@@megadeathx Some fire codes restrict it to having a maximum of only two motions necessary to unlock any egress door latches from the inside and they cannot be more than 48 inches above the floor, nor less than 34 inches. E.g., NFPA 101 (2015): 7.2.1.5.10. So, if your door has a single lock mechanism that releases dead bolts on the top, bottom and sides with one or even two separate and sequential motions, then you're good to go. Having any additional and separate bolts at the top or bottom would not meet such fire code. Local codes and exceptions for "existing" latches may vary widely.
I’ve re-keyed locks before and have accidentally dumped the driver pins out. I can assure you, normal people take a LOOOT longer putting those back in than be does. His precision is just mind blowing
Never done it, but had the exact same thought while watching this. Took me a while to understand what he was doing and then it occurred to me there's no way it's that easy.
I don't think they'd ever be able to brake into his house, tbh I'm not even sure what that means, but if they wanted to break into his house, all they would need to do is break a window.
@@Eingefallen So do burglars but thats not the point. Most professional thieves that are going to break into your house are going to case it first in order to determine the best point and method of entry, and more importantly, the best time to break in, usually opting to choose a time where no one is home. In that case, it won't really matter how many guns he has. Plus, I think you're missing the point of what I said, I was commenting on the fact that the person who wrote the original comment evidently doesn't know the difference between the words brake and break. It was supposed to be a joke
"Officer, I am locked out of my home because a thief picked all my doors. Well, I made them pick resistant. No, when someone tries it locks the door forever."
I like how he says he doesn’t want his locks to be picked by novices, there for implying he wants a challenger. An expert if you would. Someone to take him 1v1 in a legendary challenge of the gods
lol someone finally breaks into his house, finding several rooms and harder locks until you can't get any further. Then behind you the door shuts you just hear 'alright pin in room 27 has been set...this is LPL and today I'm showing you how to make a human lock....." *footsteps*
Thief: "I did it! I finally did it! After years of trying I finally cracked it and I'm in! Now I can get hold of all these precious locks..." LPL: "This is the Lock Picking Lawyer and today I'm going to be beating this intruders ass with the biggest padlock in my collection."
"This is the lock picking lawyer and today I'm going to see if this burglar is as durable as the Squire SS100CS, featured in videos 927 and 944. Following similar testing procedures, Starting with the 50 Cal. Lockpick."
@@onechippyboi unless the guy got off a silent shot first because he turned off the power and crept into his room while he slept... The only real safety that people have is the public trust. Which if destroyed or tarnished creates havok and malice.
This is a much better solution than paying 2000 dollars for a lock. Because a 2000 dollar lock is a huge red flag that you have something worth more than 2000 dollars worth stealing.
@TiggerLiveToo makes you stand out (if a would be thief knows a bit about locks). It's the same with camera's. If you have two otherwise similar houses, one has camera's all around it, which one do you think a thief/burglar would rather get it's contents?
@@Abby_Liu No, that's just what top-of-the-line hardware locks cost. Believe me, most people don't even have that. They buy a $30 Kwikset or Schlage, and sometimes they don't even lock their damn doors. I have those locks (the house came with), + Medeco locks, fortified doors and hinges, an alarm, and a gun. I have glass-break sensors, window stops, and and cameras. I also live in a safe neighborhood, so it's like Fort Knox here. Anyone's security can be beaten, but you'd have to really, really want to get into that house. Crooks will just see my cameras and Medeco locks and move on.
Plot twist: LPL doesn't have a front door, instead he has a labyrinth for a garden and you must surpass half a dozen of traps in order to get to a door that was sealed from the inside.
I once saw a TV show where the reporter kept saying he would interview a thieve that would show live and on the reporter's own car, how to get in, in less than a couple of seconds, using nothing more than a component anyone could purchase at autoparts stores. At every segment of the show, before and after commercial breaks, he'd keep saying that the interview was "coming up", etc, etc. When it was finally time to show how the gentleman would get into his car, the reporter cued up the drama, "now he's going to reveal his trick", etc, and the guy takes a spark plug out of his pocket. The reporter asks, "...But that... that's a spark plug, no?" The spark plug is smashed into the window breaking it into a million pieces. The guy unlocks the door from the inside and while opening it, he answers, "yes it is".
I remember older cards where the inside button to lock/unlock the door has this nice little head that you could grab with a wire hook and simply pull up through the rubber isolation between door and frame.
@@HappyBeezerStudios I used to have a 96' Jeep Cherokee with wind wings and could use hanger wire through the rubber insulation on the wing to loop around the door handle and pull it open if I ever locked my keys in the car.
@@toriless Yes they are tempered. They're not laminated like the front window, but are indeed tempered. Otherwise when broken, they'd be extremely dangerous, with large knife-like pieces ready to go deep into flesh.
When I start teaching computer security, a student will ask me if there is such a thing as a totally secure computing device. The channel author's comment about wood frame doors and ground level windows reminded me of the answer I give students.: "If you have a house with pick proof locks, have steel doors, and windows with bars and bullett proof glass.... all I need is a wooden wall and a chainsaw". If a criminal wants to get in they will. What you need to do is make the intrusion not worth their effort and risk.
@@toddmiller5322 I have left my cars looking very lived in for years, and they have not been bothered, before that, I had trouble with my car having things stolen out of it. Keep the good stuff hidden, like leaving your gym shoes on top of your watch. People look for things that catch their eye, if all they see doesn't amount to much, it's probably not worth their time. But the new Nikes and the fancy department store bags grab attention.
They just move on to the next house. Burglers are lazy and usually not that bright, and when confronted with a difficult place to rob, they just go elsewhere. Besides, most houses aren't worth robbing, so unless you are keeping cash/jewelry/precious metals/drugs loose in your house, nobody's going to want to go through the trouble to break in.
Note that Kwikset locks are no longer made with holes for Construction Keying. I tried doing this with an older Schlage lock. It didn't work because the construction holes are 45 degrees away from the main holes, and by the time the key has rotated 45', the Entrance Lock is already unlocked. I also tried with Defiant locks, and found they do not have Construction holes, and so cannot be modified in this way.
@@walden6272 all the windows are impact resistant security mesh, and the doors are kick resistant. Have to get a concrete saw to cut through the wall to get in the house.
LPL: Hello police I'd like to report an attempted burglary. Officer: sure talk me through what happened LPL: Well I came home and found my key hole tilted 45 degrees. Officer:.....
Even after explaining the locks have been modified to be tamper-evident, they probably still won't care because they don't show obvious signs of damage. They want to get convictions and that's it. So if you got a license plate and a witness then they're all ears.
I think police officer would belíve him. I mean he just need to show this video. Also his voice is very calm and convincing. If I would try to tell the same to the police they would scrathing thier head.
@Peter Evans You call the police so your neighboors dont call the police on you while you are breaking your own window, but I guess they can say the same to the new callers.
Imagine trying to break into a house, and from a distance you hear a rapidly-approaching voice saying “This is the LockPickingLawyer, and today we will be showing a thief how to properly break into my house.”
i saw a post about a guy who came home to a few guys who had broken into his apartment with absolutely NOTHING in it. they turned to him and went "man, you live like this? hold on a minute we'll be right back" and then they came back an hour later with furniture for him
People thought it was odd that, as a 4 year old, I began a big fascination with locks and keys. Nearly 50 years later I am still just as interested. Some of the things LPL comes up with are things I am seeing for the first time!
Did you ever hear the tragedy of the lock picking lawyer? I thought not. It’s not a story the locksmiths would tell you. It’s a thief legend. The lock picking lawyer was an ethical lock picker, so powerful and so wise he could open any lock and safe… He had such a knowledge of lockpicking that he could even open safes with orange juice bottles. Lockpicking is key to many opportunities some consider to be unethical. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was finding a lock he couldn't pick, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he applied everything he knew, then created his own lock that even he couldn't pick. Ironic. He could pick everyone else's lock, but not his own.
PSA: I just got my wafers and t-pins in the mail today and disassembled one of my locks to implement this modification, and discovered that this does NOT work for Defiant's KW-1 locks. The only holes in the lock core are the pin chambers themselves.
@@johnrehwinkel7241 As a guess, a home in a subdivision/development built by one builder {like Pulte or Toll Brothers} probably would have these, as they would be building multiple houses at once, and having construction keying in a situation is to be expected.
A carful scribed line a proper size Drill bit and you can have a line of holes in the cylinder wall too. Make sure that you don’t drill to deep. Use a Drill Stop or Electrical tape, more layers around the bit than half the hole diameter. Center punch before drilling. Secure the cylinder in a vice take your time. You only need about 1/8” of Depth. Good luck
Yes, this is possibly the first time I have seen him fail to open a lock. Perhaps in this example he picked it in a "standard" manner, as anyone might do if they did not know about his modification. With that knowledge, the approach might change.
I wonder if releasing the tension is what caused the failure? If he kept the tension on would it have opened or did he release tension because the pin dropped and the jig was up? If that's the case, why wouldn't this be a standard procedure on all locks from the manufacturer?
There is a tool he demonstrated at some point that tries to quickly throw the cylinder around before those pins can fall in a security system like this. It was a different lock I think, but it might work here too…
I expected him to get it open perfectly...but the point was to demonstrate (not on his Hines System lock, which is definitely a collector's item) how the trapping function works, by opening it as an ordinary picker would, nobody would expect a Kwikset to have that trap.
I'm reasonably certain he intentionally set off the trap at the end, since he has demonstrated being able to pick a Hines lock that was the inspiration for this design.
>thief breaks into home >"This is the LockPickingLawyer, and today we're going to look at how to pick the lock on this Remmington 12 Gauge Shotgun in less than a second"
And if you got time and good feel - like when it’s not freezing outside - those master discs can be felt out. The lock will feel quite a bit different to an experienced picker.
@@VAULT-TEC_INC. Oxford defines lockpicking as "to open a lock with an instrument other than the proper key." I think when the overwhelming majority of people say a lock was "picked" they mean someone used tools other than the key to open the lock. So if it didnt open, it wasnt "picked", regardless of what happened with the pins.
Used to have the "mushroom" pins that would replace the regular ones that would always bind up when picking was tried but they went by the wayside some time ago. And your first defense is to make sure everything is locked when not at home. Once had a nutcase in LA that was using a chainsaw and cutting around apartment door locks and then running away leaving the door open. Locks can discourage armatures but brute force is another matter.
I used to be a locksmith and never could be bothered with watching your videos lol (sorry, just being honest) and of course being a, stubborn locksmith who's pissed at the world I fit your stereotype perfectly for my opinion of your videos I'm sure lol. Though after just watching the first like minute of this video my perspective was changed and I respect THE HELL out of you for this. People used to come in all the time wanting medeco or Assa or Mul T Lok on their doors when they had full pane glass double doors and I'd tell them that it doesn't really make sense imo to do that (not talking out of a sale, but being a trustworthy professional I want to make sure they have facts) so seeing this intro warmed the crap out of my cold locksmith heart. Thank you, and keep doing you my man.
Amen! People need to have solid core entry doors or steel doors (pre-bored) for entry doors if they want the best security before putting medeco or any other high security lock on their doors. They also need some help not locking themselves out, which can be as simple as putting the medeco deadbolt (single cylinder) on with a hall or closet non-locking knob or lever meaning you have to use the key on the outside or thumbturn on the inside meaning you won't get locked out by accident.
Fascinating. It's an example of how very simple design changes can vastly improve the functionality of something. It's also an example of good design, in the Kwikset included the "construction holes" in the casting of the cylinder so that a locksmith could implement these changes. I love good design!
Kwikset includes construction holes in the cylinder so the lock can be construction keyed. The technique in this video uses those holes for a different purpose.
Given the way the lock was put into the frame, I'd imagine it can be pulled out the same way if you took it apart from the inside direction, and possibly just replace the core? No idea
@@ryanfields3247 I’m more intrigued how you slide out the cylinder if the pins are locked into it. Normally he puts a key in to lift the pins to the break points to allow the cylinder to slide out but that wouldn’t be possible.
I think the drive pin Column has a little sheet metal cap that can be removed to allow the springs and t pins to be removed allowing the cylinder to rotate again. The other solution is that once the lock is out of the frame to just get rid of it
@@mormonboy25 this was my thought as well. I'll know soon enough when my practice kwiksets arrive. I mean LPL wouldn't be evil enough to show us how to do something that permanently disables the lock, right? 🤣
Technicaly it wad picked open but whatevea To be truely resistant, the pin holes need to be exacttly aligned. Which is imposible. Evwn within 100 thousants its srull pickable but ye Aso sorry for shiry spellng on mobile
@@jugg1266 yeah, it exists and it mostly corrects the words you typed correctly into something else instead of correcting typos. besides, if they're watching on a PC, they probably don't have auto correct (i mean, there will be a red line under the incorrectly written words, but that's not the same). although if they were watching on a PC, it would be a lot easier to type correctly.
@@avrumisolaimani8546 yep...that's how I ended up buying my first re-pinning kit. Pins are one thing, but although small and easy to lose, they are virtually indestructable, but springs are a totally different story. They fly away, and/or get mangled You can never have too many spare springs.
It makes you wonder why given the simplicity of this modification, why hasn't Kwikset adopted this strategy as a commercially available option or part of their normal manufacturing process? And do you know if Shlage are susceptible to the same modification?
@@noble61483 Horrible example to use as garages are a huge weak point. It's a really thin very bendable (you can bend it by hand) piece of metal on a spring keeping it "locked" just force alone from a crowbar or anything fairly sturdy at the bottom of the door prying up will pop it right open then you have full access to the tools most people keep in the garage to access the house proper. Or just break a window. Thinking about it now locks have way better applications than houses.
We use to do that to "Old Man Pat" in our town. When we saw his old truck parked behind the bar, we would lock the doors and break off toothpicks in the keyhole so he had to walk home instead of driving drunk. This was back in the early 80's when key fobs weren't a common thing.
I'd love to see some videos where you explain the terminology and the basics of locks and locksmithing for those of us who don't have a history with them. The videos you have made showing the insides of different locks and systems are very illuminating. Thanks, keep up the great work 👍
While watching this I was thinking "if this makes it almost lock proof why don't they just manufacture it with these pins?"... then you got to the part about the lock seizing up lol
Took me forever to understand why the wafers wouldn't also pop down into construction holes, then realized they must be smaller than the normal pin holes. So the wafters wouldn't go down into them but the thinner T pins would.
@@paulvild The diameter of the construction holes is smaller than that of the wafers. So the wafers don't fit in the holes. The T-pins are smaller and they fit in the holes. When you use the key, all the wafers remain outside the core, thus blocking the T-pins to go into the construction holes. If you pick the lock, there is a great chance that some of the wafers remain in the core and such the T-pins will go into the holes and block the lock. I hope it's clear now.
A very interesting silent anti-intrusion solution. I think it could become even more viable if you machined the trap holes at an angle that would allow the core to rotate clockwise again. I imagine that even a professional locksmith would be confused by this (if they don't know your videos).
Would sort of defeat the "unpickable" part of the deal. If need be, an acute slope that when you try to turn clockwise, it isn't apparent that it CAN turn that way. Simple put, a steep and slightly rough slope that can be turned clockwise with enough effort and maybe some hits with a rubber mallet. You could make a little more safer to make slope start just ever so slightly higher that the "locking pit's" deepest point, so only when you hit it with a mallet and turn it clockwise at the same time will the pin reach the slope. The shock kicking the pins up, and the turn puts the pin on the slope. Bigger question is, do keys still work? Do the pieces still glide over? Not the mention the modification requires machine of sorts to cut it which throws away the "cheap, easy and under 5 mins" deal.
Amazing that, for so few dollars worth of parts and without having to change the design of the lock, the amount of security it can offer has been so drastically improved.
Advise from a retired real estate agent for an "insteresting" city: thick curtains. Overhang the edges, check visibility from outside. Also, be careful of "friends" who brag about stealing. Thieves value time as much as your stuff. If they don't know they can quickly get in & out, they will move to an easier hit ( unless you personally pissed someone off, then video cameras & hunting cams are your friend ).
Window blinds, semi-closed at all times (angled up to bounce sunlight off the ceiling). Plenty of people have curtains, but how many actually close them? Hell, some are just side strips that mimic curtains and can't be closed at all. I'm a delivery driver and I like to look at house lighting (frosted, shine up or down not out), addressing (large + high-contrast, ftw), and window coverings at night (I shouldn't be able to Netflix and chill with you while I'm driving by). Always nice to see Ring doorbells, or people turning their porch lights on before opening the door. And apartment dwellers who ask who you are before blindly buzzing you in.
@@PongoXBongo - Yeah, I can't stand those side strips that pretend to be curtains. When I moved in here, one of the first things I did was purchase blackout curtains for 90% of the windows in the home. I have nice blinds on a couple windows (Like the kitchen windows), but most of the windows have blackout curtains.
The "easier target" bit applies to bikes too - best security, besides locking up your bike with a good lock, is locking it up next to a similar or more valuable looking bike that is secured with a worse lock!
5:55 You *fool*! Now I know one of the possibilities that your locks are not. Next, I just need to watch another several million of your videos and I'll know everything that you're locks are not, leaving only one remaining possibility!
You can still manage this under $10, tiny fraction of security lock's cost. The only thing you really have to buy is t-pins and wafers. You could file-down the driver pins instead of buying wafers, but that's more effort than it's worth. Everything else is optional. Good tools make it a 2 minute project instead of a 20 minute one, but you can certainly do without. I've removed and re-inserted the cylinder with nothing but toothpicks and an AA battery.
Given the price per quantity he was mentioning, it'd be $1 or less /per lock/ to do more than one lock, even if you buy the wafers and pins. Based on what he said, something like $10 to $15 would buy enough parts do do dozens of locks.
When i moved to my new home the previous owners were hard pressed to find the house keys, they said they "misplaced them a couple months earlier". I told them not to worry about it, but after an hour of searching they did find them. After moving in and getting somewhat settled i realized i was unsure where the keys had gotten to. This was a dozen years ago and still haven't a clue what happened to them. It’s nice living in small town Canada, never having to lock our friends out if they need something and we're away.
I think he could especially knowing exactly what he needs to do, he just knows it’s difficult and picked it like anyone else trying to pick a lock at first might do
he could open it up, all the trick is, before you start turning you have to "fix" those pins and prevent them from dropping down, struggle is, you cant know this at your first try (unless you dont know where LPL lives ofc XD)
I'd like to see him get hold of a multi-lock with interactive pins. I think they still offer a $10K reward if you can pick one..I still have a few, but I'm not sure if they still sell them. They were to notch, but so was the price tag.
@@JeffLeiseth Burglars don't pick locks. They either smash a window or use a crowbar to the door (sadly learned from personal experience). It's not like a covert entry is important when stealing your shit is kind of a give away.
@@Cyclone001c That’s not true everywhere. There’s been a ton of farm robberies in my area where the robbers pick the padlocks, and then lock the lock behind them so you can’t easily tell they took anything without going into your sheds. A lot of farmers had to start buying pick proof locks when they found out insurance doesn’t cover robberies if there’s no proof of forceful entry
I'm a landlord and love your videos. This one really got me. Do you have a link to get the pins and wafers? I'd like to do this on the lock for a cabin I have in the mountains.
Although I have no interest in picking locks…yet… Lol, being a tech and precision tool person myself, I have to say your videos are very compelling to watch. Well done. Subbed.
Did you start yet? It's pretty fun. I just have a practice lock I can re-pin easily, from covert instruments. I put in some pins at random, pick it, then swap out the pins and go again. I found it to be much easier than I expected, or maybe I'm just having beginner's luck. I goofed around a bit with very cheap locks as a kid so I'm not totally new to it, but this is the first time I'm taking it seriously and using proper theory and technique with "real" locks.
Imagine coming back from vacation and finding that someone has (unsuccessfully) attempted to pick all of your exterior locks and you're unable to get in
@@ratataran a lot of discount stores around Boston I've seen sell four tubes of the generic no-name brand in the black and yellow tubes for a dollar. They're pretty much the same as the Loctite and Krazy Glue Brands. Basic cyanoacrylate is all the same.
After watching all your videos, I’ve become paranoid about my home security. I’m gonna do this to my whole house as well as 3 inch hinge and latch plate screws in the external doorframes. Eventually I’ll replace my windows with hurricane glass as well. I feel bad for the poor guy who tries to break in after I’m done.
A 3/16 drill bit at 3 and 9 o'clock will run the mounting screws out and the lock is defeated. No expertise just a cordless drill and a good drill bit. Less than a minute. Love your content !
If you're even slightly competent with a drill, you can drill those bolts out in such a way that the threads aren't even damaged. Remove the faceplate, drill the bolts out, replace the faceplate and the deadbolt can be reused. Drilling these deadbolts takes less than a minute.
He has it connected to the phone so it automatically calls the cops with a recording of him saying "this is the Lockpicking Lawyer and some idiot just tried to break into my home"
The ONLY weapons I don't keep a round in the chamber are PUMP shotguns....... at night, in the dark, from SOMEWHERE comes THAT sound...... and the one without the shotgun needs a change of clothing.
@@Pokarot Why is that? Pump shotguns make a really nice deterrent sound when racking a round into the chamber. Anything else should be locked and loaded.
Nice trick, as long as you use it on a LH inswing door. With a RH inswing door the cylinder plug rotates clockwise to draw the latch, thereby avoiding the construction key holes. Pretty sure you won't find the secondary holes on any brand other than Kwikset.
As a retired Locksmith I would like to point out that if your door is a right hand door or lock the theif can still pick the lock rob your house and leave as there is not a row of depressions if the lock is picked in the clockwise rotation.
Noticed that myself. This is just an adaptation of the "Hines" system, and equally vulnerable to the techniques used to defeat it- just use a spinner to race past the second bores before the master wafers can drop in them. What I do like is that this is a defense which nobody- not even an experienced locksmith or picker- could detect or would ever expect. It would be like hiding an Abloy core in a Master padlock body; security where nobody expected it!
I have played with a bunch of SCHLAGE locks, and their plugs have the construction keying holes to the Left of the pins, making it Perfect for Right-Handed doors.
You could but that then just gives the attacker another chance to go after it using a different technique (shim or reverse pick or whatever). This trick is really only effective because they must get it right the first and only time..
@@daemn42 If you were designing it from the start, you could engineer a mechanism that operates from the inside and lifts the jammed T-pins out of the holes so the lock can be "reset" without disassembling it. That's way beyond a simple DIY modification though.
Its why most people dont go for exspensive locks, and why its pointless... if they are going to brute force the lock like they then they will likely go for an easier way in, like a brick to a window.
If one of the dozen or so burglars we’ve had over the years actually picked our locks, I’d probably buy them dinner. Unfortunately they just kick the damn door in or smash a window.
You've had over a dozen break ins over the years!?🤯 I understand moving isn't always economically feasible, but unless you live in an empty home with nothing to steal (in which case why do they keep breaking in?), it would have to be cheaper to just move or get an alarm or a cheap doorcam. I guess I'm saying that you're either lying, or not very good at math😕
This actually seems more secure than any of the fancy locks. Anyone can RU-vid how to pick an arbitrary fancy lock, but this one is hidden, so anyone is going to accidentally seize it on the first try. I'd actually like to see a video on how to pick this though
@@tristanridley1601 i completely dont understand how exactly this works, can you explain please (I realise this sounds like sarcasm but i am serious, i lack the brainpower to imagine what exactly is happening)
@@amaizen4817 long explanation incoming. Lock picking works because you can feel when the pin is able to move and use pressure to hold the pin in that spot. Master wafers are designed to let more than one key open a door by making more than one spot move for the pin. Picking, you can't feel whether the spot you've found is the original or the new spot added by using a master wafer. If you're any good you find the first spot, which will be the one with the wafer still in the inner part of the lock that rotates. If you insert the key the wafer will be in the outer part instead. There are little holes drilled in the rotating part of the lock so that if the wafers are in that inner part, pins will pop into the holes and lock the whole thing up. If you used a key and the wafers are pushed out , the wafers are too wide to pop into the drilled holes so instead glide over and it unlocks.
I am so glad I found this video, I was engaging in a little tomfoolery earlier and I was able to pick my door locks in under 30 seconds with a couple of screwdrivers. btw I have never picked locks before, I just happen to know how a lock works and the basics of lock picking. Edit: Where can I aquier these pins? I have looked all over the place but I cannot seem to find them anywhere.
After someone attempted his house lock...."This is the lockpicking lawyer and today I'm going to show you how to open a Kitnerboy Redoubt safe using only this man's skull."
A lot more novices than pros, surely a pro could easily pick a high end lock, and surely they could pick through this if skilled enough to get all of the master wafers up, but if you’re a pro and you see this lock, you’re probably not thinking he rigged the lock to self destruct if I pick it, and he’ll pick it not knowing, ruining his chances of getting in, and ruining his chance of ever wanting to hit your house again
If a pro wants to get in, they'll get in. You can have whatever fancy locks and strengthened doors you want but at the end of the day, if someone wants badly enough to get in, they'll find a way in.
I've recently took apart a lock that has rounded driver pins! A six year old could rake it within ten seconds... so yeah I'll definitely make some security pins for it.
Looks to me like the lock cylinder will be locked to the lock body even if you take the E clip off at the back. The T pins are being pushed into the extra holes in the lock cylinder by the springs. All you can do is drill the cylinder from the front or back through the blind holes or try to shear the T pins to free the cylinder. This method effectively bricks the lock. Predrilling a hole from the back of the cylinder tangent to the diameter of the cylinder before reassembling for the first time so that you can slide a wedge into the hole to lift the T pins back out looks like the simplest non-destructive way to reset the lock.
@@peglor The T-pins are pushed down by the springs in the bible, hence removing the bible's silver cap will release tension on the springs that are pushing the T-pins into the "lost ball" construction holes drilled into the off-centre side of the plug. They will come out and release the plug from it's trap. Easy-Peasy
@@peglor No worries mate. Your method would be proper if the bible was sealed, however in this case (and most Kwikset locks) that bible cap is removable and then snaps easily right back on.
Funny enough, theres a book in Skyrim about locks and lock designs, and even that book mentions that its a waste of time and money to place a master lock on a wooden chest. If the lock is too hard, the container (or door) becomes the easier target, and this must be taken into consideration when weighing the cost/benefit of your security.
So does this mean when LPL losses his keys, he actually *can't* get back into his own home? Or is he going to show us the technique for defeating these modded locks? 👍
In the original 60's lock pick video he does just that... the trick is to assume that there is a wafer in each & then approach the pick as if all the pins have to be set above the 2nd shear plane... the pin & the wafer must be clicked before it is safe to turn the tension bar fully... of course I may be wrong I'm not a lock picker... I'm a carpenter... the 60's lock had a standard of the 2nd 3rd & 4th pins only having the wafer... there is the possibility that the wafers & T pins are in different pin holes as he said he would not show that arrangement in a vid... hence the solution is to assume that there are t pins & wafers in all... so once you are sure you have cleared the 2nd shear plane your T pins wherever they are should skate on the wafers like you used the key. See his video to confirm
If I knew this could be an issue I would use the pick method mentioned above and then put a shim over the spot where the T pins drop when I go to rotate the core just to be safe.
Probably because most people are ignorant to things outside their of their wheelhouse and so without a lot of marketing it would probably be hard to make a buck. lol start a kickstarter.
I would say most of your average thieves don't have a clue how to pick a lock, their method is usually a pry bar or simply just kicking in the door or smashing out a window. They're not going to spend a whole lot of time picking a lock, most of them are smash-and-grab and get the hell out of there.
I've struggled with the idea of getting a highend 'more secure' locks on my house. I came the the realization that locks only keep the honest, honest. Great video!
@@johnnylightning1491 True enough - just like any other security. I of course use multiple layers (just like I did in the job I retired from - Network Security Analyst) - and not just of technology (be it locks, guns, or alarms).
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