Covert Instruments Arbiter Lock Bypass Set 

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Another Covert Instruments review. This time we look at the Arbiter bypass kit!

You are 100% correct; that the Adams Rite Bypass tool has little application in the UK or anywhere outside of the USA due to tighter keyways, but the double hook tool for commercial doors is more relevant than some might expect - huge number of these on shop door fronts... Great review BTW.

The Covert Instruments Stuff shows the Thought that went into it. But I noticed the same thing with my case from the Echelon-Set... Thanks to the very strong Neodymium Magnet inside, it will sooner or later magnetize any and all Steel-tools you Store inside. So far I've had no problem with that while Picking, but I think It could pose a problem in some special Locks, so its best to keep that in mind. Anyway Nice Video as usual, thx

Yours is the first time I've seen the 'walking nubs' explained; now they make sense. Bypasses aren't SPP but can be fun too. In some of my work, getting access non-destructively is the goal however it's done. The folding hook works for older 'Adams-Rite' store-front door locks, but their newer ones are shielded and the through-the-keyway hook access is blocked too. Still a lot of old ones in use here in the US.

Another great in-depth review!! Keep 'em coming!!

Very cool, and thank you for the demonstrations!

Tuanks for the rundown. I just got my arbiter today and i wasn't sure exactly how the two commercial tools worked. This was a fabulous demo as well as review.

fantastic video. so educational. i don't even own this set and found your run through incredibly accessible. Thank you so much.

Merry Christmas. Thanks for a year packed full of great information. 🇺🇸

This is exactly the video I was looking for. Thanks!

Someone had to do it; it may as well be me: Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 04:29 Adams Rite Wire Bypass Driver 06:19 Traveler's Hook 06:56 Credit Card Latch Slipper 08:03 Padlock Bypass Driver for Unshielded American Locks 09:30 Commercial Door Hook 11:25 Knife Tool 12:10 Notched Decoders 14:55 Conclusions: Things I like 17:00 Conclusions: Things I don't like and/or would improve 19:43 Cost

Excellent man, your presentations is standard for high quality.

Thanks for an excellent review. Merry Christmas!

Great bit of kit mate 👍👍

I have most of what you spoke of but not the Credit card style tool. I do like you show what each tool is and how to use them. At least it gives me a better understanding that I was using the wrong tool for the situation. I like your videos they are helpful

Nice review. It's good to see that they do ship to the UK. I've got a couple suggestions; For the decoder tools I too would like two feeler tools, one for each thickness, where there isn't extra thickness in the handles and the last half inch of the tips are angled down to a point, where the 'point' has a 2mm flat filed on the end. I did this with the Dangerfield decoders (which are shipped with smooth rounded tips) to make feeling the ridges easier. Also, I would like the notches on the notches decoder tools to have an angle from the shaft nearer 90deg instead of the symmetrical V. It would be nice to have the American lock bypass tool in Left handed as well as Right to fit through Left handed warding. Drilling a hole through the corner of the door latch slip tool for a pull strap would be great too.

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Nice kit! Thanks for sharing Ash and take care. I hope you, micro and mini have a very merry Christmas.

Thanks for the review!! Merry Christmas everybody‼️⛄️🎅🎁🎄

Those decoder tools. So thin and bendy and good, you told us twice! Merry Christmas, mate.

You’re supposed to open it up then stick it to something metal like a door frame that your working on the lock on so it’s open and you can get and out back the tools as you use them. Also covert instruments does sell their own patches. They even sell a patch that’s a pinning tray that you can actually use right on the case so it’s a useful patch. You know how you were walking the latch you can use the travelers hook to something semi similar like it kind of digs I to or grips the metal then you turn your wrist kind of pushing the latch into the door. Peterson sells a shield breaker for American Locks. The hole idea on the latch slipper was very good. I also like how you mentioned the fit and finish. You always have very good ideas. I hope you share them with manufacturers like Covert Instruments. Have you heard of the k-tool. I just learned of them today. Firefighters use them.

Great review, Happy Christmas and keep up the good work 👍

As always a superb review. We must have been thinking on the same page as all the things you mentioned that would be minor tweaks, I was thinking exactly the same thing. Have a wonderful Christmas with your family good sir.

Great video Ash mate 👊👍😎😊🇬🇧

I have the genesis kit and I put black heat shrink on all the handles, it makes them easier to grip and they look a little better.

For me personally, I think the latch tools are not so good in the uk market as our doors tend to open in, so you have a door stop in the way, the adams rite with the 2 wings is a very nice tool, the locks they are for were very common in the 80's, the padlock tools great, as you said a 3rd tool would be most helpful. Thanks for sharing. 👍

Lock Noob it's the best 👍👍

I would say this set isnt just the US market but all of North America and probably central and south America as well.

They NEED TO make a titanium version of the American Bypass driver. Best working Bypass driver I've had, meaning it actually works unlike The Sparrows. Only thing is my CI bypass driver already broke and I got it on Black Friday.

I like the idea of the set, but it does seem to be quite specialised. Cool if you have a lot of stuff it would work on though. :o)

I noticed you didn't show the latch slipper in correlation with the travelers hook

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wow, im second. now you know i am a hardcore fan of you.

Possibly already a video and I just haven't found it but if not a video on using the notched decoder to decode not bypass a padlock like a M176 would be appreciated. I have mostly found bypass videos.

Good review!👍😀🐾🐈🐈‍⬛🐾🇬🇧🍻☃️

Love the idea of a bypass kit, not so sure about the tool style or price. Notched decoders an advantage? Locknoob hasn't sold me on the concept. Travellers hook and card bypass? Don't know about that. I like that case though. I'd go with a couple of decoders, mini-jim, thumbturn bypass drivers, mica sheets, shank/knife, and maybe adams rite and American padlock bypass. That lever-latch tool though ❤ Going to wait for that as a separate.😊

Ive bout the arbiter kit am I the only one not able to properly use the bypass driver I have watched video after video I I sent it straight clicks after wiggling and I can not turn it I am using an 1100 American lock

How much did you get it for on the Black Friday sale? I want to know for next year's possible % discount. 💰

Halo Mr. LockNoob. Ich wollte Lishi für EU zilinder kaufen. Ich wollte Ihnen fragen welche Arten von Lishi sollte ich besorgen. Danke für Ihre Antwort. Lockpicker Pegasus

I bought a Genesis set from Covert In., and found the picks easy to bend ..... too SOFT

Enjoy the set. You might not find any tools made of a better metal.

6:34 was it intentional or accidental? Anyway, nice to see you 😀

Every time you say America/USA please please continue to use the eagle and the flag. Lol

My cousin is a licensed locksmith and says that that company is a scam. It's associated with a lock picking channel. Merry Christmas too you and God bless 🙏🎄

Decoder? lol. Lock pick for pin and wafer locks. Cheapest pick set iv'e ever seen lol and I'm a Master locksmith. Haha. Did you forget about the deadbolt? for latch slipping devices? 🤣

Another pile of useless junk, nothing there that some wire and a plastic bottle won’t do the same thing !!!

I am glad you are not a 100% fan boy when it comes to this company. Nothing is perfect. I bought this kit knowing I wouldn't be using some of the tools but still wanted them for my collections. I am going to add a hole in the latch tool like on OscarDelta's now discontinued Hookitool.

An euro version would be nice