Your channel is a hidden gem! I'll be coming back to watch more.

Will most definitely be visiting this channel with every new video.

This channel is great! I was a locksmith and this is very practical knowledge.

An excellent tutorial, thanks for sharing this information, cheers

Really digging your style.. Definitely subscribing. Love the locksports community.

Great review, cool key cutter

Great tip, thanks for sharing.

You'd mentioned when using the decoding block in the video , that you can also use calipers to get the bit coding but never explained or showed how. Could you either quickly explain that process or make another video showing how ? Would you use IN, MM , or IN/ Fractions setting when using Calipers to get the proper bit coding off your impressions tool ? I would imagine you'd use MM while using the Upper inside Jaw...

Very nice job my friend.

Really cool video my friend. 👍

loved the vid, if i didnt have the lock to test the keys on the spot then i definitely would cut 2 keys (as i have done when cutting other keys by code) otherwise id try first the lower cut key and if that didnt work id recut it to the next depth

Thank you for actually spp a tubular lock

Channel came up while looking for a Traveller's Tool.. First off AWESOME content .. Second, are you truly a Civil Engineer or is it just a moniker.. In my experience, unless you have a relationship with a locksmith when you walk into a shop with a bidding for a key and ask for it to be cut, they will give you a funny look and not cut the key... I do love how this is a low budget method as opposed to just go buy the Southord Tubular Lock impression tools .. Great Vid, love the content ..Keep it up

I encountered the same problem you did. Tried everyway=nothing. The pins WERE moving but I wasn't setting shit, lol. Tried using the Impressioner after picking halfway past 1st set= still didn't work. I plan on trying more later. You can get free Tub locks off elevator doors to practice. Most will have a lock installed where the dropkey goes and can be opened with a tubular key(not sure if these are universal or mine were just the same per institution). Also, since I've never heard you or Dev talk about it- Elevator Boxes are great to acquire shit from. Mech Eng's are logical people so not only will it contain the El's Tubular keys and flat operator keys but they'll usually chuck in a couple of door keys for doors that are nearby or relevant so they don't have to carry them around when they need to access it.

Could you pick the lock and just impression it with a heated ballpoint pen sleeve and use that to open the lock after the initial picking?

I got an under the door tool, its a old bumperJack with long pieces of steel welded on the lifter. It demolishes any door frame. Or jack up any door enough to bust through. Got idea off of old Cops show🤷🏼

The lock you mentioned at around 3:25....would that be a Bewator/Siemens keypad by any chance? I hate those things.

Great video and technic. /thank you very much.

The problem for me is that I have a Harbor Freight US General toolbox that I have the key for and I can't open the lock. Keep in mind that this lock has been locked and unlocked less than a dozen times. I moved the toolbox from the house to the garage. It was locked to move and now I can't unlock it since it has been moved. Harbor Freight couldn't care less. They have my money and now they don't know me. I am not a mechanic by trade and only need the tools occasionally but when I need them I really need them. I bought one of those lock pick kits like you showed at the beginning but it either doesn't work or I don't know what I am doing, probably the latter. Any suggestions? Can I drill it out and replace it with a lock that wasn't made by Fisher-Price? If I do drill it out, will I be able to open the box?

The sparrow is nice, but i cut my own woth a long handle i can palm, and cross with my finger... really helps feel the pins, which dont give goodfeedback prying on the cylinder outside. I remember picking my first laundry machine with a hairpin and a homemade v tensioner. Man did that feel good.

Where’d you get the lock decoder from? Can’t find it on amazon

thanks saved me some laundry money

Where did you get the depth gauge from??

I can know what is this key duplication tool? where can I buy one?

How would you recommend removing a wrong key from one of these tubular locks. Asking for a friend.

I always keep dry graphite lube with me to make picking alot easier

What the name of that key cutting tool and is it expensive??

I found your old video. I still say there are many circumstances where you secondary technique wouldn't work. I engineered a lock box with a push-lock, ACE cylinder on my E-bike. The frame prevents the insertion of a Sparrows type tensioner. We tend to get overconfident in the shop, but real world is often quite different. And by the way, my impression tool wouldn't pick my lock either, so I agree with your original premise.

Where did you get vice?

I ordered 7 pin tublar set however It finally came in however I'm disappointed only 1 came no instructions no tools so I got the 1 with the purple collar hope it unlocks my box or I'll have to go to plan b thanks man I'll watch video subscribe allset like always

Haven't heard of people using bands on those tools. What's that do?

Do you recommend anyone to decode a tubular lock I have? I bought a toolbox from my old highschool teacher a while back. Forgot to ask about keys so I can lock it. Tried replacing them but couldn’t find the style that would relatively work in its place. I can pay for services and shipping.

too bad those hertygerty a1 cutters are no longer being sold but seems there are a few decent versions of chinese tubular key cutters out on the market that you could use instead.

Youre left handed... does that make picking harder? Like playing a left handed guitar?

where buy the tool to copy?

Coulden't you simply cut the most shallow value first, try it and if it failed, recut it to the deeper value?

You said you could measure the code with calipers.... how much is the measurement of each digit?

Is their one for 8 pins

My lock did not have a letter by it but it said 1017, so what one do I get ? Thank you

I have an old coin op vending machine it came without a key.... I need this service asap 😪

Were do were do I send my lock too¿?

Tubular locks are so low security if thieves were smart they would use tubular picks on alot of vending machines. Plenty of vending machines have no cameras around them

If your goal is to attack the lock, and not to duplicate a key, once you pick it open, couldnt you impression the correct bitting with the cylinder lock tool, and then just continue to turn that like a key?

I bought the Chinese tubular pick set for a harbor freight safe and I have no luck, any tips?

Germany vending machine tigarete?

Well now I know why one of my friends growing up wouldn't allow LEGOS on the property... LMFAO hee dad was a Locksmith. And that blue piece of equipment looks like a LEGO. 🤣🤣🤣

If you want to grow subs more you should make lots of comments on other people's videos. I have found several channels by clicking on a good comment

Bro where did you get that decoding block? Looks like Lego 😂😂

Did anyone else think the reader looked like blue Lego?

You may as well just buy the requisite key on ebay.

A cleaver person would use the picking tool to get an impression of a working lock they would like to pick. Then get a key cut for it😂

The lock which required 9 full rotations you say you picked 42 times with a 7 pin lock, that means there was only 4.6 pins if you picked it 42 times to get 9 full rotations. That’s 42/9=4.6 9x7 would be 63. Or am I missing something? I’m quite new to lockpicking.

The lock picking lawyer says you can manually pick these locks by not going around more than twice, you say different, you are tensioning the lock clockwise and the lawyer anti clock wise, just don't get it, thanks for your video and want to see more, Colin from Surrey uk

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You’ve got some hairy hands there boi