negative rep (in the U. S. at least) so these just make people assume the worst! .. and Master products are so inferior and plentiful, why waste the acid?! 🤣🤣 Thank you for your Debunking, N00b!

It's a combination of clickbaitery, conspiracy and gullibility that seems to draw people in. I can picture it now. "Lock secrets THEY don't want you to know". Presumably that sort of title means the locks would prefer you to stay away. If I were about to be bathed in hydrochloric acid and burned with matches then I'd probably also prefer it to not happen. But then, that's just what THEY want you to think. Or is it?

I'm sorry you had to do this

Great video as always!

Great entertaining video ash mate and yeah all about the content farming for them😎😊🇬🇧👊👍

Prefer when pick locks ,only watch you ,lock picking laywer,and best Bosnian bill now retired .I lock pick also so prefer watch propper picking .😮

They are just click baited people with catchy thumbnails. Nothing to learn about them unfortunately

Bwahahaha! Great video!

lol im crying this is so funny

Do you think the acid would have worked in one of those weird plastic core locks?

5 Minute Crafts better have some top notch legal aid on tap. If children watch that vid and try to emulate those 'tricks' there's going to be injury and, hopefully, lawsuits. You're doing a service here Ash, pointing out that stupid, destructive, hacks like the ones shown by 5 Minute Crafts don't work and aren't lockpicking. Of course they'll still get the views sadly so... glass half full of Hydrochloric Acid?

All BS MY FRIEND..😎

7:00 dont some of thoes cores come in zink ?

Safety matches are the ones which ignite only when struck on a specially prepared surface (e.g. the side of a matchbox). The red explodey ones are unsafety matches.

What about plastic core disc locks?

Wait a minute...no hot glue or soldering irons? This can't be a real 5 minute Crafts video. Edit: random question about gunk in a lock, is it best to keep the graphite powder in locks you use for picking? Or should I let it all wear away and not replace it?

(rolls eyes) Does anybody actually watch "Five Minute Fakes"? or Blossom or Fabulosa (the fake video channel, not the Hispanic detergent 😎) I mean, we all know they are 100% fake...

There is a liquid that does actually eat through locks: Gallium. That said, there probably is an acid-based formula for producing a reaction with brass, but it would likely involve a catalytic reaction between Two acid bases. Maybe the chemists out there can oblige. Maybe with the two picks 'pick' they were doing they were using one of the picks as a turning tool. I know that I do actually use just ONE pick from the goso set to pick cheap wafer locks by jiggling it up and down whilst twisting it at the same time. Finally, the idea of using expanding foam to force a door catch out of its keeper in the door frame could work, but it would be much easier to use the inflatable rubber mats designed for use when leveling for fitting doors. I see this type of video as deliberate misinformation aimed at people who are stupid enough to think they can go out and attack any in-use lock they choose. As is the case with many 'masked magician' methods, the actual method mostly used is much simpler than the one demonstrated.

😅 really not believable but they get a lot of views. Like your video much better 😅🐈‍⬛🐾🐈🐾🇬🇧🍻

Obviously what they did worked! Otherwise, the door would not open at the end. As a proof, the hot James Bond girl was walking inside.

😁 👍

5 minute craps:- fake uninformed vids for the constipated

5 minute crafts are good you are bad 😡😡😠😠