Plastic of any kind is offensive to lock hobbyists to say nothing of how easily some joker can steal your stuff. All of my locks even daily use ones were made before 1950.
"I'm gonna... take it to the basement... to die and be melted... and I'm gonna stick a screwdriver in it and turn." Have you ever considered writing psychological thrillers?
i would buy these locks and put them everywhere just to annoy people and also as decoys so anyone that wants to steal my stuff can go through 100 locks before they just give up from trying to find a needle in a haystack
@@silverion6182 actually, I once say a video with nearly 666 comments, so I commented periods till 666, then wrote the 667th comment. It was a doom video
@@Edward-Not-Elric Bro neither cable ties or this lock would be better that’s the final argument. Are you actually serious you’d trust cable ties over a shit looking lock (still looks like a lock tho)
grade lower than a cheap rubber band, however i have seen worse, a pressed steel lock, with a ward locks from pressed steel, they were 6 for a dollar! lol
You think that's bad? I once bought a bunch of super cheap Chinese locks, the small ones used for books and tiny boxes. The cores of 2 or 3 of them cracked from turning the key.
Once in China I bought a lock for my bike, I broke it by mistake when taking it out of it's package, it was unfortunately weaker than the plastic cable ties.
I still remember my middle school's lockers were locked with super cheap locks - all keyed alike too, not that they told us students that - that were so cheap they'd have the core crack or even fully shatter from the recoil of the lock opening when the body wasn't held in place. Discovered when I accidentally shimmed it open with some dirt or something (I closed it up and it popped open on its own like six seconds later, then the key stopped working because the core was in pieces) Told a few friends, they tried on their own locks (nobody really cared if the locks were broken or not, they were mostly used to keep the lockers closed, because, as I said, they were all keyed alike so everyone could open everyone else's locker too), then word got around and a few days later someone went to every single one of the 400-ish lockers with a shim and shattered all of their cores. Every single one was left unlocked and inoperable, many wouldn't ever be able to close again, the rest would never unlock the normal way when/if they got closed. A few had the shackle crack in the process too.
It doesn't really matter. Just the presence of a lock will deter most people, and everyone else will likely try bolt cutters first. I doubt anyone will even think about using a screwdriver...unless they've seen this video.
Better alternatives: - The Canadian approach (don't lock anything); - Thirld World Country approach: Don't lock it, don't paint it, thieves will think nothing valuable is inside.
you would be surprised, but China actually makes some quality things. but they ain't selling them - they keep good stuff for themselves and sell such garbage
Fester Blats I have it from a recent post on a Chinese RU-vid channel (in English), that they often rely on the efficiency of their police state to secure things that would be easily stolen in the west.
I've seen worse. Bicycle cable lock. Pretty small. Brass core. 4 pins. All that in plastic box. The plastic box had 2 parts .. the square 'vessel' in which the core was sitting, and 'lid', which went around the keyhole. All like 1mm thick, clicked together (unglued). You would think .. simple, yet normal working lock. Well .. NO ! The pins were not soldered in the core ! There were not retained in any way .. the pin shafts were just open from outside .. and the pins were held inside by the plastic sheet ! When assembled together, you could unlock it with key and all .. but all you had to as use some edge to pop out the 'lid' of the plastic casing .. pull the core out .. and poing poing, all the springs and pins went flying, making the lock a non-lock. I got money returned (my mom bought it), and I even persuaded the shop to stop selling those, wasn't really that hard. Well at least the owner said that :-D
It’s strangely wonderful to see this earlier video to hear the difference in presentation and voice. You’ve become so polished it’s fun to experience a more “raw” version. Videos like yours, Steve Mould and a few others have been a great source of joy for me. Thank you for not only your more concrete contributions in holding lock companies accountable but also for generally enriching our lives.
Well I the new age restriction shit is this far hack proof, not even VPN or any of the other methods that used to work gets you past it anymore (for a while you could simply pass it by using VPN set to a country in Asia). I had this account since youtube was created but that is not good enough for google, they want me to send them copy of my passport or drivers license now to get past it. I am 50 year old and restricted to only watch kids shows on youtube...
@@ImTheBluestBird I started using 7-zip 10 years ago instad of winrar, because it was able to decrypt more formats. Hence I'm not updated on the state of winrar, but I'd suspect it's still the case.
@@ChrisTian-sd5yq Damn- was hoping I'd open up the replies to this and it'd have people going 'yeah xyz was the worst' so I wouldn't have to look myself. 😂
Personally, I found the gun safety lock he picked with just a twig (with the leaves still on it) the most baffling. it wasn't the worst material I guess, but no thought or care went into this. It's fun to watch him break apart cheaply made padlocks, but those are rarely ment to prevent life-threatening accidents. His whole gun "safety" series has the worst locks imo, just because the promises and the stakes were so much higher.
I have a little 4-pin Master Craftsman padlock. If you start at the back, you only need to pick one pin. However, that takes more skill than turning a screwdriver with a C wrench.
Some Employee: Hey boss i see you used my design for our cheaper lock model. Boss: yep, it was a good design, though to save money we replaced the core body with plastic and made the springs out of copper. Employee: you weren't supposed to do that.
I would be really interested to explore the plug by filing down some of the 'brass' to see if it's actually some sort of electroplating over aluminum or pot metal. Geez, his horrible, haha.
Git Pick'd Yep, very likely true. About 10 years ago I had a refrigerator that suffered from a broken door switch. I took it apart only to discover that the contact points were simply brass plated pot metal. That switch gets thousands of operating cycles and yet Kenmore saved a buck buying it from China SMH
@H M of course every country got scammers, but not every country got scamming as a part of their culture like china(though there are few other examples out there as well). If you had a chance to scam a foreigner and didn't = you're weak, and basically frowned upon
Reminder: Chinese people can send people to space and land a rover on the moon if that's what you pay them to do. Not their fault that the Western world pays them to make cheap shit. They didn't show up with warships in our ports and force us to open our market to these, we literally went over there and started multinational companies to utilize their cheap labor.
tybofborg nah the only way to do business in China is to imagine every possible way they could skimp or cut corners and explicitly say that you’re not allowed to do it. They’re not forced by our low prices to cut corners they just choose to sacrifice workmanship for profit ten times out of ten
@@SSSa222a I'd like to know where you're getting that from. Because my job involves sourcing parts from China, and let me tell you, they can deliver any quality you need. My boss, however, will always insist we go with the cheapest option. I try to get away with getting higher quality parts because I know that our coworkers, the ones who actually have to work with the parts, will struggle with the cheap parts, not to mention the finished product will be of worse quality. But my boss doesn't care about that, he only cares about his bottom line. And isn't that Western capitalism in a nutshell. It's the working class who has to deal with shitty workmanship from China, but it's the capitalists who are sustaining it by choosing the cheapest product every time.
Too complex. They sell simple but reliable single use tamper evident locks for shipping containers. Lock after filling the container and e-mail lock serial number to recipient. Recipient simply checks if it's still the same lock.
This is one of his earliest videos: his voice became the calm lawyer voice we all know and love around video 500. I don't know how he changed his narration, but he went from basically just talking in videos (like in this one) to becoming an excellent narrator within a pretty short time.
That's the Hyper Tough lock from Walmart. I used to pick one for fun, because it's a real challenge to actually pick it open without accidentally sticking the pick too far in and releasing the unprotected shackle.
I might have a contender for that lock... when I first started lockpicking I bought a bunch of cheap padlocks to start. One from Dollarama was extra special. I put a turning tool in the core and before I even got a pick in, the lock popped open. Turns out, the core turns with any pressure stronger than a light summer breeze.
I’m in the military and, sadly, we have dozens of these in our supply room. We use these on tons of things, conexes, ISUs, weapons cages, vehicles, etc. This actually isn’t that surprising.
I'm certainly no lawyer, but it sure seems like there should be some sort of grounds for legal action against Master Lock corporation. False advertising, failure to perform the function for which it is sold... something! I just can't stand the fact that they are able to produce, sell, and *profit* from selling locks that offer no substantial protection. And they are sold under the premise that they *do* offer protection. Just.... wow.
floorpizza This is a "dollar store" knock off, not a real "Master" brand lock. There's about 30 of these fake "Master" locks in use in the laundry room of my apartment building on tiny lockers. Ironically the "Tide" or whatever the they are "protecting" cost more than the lock. 😁
LPL talked about not-locks that were used for low security applications as a way to keep a hasp closed and to discourage the casual busybody. Super cheap. The packaging proclaimed in all-caps: THIS IS NOT A LOCK.
He forces locks open a little differently from how they do things on DemolitionRanch. Loved the video man! I just discovered your channel yesterday and have been having a blast.
I had one of these on a generator fuel tank where after it was exposed to the heat of the sun in Florida it opened by turning firmly with the wrong key. It was amazing.
In England, these are probably the most common lock for sheds, gates fences, things of this nature, appalling they make locks like this, probably about 70% of where I live alone have this lock
I have one of these; it's the basic lock that's used for bell cable-style bike locks. Mine was inside this plastic enclosure that was actually deep enough to stop some picks, but I literally was able to cut it off with scissors.
I had the same lock but it was a 50mm and I did the same test and got the same results. I was going to use it to lock up my $4000.00 Mountain bike. I’m so glad I got to see your video thanks
He could've just stared at really hard and it would have fallen apart. I'm always amazed how he knows seemingly by esp what to try on each lock. I'm not worthy to sit at the feet of the master.
This video definitely has a charming quality to it compared to the new videos. Especially since the LPL in this video had no idea this video would eventually get over a million views.
@@jeremywestern7067 Bruh. Ever seen "Terminator 2?" Extreme cold temperatures cause solids to become brittle. This is no secret. As something becomes harder, it also becomes more prone to sheering or shattering. Soft things are malleable, hard things are not. Assert that I'm wrong all you want, physics will still disagree with you.
What brand was it? Do you ever swing a hammer down on the lock to knock the shackle out? It is very crude, however it used to work in the old days using locks that had no keys. LOL
Many Chinese devices (and merchandise in general) are made with great attention in reducing the production costs and the use of "strategic" metals, with copper replaced with tin/iron alloys, steel with zinc/manganese, aluminium plainly prohibited. On top of this, many items - like the lock you show - are made to play the part, a mock-lock, so it has a plastic cylinder that you cracked with a screwdriver. Nothing bad in producing a toy lock in principle, if they sell it as a toy lock. But when, so skillfully, a toy lock is given the appearance of a real lock, then it quickly becomes a fraud. Recalling Cicero: "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?". Thank you for the delicate but powerful irony you show us, everytime you open a padlock in such rapid and masterful way. Regards from the UK...
I used to have a lock just like this on my garage door. Never had a key for it, but kept a hammer leaning against the wall. Just one downward blow and the thing would obediently pop open, faster than you could dig a key out of your pocket! But it was always good to close again! Used it this way every day for three years!
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