Love it, who needs to use a table when cutting with saw, Bill only needs a 5 gallon bucket, exactly as I would have done. Great review Bill love your skills and teaching! Truly a wonderful person!!

I’m impressed with your wood working skills

Appreciate all the extra work that went into this for a good demo! Thanks Bill!

Great videos, like how you show or let us hear what's going on in the locks. I've been a locksmith for 30 years but I learn something new almost every day, watching you included. Thnx Bill

In the Balkans (Eastern Europe) we call it the cannon, because it remind it to a cannon tube, and it's common among thieves.

I love your videos, you’re so multi talented and hard working. I’ve learned so much from you over the last couple years. Thank you!

And this is why you are the coolest guy on youtube. Thanks for all you do Bill!

Cool demo! I've never seen one of these and probably wouldn't have guessed they'd be that effective. Great video!

Indeed! Very nice work Bill!

Oh man, I love seeing a good glue squish when the clamps tighten. You're a man after my own heart. : )

And this is why this is the best lock channel :->

Being a postman in the UK and out of all the doors I deliver to that have these euro locks only about 3% of them are exposed the other 97% are either flush or recessed so buying a $100 tool to get through about 3% of the euro locks is a little pointless

Yo, sick video. I appreciate the time it took. Respect.

That's incredible, how the lock just came apart like a peace of clay

Neat tool, great idea. Good luck to whomever ends up winning it. I hope they get good use from it. Not a giveaway for me, I doubt I'll ever encounter that style of lock. Excellent video as always Bill. Keep up the good work.

Gee Bill, thank you for this "show". I like all the time and effort you went to so that we would have a much better view of the lock breaking.

Absolutely great video Bill .😎

An engineer and now a carpenter Bill. Great video .

It's nice to see your other talents come into play Bill, nice job on the mock up!

I came for the lock tech... I stayed for the woodworking though. Loved to see you building the frame, simple but hecking effective way to show off the tool.

Very cool! Great video

For some reason I expected bill to use the This Old Tony one inch punch to cut the wood

Excellent job there Bill..

I'm lucky to have an EVVA (I chose that based on lock picking videos) with a protective shield on the outside and only sticking out by 1mm on the inside. The door itself is Class 3 which exceeds the insurance requirements. There is also an attack that shears the M5 bolt that holds the cylinder inside. That's why Evva cylinders come with a hardened bolt. Some mortise locks have a feature that detects the snapping and seizes the lock. This prolongs resistance and prevents non-destructive entry. The handle assembly that you used is very cheap. Most main entrance doors have a much sturdier one that doesn't allow you to wiggle the cylinder. One reason why Evvas have that special spine is modularity. A licensed locksmith will be able to adjust the length to make it protrude less. Or to reach through if you have extra thick door. The cheapest breakable cylinders are called construction cylinders because they are meant to be used while various workers take turns in the complex. Once the final owner moves in, he is supposed to swap it with his own, more secure cylinder. But some people just don't care until burglary happens. Actually, some people don't even care after that!

Very insteresting. I have lived in Europe all My life and have never come acrosse a eurolock... Nice to finaly see one mounted.

Thank you for this great video. Best regards from germany

And that is why I installed a correctly sized, sacrificial snap cylinder and hardened handle set when I moved in over 10 years ago 😊 Over in my area of the UK the housing associations tend to install euro cylinders with 15mm+ of external stickout for the exact reason of snapping them should they ever need entry. One of them has started fitting TS007 3* cylinders on their new door refurbs though (while probably keeping a key and the key code card).

I enjoyed the episode. Good information.

Impressive build and presentation. Nice work! .

I love your shop.

Thanks for showing us Bill -- I am familiar with these tools, but being in the US I've never used one or seen one used -- GREAT DEMO!

VAT varies by country in the EU. In some countries it's 19%, or 38% on some items. In the UK it's 20%.

Great job

This was so cool to watch, what a great tool to use. I am not going to enter the drawing, because I am not a locksmith, but I did enjoy watching this vid. Bill, great information as always. I really enjoy your channel.

Neat tool, even better montage music, Bill!

Most conventional door handle covers in Europe actually protect from attacks like this by not letting it protrude from the cover. You're looking at a pretty cheapo or ancient door if it has this vulnerability, which probably won't hold many valuables.

i really really enjoyed your build montage

Nice and easy ... great bit of gear ..first job money back super fast one on it's way along with a thumb turn ..

I don't remember seeing a lock installed this way in France, they all seem to be flush.

Really cool!

Damn. That “mock” door was creative as hell.

Very cool!

Wow! That's a LOT of prep work to setup that door mechanism.

Great tool, and video, makes short work of standard euro style locks

I use the old style double ended one and that always work but that one looks cool and Multipick are great at making quality tools Great review Bill keep up the great work. :)

Bill, we are the same, always looking for an excuse to build something, ha ha. A good idea is to install a cone shaped steel protection to keep the cylinder flush. My neighbor was laughing at me when I installed it but did not find it amusing when his house was broken in. Thanks for the vid.

You are a genius..😀👍🇺🇸

Nice that you made a door for it

And to think the company I rent my apartment from ordered me to remove the snap resistant Euro lock I fitted when my tenancy became secure, not gonna lie I laughed at them and said "my insurance company refused me coverage unless it was fitted, I'm fitting other devices to get an actual discount" they tried to evict me and the court judge said I'm well within my rights to improve the security of my home.

A friend of mine here in Ireland used to work for a pvc window/door factory. He told me that he sometimes would have to break locks on houses - damaged locks, helping emergency services gaining access etc. He was a bit hesitant to tell me how they actually did it but eventually explained that they just used a pair of vice grips. Remove the trim around the lock, use the vice grips, open the door and replace the lock.......10 minutes work and away home.

Cool video. The music reminded me of" this old Tony."

I saw one of these in a local locksmith's bag the other week at work. I did wonder what it was, now I know!

Worth mentioning, that alot of euro cylinders I have come across in the uk are anti snap and have a break point before the actuator so you can just snap the lock.

Presumably it won't work against anti-snap barrels either. Thankfully the external face of mine (I'm in the UK) are recessed about 1mm so no gripping.

LPL: builds a rack for a keypad lock Bill: builds a freaking DOOR

Nice tool! My Porter Cable 513 router and a 2 x 6 would have come in handy to make the lock block in minutes. Great demonstration.

Some relatives of mine experienced first hand how effective this is.. and got their flat burglarised. Always put a protective shield.

Im in Scandinavia so naturally i have a RUKO euro cylinder. Just checked and my Euro cylinder sticks out less than a millimeter so this tool will do nothing to my door :) Also a pane of 2 layer glass for the least expensive window i own will only set me back about $50, so if i were ever locked out i would just smash that glass, make a plywood sized glass to install until i got the new window :) Oh and when you extract the tool there is actually a small indent where the tool was used.

Bills got wicked skills

Just got their plug pull toolkit. Looking forward to try that in the field. Should also work well on challenge locks :)

Hi Bill, I live in Europe. A while ago we had people from the city watch checking locks on the front doors in my street. Anyone with a lock that was not flush with the besel, got a note saying they should fix that. :) Also people with very old normal cylinders with wide keyways got a note that they should consider replacing it.

Is it weird that I'd rather win those locks to practice picking? Very cool & handy tool, but it's not something that most LockSport folks can use. Awesome build & use of the lock cam to show what is happening inside the lock!

Good video, well designed showpiece and demonstration. Great tool for the professional, I have Euro locks at my workplace (Marine environment) and have to try and drill them out when the locks fail. 👍

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At least here in Germany most cylinders are flush with the outside or recessed. And the ones, that stand out, have mostly a warding plate attached to prevent these attacks -> no practical use to open a door but I see potential as a self defense weapon

In Israel the vast majority of door locks are this style of locks, although some of the more secured ones have flush or even 'immersed' installation

Cool! Killer woodworking skills buddy!!

So, a big pair of vice-grips would do the job. Nice.

Thanks for going the extra mile by building the mockup door for your camera. Have you tried 2P10 for glueing projects? Great stuff. I don't have a dog in the race. Just a satisfied user. Fixes everything but sporting events.

Wouldn’t mind having one of those Euro locks to play with picking. Never even seen one in person.

Cylinders that protrude are usually only found on doors / side doors of insignificant buildings. Otherwise, insurance companies can deny payments. If a non-destructive opening is not possible, milling is usually done or the core is pulled

This is how the vast majority of burglaries are done in the UK. Most houses have patio doors now with these cylinders but the robbers tend not to care about your nice handle, they'll snap that off too if the lock doesn't stick out far enough.

if you can get to the screws always remove the handle it makes it a lot quicker. if they are snap proof then pull the core out with wendt core puller

In the UK there are a lot of doors with these locks - thieves already know how to snap a lock a lot of the better euro locks come with a sacrificial snap point that breaks leaving the lock centre safe and the thief cannot get into the property

UK loads of burglary happening. They don’t need no fancy tool to snap the lock. The just use a pipe wrench and it done in one or two tugs. As for the ones where the lock sits flush with the plate flat screwdriver to pry it up and few bends and it’s off and then you have near enough the whole barrel to work with. Other ways are to just drill it as it’s normally not harden steel /stainless

Hence reason, anti-snap locks are made. They will snap a bit just before, not allowing access to cam bolt.

A few months at the gym and a good quality pair of vise grips will do the job, if you really need to. Also, if you remove that plate you taped up, you get an extra 1/4 inch of grip, not all those plates are removable though, so the tape's a good idea.

Good video of lock, we take pride of automatic assembly machine of lock from Xiamen Boaote Automation Technology Co., Ltd.

In the UK the locks are not installed like that, (typically). They are flush with the handles which either need to be removed from the inside, or destructively removed. A technique that the press reported was developed in the UK by criminals is to break the screws on the bottom of the handle and peel it back to expose the cylinder. This only works on cheap handles, I replaced mine with shielded handles that prevent this attack vector after I was awoken at 2:00am by a bunch of clowns attempting this. They had successfully peeled the handles back and we're removing the core with mole grips when I interrupted them.

Thanks Bill. The theory is good, but I checked all of our doors, and the Eurolocks are all mounted flush with, or slightly concave to, the faceplates, so the tool would not be able to grip the locks. Furthermore, the weak points of the lock bodies are towards towards the inside of the protected rooms, making that leverage attack more difficult. A locksmith would have to know where the rear screws of a faceplate are located, and then drill them out to remove the faceplate, before starting work on breaking the lock. A decent pair of mole grips could then be used, instead of this tool. I've seen it done, when someone with a medical emergency needed rescuing from inside their house. I suspect that a few good blows with a mallet onto a drift would also break those particular Eurolocks more quickly than this tool would do.

Why didn't this video get monetized? Love your stuff Bill

This method has been around for ages, and most lock installations are done so this is no longer possible. Be recessing the lock slightly it's no longer possible to do this with this tool, or just pliers. The other method, also used for discdetainer locks (put a screw in it and pull) would still work, but it's harder to do afaik. The way to make sure the lock doesn't stick out is simple: order the right size. All euro cylinder locks come in different lengths for both the inside part and the outside part...

So this is your new plan for getting to the bottom of the naughty bucket? I imagine it feels really nice when you pick one out that's been in there for a few years.

Nice tool, but it can be used only for interior door with symmetric cylinder. Proper entrance door is using asymmetric cylinders which are then shielded by the door itself.

To my knowledge (at least in The Netherlands) most euro cylinders are guarded against this kind of defeat. Truth be told you are encouraged by your insurance company to invest in some "3 star" graded locks which basically means they are guarded against most brute force methods of unlocking. Also, when installed on outer doors, (basically anything that faces a "publicly accessible space" the cylinder is flush or slightly inside of the door. Nowadays the cylinder is also usually guarded against "pulling" attacks.

This will work if you are really lucky. At least at where I live. They don't stick out 4 mills. They pretty flush with a handle cover. But that gave some other ideas. Maybe you could do same with flat end screwdriver. If you push on side of a cilinder or maybe key hole at very sharp angles. You can make cilinder flex a little to. I wonder how well that would work. Humm...

Hi... being from Germany, I know this tool as "Kolbenzieher", and these tools are the reason why the cylinder should *never* be installed in a way that it offers any part - not even a millimeter or so - to be pulled upon. So if a cylinder is installed correctly, this tool cannot be used.

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Could do the same with a $20 Vice grips

Looks like it did dent that lock housing a bit on the lower left hand corner. Perhaps a piece of rubber with a hole cut into it would help prevent this if it'll still allow enough bite.

There are also cylinders with a weakened front part that breaks off but the lock does not open.

Just use vice grip to hold the lock at the narrow part and move it to left and right till the lock falls apart

There you go again, going after the weak link!

Here in the UK, burglars will break the handle to expose more of the euro lock and then use mole grips/locking pliers to do exactly the same thing. Most euro locks here are fitted flush, so even a locksmith would have little use for this tool TBH.

It works for euro cylinders with no snap protection. Criminals uses vice grips or small hand tools to do the same. It is useless on High security cylinders that are designed to defeat it. I have one for ovals too. Sometimes euro cylinders a locksmith has to deal with are completely broken and the after drilling it they need to remove it with this. It is just another tool to help get your door open.

Euro cylinders do not protrude beyond the handle if correctly fitted, the handle is attacked to allow access to the cylinder which does normally protrude from the door.

The locks are supplied in a variety of lengths. Locks when properly installed should be fitted so as to be flush with the door to prevent such tools being used. Sadly many DIY and even professional installations do not use the correct sized lock.

Uh to all the people that say "yeah useless tool, all locks are flush now", ive used the same tool 4 times today. And those with steel spines you freeze with nitrogen if the owner doesnt care for the lock, its the cheapest/easiest/fastest option. Sucks that thieves also have caught on tho.

Same as using a bolster chisel and a lump hammer, only takes 1 good blow on the top of the lock

Do they make one for the round ASSA cylinders?