"Mooom, dad has bought a fidget spinner but won't let me play with it." "At least it's not another lock, I swear he'll get in trouble because of his hobby." "Oh, the spinner has 3 locks. " "..."
I missed the "it is" when reading your comment the first time and got an awesome mental image of him sitting on a bar stool, spinning like a madman, picking locks. x3
Very cool video as always, thank you LPL. Full disclosure though, it was built off a commercially made brass fidget spinner. I just cut down some kik's and soldiered them too it.
LockPickingLawyer as long as it doesn't stop you making more videos. The two weeks you had off to move was bad enough, i dont want to be responsible for any more down time🙂
@@kebien6020 except for the one L.O.T.O. lock they made. As LPL put it, amazing core in their worst body... As opposed to the their locks that are intended for actually locking things, where it's their worst cores in an otherwise decent body. ...as LPL himself put it.
To add my 2 cents. Shear line is the part that spins. Turn it to a picked position and then spin and it spins, turn it back and if it spins to the pins it locks shut. There's my idea
A simple solution would be to cut the cores from the front, so as to leave the back intact. IF so, then a simple lobe plate can be added. Once all 3 lobes are rotated by picking, it will spin. It would look like that Japanese symbol with the 3 commas.
looks like he not only did a great job of creating a challenge lock but he also balanced it for the spinner part. Nice pick. i enjoy your video, thanks.
Fr tho, I just rekeyed the lock to my bedroom door (literally today) to match my house key. If I shove the key all the way in, it’ll turn one way but not the other. To get it to turn the other way, I have to pull the key out just ever-so slightly, not even enough to know I’ve made a difference internally (to the pins)
sneaky bastard! i was thinking about doing that with a challenge lock! undercutting and profiling the core and the bible enough that a pin will FEEL picked but will lay sideways and basically give a VERY deep false set
That happens alot. So many times i have a challenge lock idea, only to see someone else do it. To be fair though i didn't come up with the slots in the core idea (cant remember where i saw it though)
Does anyone else find it concerning that the best locks seem to be homemade in someones shed? Every commercial lock seems to have a major flaw, or the inability to last more than a few minutes.
Well, mass production with common or simple parts = less production cost = more $ on sales. Add to that tricky labeling -unpickable, max security, ect. and most ppl take the bait. LPL enjoys exposing these facades.
the biggest flaw is the fact that the better they are and the more of them there are: the larger amount of tools for them exist... their goal is to produce and sell cheap, not to make every one unique and special
I am guessing there are reliability issues and ability to mass produce those things. It's no big deal if a challenge lock is indeed a bit hard to open. Way less desirable for your front door I've though
Hmm. He may well be the *only* RU-vidr I currently watch where a longer video is actually a good sign - in all the others it just means the person babbles/wastes time more - here, it *actually* means there's more content.
can't pick a lock that's being held from the other side, might have to sit there all night but that's when you hear a, "lockpickinglawyer here today to show you that your simple window locks are highly susceptible to an external shim attack."
Just a question how do you Europeans pronounce your numbers with a , in them? Like Americans would pronounce 0.5 seconds "(zero) point 5 seconds" but is that how the Europeans say 0,5?
You know the silver lock wasn't easy, I've never heard LPL breathe before whilst trying to pick a lock. You know it must be tricky if even LPL is 'grunting'. :)
@@robertbach9376 are they? I'm 99percent sure that inertia is mass dependent but momentum is mass and velocity. Being that velocity is a speed in any one direction and circular motion takes that away as it's changing direction constantly it doesn't have momentum unless an external force is applied creating angular momentum
These pick and gut videos just make me think if he was gonna break onto my house, he would remove the lock and tell me to get a better one just cause he got bored one day
LPL: You didn't click on this to see me playing. Well, actually, that's exactly why I allways watch his videos: watching him playing with locks and crack or hack them within a short time.
When I was in elementary school I easily picked one of those 3 digit bicycle locks by just feeling for the clicks when I rotated the numbers. Somehow it took me until adulthood to get into watching videos about regular locks. I never really wanted to get into trouble. I just like imagining how things work and finding out if I'm right.
I dont think the dual pins fitting unto each other or the homemade pins made much of a difference in the picking process. It was the undercuts and the variety of styles of pins used that did
If there is one thing that this channel has taught me, no matter how good a key-lock’s mechanism is, it’s only pick resistant if it’s keyhole requires custom tools.
Don't know if anybody noticed but the RU-vid buffering wheel is in the shape of a fidget spinner as well! Awesome challenge lock and very nice picking.
It's so amazing how far creativity has come on building challenge locks :D. I really thought the cool tripple locks from T&J and Daniel were the top, but they seem to be only the top of the iceberg ;). Absolutely cool and excellent craftmanship :). Thanks a lot for sharing :).
When i saw this. I was thinking if they had come up with a mechanism that would connect pins in the different locks to each other, making it that certain pins or sets of pins would lock in place other pins till they were picked.
If I was a locksmith, I'd build a challenge lock like the Bowley lock, but it would have 8 pins with 3 false sets at each end, plus they'd be angled like a Medeco lock. The two middle "pins" would be magnetic, rather than mechanical. This just might be only only guy in the world who could still pick it, but I bet it would take even him a long time!
Does he have a video that breaks down exactly what is going on while he's picking? Yknow, like where he explains all the jargon he uses to explain what's happening with each pin?
Imagine a six-pin core with these types of undercutting, serrating and spooling in a commercial lock with a robust body. Might it jam up on it's own with time and be impractical? I really like your videos, BTW and I am waiting for my first lock pick set from China (based on your recommendations).
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