you sound as good as ever

💪 not distracting ;)

@@inigopatch420 yes i agree

You sound fine to me. Hope you feel better!

Don't lie, you had a few good men moment in court haha but for real, your health is most important so feel better!

Understand, yes. Replicate? Hardy-ha-haw, no.

These are some of my favorite videos on the channel so far!

@@ethelryan257 yes but a better understanding could lead to future replication

I was thinking the exact same thing. This really give you a in depth of what you should be feeling for. It also make you think I could do this. I a firm believer that confidence in something is important. This would give me the confidence to try it knowing that I can see in my mind what is happening so it can happen with practice of course

Cant wait for the Ramset view

That goes back to the concept of the purpose of a lock being to keep honest people honest. If a thief wants something that's secured by a lock, the fastest way to get it is by cutting the lock or chain or breaking a door or window. But these attacks are often noisy, and even when they're quiet - like cutting a chain/lock with bolt cutters - it still looks suspicious. But picking a lock one pin at a time also looks suspicious, while raking a lock can be made to look like someone is having trouble with their key. The moral is, anything you can do to make a prospective thief decide your possessions aren't worth the risk of being caught will make you less likely to be robbed. Sometimes this means buying high quality (expensive) locks, but a Master lock can achieve the same effect by being left right out in the open where anyone trying to open it without a key will have to do their work in full view of anybody passing by. TL:DR Privacy is a thief's best friend. Denying them privacy is often the same as denying them access.

Why don't lock manufacturers just use serrated pins on everything to prevent rake attacks? It seems straightforward to do

@@halahmilksheikh It adds a lot to the manufacturing cost. With standard pins you just buy a rod of correct diameter and cut it to correct lengths. With serrated you then have to take all those pins, and spend 3 times more time on cutting out the serrations

Note: Comment above is an educated guess for pins made on a small ledge by hand. While not exactly my area of expertise, I work in as a technologist for the making of Induction Furnaces Pretty sure they would have an automatic mass production system for those, but in that case it still adds the extra step, which would require purchase of extra machines, extra space, and later recalibration of the machines to fit the new rhythm.

@@oicmorez4129 pretty sure they'd just make the on a screw machine/swiss turn which is most likely where both regular and spool pins are made. 100% gonna be more expensive b/c of the additional cutting tools required but when you're making a million of these things on a screw machine we're talking fractions of a fraction of a cent. Still likely a part of the equation but I'm thinking other things okay a much larger larger role, like materials, tolerance & quality of other parts, durability, etc.

Hey bud, great name.

THE CLONES ARE HERE

@@Aditya-wg3lp this is getting out of hand, now there are 2 of them!

In theory, yes it's that simple. You ever actually tried picking security pins tho? This guy is one of the best in the world, so obviously he makes it look easy

Not just the ability for the pin to move up and down freely, it has to be under spring tension. You can see how the security pins keep the spring under tension but allow the key pin to slide around freely. Really good visual to show what you're looking for, little bit freedom of movement but you should also feel the resistance from the spring when it's set right...

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thrown off by the firmly

Those are different types of binding, but firmly binding is really rare

i'm outraged! unsubscribed! (obvisouly jking) xD

Haha threw me off too! He lulled us into a false set before

He did also say it again to make sure it was _not_ a fluke

Somewhere The Macho Man Randy Savage is rotating in his crave!

GREAM OF THE GROP!!!

It took him minutes because of education Else he will click the shit out of that in seconds

Given how even a 100-year-old screw machine could spit out such pins, it is odd. I've found them in one lock that I own! When I replaced the cylinders to the dozens of locks in our house, I modded them just enough to make picking slow.

@@marwanfakhradin2543 it also prevents raking which is pretty much the easiest/lowest skill non destructive method of opening a lock. Opportunists would likely be prevented more frequently

@@marwanfakhradin2543 But we had the alternatives where he was much faster while educating. With the other pins he did not have to return to a pin for multiple times. given these samples it looks like seraded pins compared to spools or straight pins significantly slow down a lawyer trying to get into your back door.

I was thinking just the same. I'm definitely getting some of those serrated things.

Using Machinists Tool Dye (Purple) one could stain either the Core or the Housing to provide a better Visual Differentiation.

@pyropulse I don't even know _what_ a sheerline is.

The shear line is the place where the rotating and the static part of the core meet. For the core to turn, the gaps between all driver and key pins must line up with the shear line

@pyropulse correction, _you_ can easily tell where the sheer line is. Not everyone can

Watch closely at 3:51. The moving part has holes in it. That's the place where the ends of the pins should align - then they're not in the way and the lock can be opened.

Wow, you are also a legend to do this in an extremely intense scenario like that.

That is a great observation. Would you happen to know if you can feel the serrated pins, when single picking?

@@kevinalfaro6531 LPL mentions it a lot in other videos "I think pin X must be serrated, and feels like a few spools", so with enough skill, yes. For novices? Well probably if the pin next to it is regular you'll notice it sticking a lot more like his where he often had it stick multiple times before getting fully into position. I've noticed this on one of the locks I haven't yet been patient enough to pick, and now I think I know why... Because its acting exactly like this, especially the part he said about raking because other locks weren't sticking in incorrect positions like that one was after raking. So if that's the case then yes even novices can probably feel the difference, but its honestly hard knowing what it is until you've got a good video explanation like this plus hands on a lock with known serrated pins to feel what its like to look out for in the future.

@@kevinalfaro6531 You can't tell just from the way it feels against the pick per se; however, if after a 'click' it's still binding, or if it's binding again when you come back to it later, then it's a security pin of some sort. Just keep checking each pin each pass, since you won't know which are and aren't security pins (or how many serrations there are)

@pyropulse No need for this. Everyone was a beginner once.

Agreed! This is the best LPL videos that I have seen, and I have watched many (most) of them.

The black box effect is when something has internal workings obscured from its users. In these instances users have the input and output values but don't know the mechanism of how the output was arrived at. With a lot of locks, the security exists ONLY in the black box effect. As you learn how the mechanism works, or how poorly its made, you remove the black box effect- its not lacking a key keeping people out, its the general public not knowing the lock is a piece of sht 😂. The entire locksmith trade used to be a REALLY secretive guild. Seeing is YUGE with picking isn't it?

I’d like to see that as well. I can pick spools. I can pick serrations. I have trouble with spool & serrated combo. Maybe also serrated spools?

@pyropulse Everything is super simple when you know how to do it, calculus, ballistics, rocket science, etc. Not so much when you don't. Things that are psycho motor skills take time to develop.

@pyropulse easy to say when you can see it but when you're working by feel and sound alone it's not always easy to tell if it's binding or if you're pushing it to the top or even which pin you're pushing. It's not like the springs are always strong enough to give you much feedback every time. So while it may be simple, that doesn't necessarily mean it's easy

@@BryanTorok that‘s the nice thing about picking locks. The theory is super simple and understandable for everyone. But even though I know how to pick a lock, I still can‘t open all of them. Nothing is so easy and so challenging at the same time.

Go check out the keynote he gave for a digital security conference.

Same I"ve been oversetting pins badly :(

@pyropulse Wow, you're so smart and cool 🤓

@pyropulse sounds like you're little miss perfect you should try to remember theres alot of people who don't know what the fuck they're doing or things that only make sense to someone who has experience picking locks

Time to buy a master lock and a couple paper clips :)

This is the view you should have in lockpicking mini games for fallout and stuff like it.

Agreed

@@UyeGaming The old Splinter Cell games had something pretty similar

@@UyeGaming -- ESO picking is kinda like this.

Same :-)

I didn't realize this until reading your comment. Thank you!

it helps if you ever did a repinning with serrated pins :D

Multiple thumbs up to you my friend (although yt only allowed one!) I just could not understand! Was about to write an agitated comment to LPL! Oh well, only took you halfway through the video...took me watching it twice and scrolling through the comments!!

I also thought that they were springs, until I saw that the horizontal lines were indeed horizontal, and highly unlikely to be spring wire..

Just drop the 'g' and the space every time you see a Chinese made one.

@@Kineth1 wyze is an iot/consumer electronics company and we all know about how secure consumer electronics companies make their lockboxes..

I believe it wouldn't make it completely impossible, but you might need to pick some pins multiple times.

i was curious about that too

The issue there is manufacturing tolerances. With locks, there have to be working clearances so that the parts inside the lock can move, regardless of temperature, humidity, or even wear and grit ingress. Even the very highest quality locks constructed to very tight tolerances have some allowance for differences in manufacturing and the usage and wear of the lock and key. Within those tolerances it is not physically possible to make a lock so "tightly" designed that two or more pins will bind at EXACTLY the same time during the lock rotation, that's simply impossible. You could make each individual piece of the lock all the way down to the springs working on the pins designed and manufactured to qualities and tolerances that would result in a lock costing tens of thousands of dollars, and still it would be pickable using these techniques.

The tolerances would have to be almost perfect. I seem to remember one lock he picked on this channel that went back and forth a lot with dropping pins but there's too many videos to recall which one!

I wonder if this could be used as a feature of a challenge lock

Reminds me of x-ray option in certain videos...wink wink

Well, I call BS, but even if not. You literally answered to a comment saying "I learned from this video" with "I didn't". What's your point ?

That's why there are picks with more or less curvature .... ;-)

Thanks… I hadn’t thought of that. Changed. 👍

I believe he said that was next week

"Sorry, i'm not the LockPickUPingLawyer..."

pick what's binding, not necessarily the high cuts

It's oodles of fun... and highly addictive...

He could pick my lock if you get what I mean.

LPL: **pulls out Ramset** "They always forget about good old glockpicking"

@@garyhost354 you'd have to have a lock first.

@@garyhost354 Weirdo.

@@garyhost354 save your horny comments for April 1st

Shut up

When he dies God will lock him out of heaven but he'll just pick the gate open.

@@ThePrufessa oh dang, you right.

And when they are like three doors deep all the doors behind them close and have even more difficult locks on the inside. Then the speakers in the corner of the room blare with "I want to play a game..." and the room starts filling with water.

@@GiantMoth and the lock in question is a Abloy Protec2 Game over.

Cost and laziness

gin or barrel spools and the corresponding core milling

An entire industry refusing to innovate.

This is the LawyeringProfessionalLocksmith, and what I have for you today is advice for resolving a property line dispute with your abutting neighbor.

There is such competition, I think LPL mentioned somewhere that he won one.

He didn't record it, but he came in first place in the first one he entered

Its not the cost of the materials, it is the cost of operating the machinery and labor required to make them. Only way security pins will become more common is if competitors start introducing them and the consumers start buying them in preference to the normal locks.

@@sonicmastersword8080 Why for? LPL opens them as usual pins ))))

@@krutoyinfo -- Security pins usually require single pin picking. A lock with just standard pins can often be raked, so LPL usually doesn't even pick them.

x-ray henti

He is putting tension on the cylinder. This causes the pins to bind as they receive a sheer force between the core and housing. Sorry if I got any terms wrong.

They are binding against the walls of the pin chambers, at the shear line, as you are applying rotation.

Each pin stack is sitting in a "tunnel" that has a sheer (i.e. separation) line at the switch from cylinder to housing. By putting rotational tension on the cylinder, the tunnel wants to sheer apart at that interface line. Unless the pin stack is in exactly the right position one of the pins in the stack will get lodged and "bind" against the walls of the tunnel.

He's twisting the core toward the camera at the top, so the metal just behind the pins (from our perspective) is what's binding

the side of the pin chambers

Well, first you apply a little tool force. If it doesn't click you release a bit of pressure. You will mix both. If you watched the Spool video you saw that you can have counter-rotation, so you have to give a little less pressure to let the lock move. Also, you can overset a pin, where you push the bottom pin to the top way and lock it there, happened to me a lot when I started; this can also be solved with a little release and counter-rotation. I started with a very cheap chinese tool set, no shame in that, but you should get a sandpaper and clean the tools to make it easier.