Love how he puts a tension wrench to prevent damage with the lockpick, then later proceeds to TORCH IT. :)

The fact that they actually asked for feedback and made alterations on future products based on said feedback from the locksport community is highly encouraging to hear.

"Apparently I'm the guy to go to when you deal with really strange and impractical ways to open locks." yep.

Consider that you're now at a level when you're picking open a lock in under 2 minutes, you state "Quite a bit of fight out of this lock." Heheheh. Great job, man!

It’s a shame you had to destroy the lock with your logo on, hopefully they’ll send you antother😉👍👍

I forgot he's american and when he said "a couple hundred degrees" I was picturing the flames of hell itself.

Aluminum gets brittle as it heats up. In welding it is called "Hot Short" I believe Paclock simply used a standard extruded aluminum like heat treatable 6061 and machined it down. This differs from the metal in the American lock in that it was CAST, not machined. Casting aluminum is not the same as extruded aluminum (like the Paclock) It is chock full of doping agents (zinc can be one of these agents along with a host of other things). This can, not so much change the melting point (which it DOES, but not by as much as you may think), but aid the casting type aluminum in melting and freezing (changing phases) more uniformly, and so the American gave way all at once, whereas the Paclock would reach melting point at different points throughout the torching, but it's chemistry is less condusive to uniform "liquidus" and conducts heat better, being more "pure" aluminum than the casting aluminum and so made it a fantastic heat-sink. The back of the American seemed to fall out, though it is uniformly shaped. Generally, aluminum likes to be the same temperature ALL the way around and as fast as possible. Just an observation that ultimately means nothing. Here is a link to an article describing hot-shortness www.corrosionpedia.com/definition/638/hot-shortness

The highest praise LPL can give: I would use this lock

Quick note: I wouldn't classify a blowtorch as a "plumber's torch" as you did in this video. It's much more useful (and the trade standard as far as I know) to refer to them by the fuel used: propane torch (hot), MAPP gas (really hot), etc. They often use the same torch head and connectors, but the difference in fuel distinguishes their use as propane will melt solder for copper pipe; MAPP gas will also melt solder but it's too hot for small pipe. Acetylene is hot enough to cut pipe. Cheers

When your everyday real people KZfaqrs actually prompt entire companies into rethinking, researching, and ultimately improving a product for everyone... That's what's up.

"Locksport community"? I had no idea this existed, or had a name.

anything that confounds him for more than a minute, I'll buy.

"Let's take a closer look at this lock..." *immediately zooms out* Great pick as always.

At last a lock company ceo that listens to and puts into practice reviews by LPL and BB, AND reads the comments. Basically he has the smarts to save a huge amount of expensive R&D.

Hi LPL, I just wanted to chime in here. As I am actually a Plumber by trade and a Lock sport enthusiast by hobby, I should tell you that your torching technique would have been quicker had you set your flame at the correct distance from the work. The hottest part of any flame is at it's tip. I noticed you being too close and I would have recommended concentrating the flame more to the outer side of the lock body opposite of the pins. Otherwise the mention of a steel version was ideal. I made that suggestion in the comments in Bill's video review as well. Great review! Thank you!

“Let’s take a closer look” Camera zooms out

Another thing. If it were mounted on metal, heat dissipation would be greater. If on flammable material, you'd burn the house down before melting the lock.

"if you were thinking what I was thinking" no, no I wasn't even thinking

Only recently found this channel and I’m noticing something incredible. Unless I’m mistaken it seems that companies making new locks are in touch with and seek feedback from the lock picking community. That’s genuinely amazing.

Hey, we know yoi like picking locks, so made a custom lock for you! We made it your favorite color, and engraved your name on it, isn't that neat... also, we need you to destroy it.

Considering one of these to lock my bike. They're relatively affordable for the security level, and throw in a good solid self-looping security chain and we've got something that can rival solutions that cost more, but are less effective.

Suggestion: During the heat attacks, a clock in the background and perhaps accelerated footage would be great.

It's amazing how much harder these locks are to pick in thier used environment, especially when they are ridgid, butted against the locked item. Making the lock picker contort into gymnastic positions, and leave no room for grasping, and turning tools, and even for knuckles of the hands in a grasping mode, changes the security rating.

Maybe they just prototyped it in aluminum due to its relative ease of milling and will also offer a steel version too.

points for the logo - i thought it would immediately vaporize

haha I like how the company colored the lock with diecast blue (which gives off toxic fumes at high temperatures) and then they were like “here you go, by the way do you think you could melt it?” Trying to murder the LPLawyer so he can’t defeat any more of their locks, nicee that’s mad smart

Cool! I found these in a search a while back and lo and behold BosnianBill and LPL not only review them but PacLock improves them accordingly. Awesome! Yay PacLock and LPL!

"A lock I would not hesitate to use" Is there any higher praise? No there is not.

"Apparently I'm the guy to go to when you deal with really strange and impractical ways to open locks" Damn you had me rolling with that xD

Your videos have the absolute best commentary while you are picking the lock. That is the most valuable part for those of us who are trying to improve our skills. Also, your camera is in focus! Bill's videos drive me nuts with his constantly blurry close-ups. Looks like this lock is a good training lock for pickers. Thank you for another great video.

Calm and methodically laid out description, pedagogical and thorough, I like that. Only one thing worries me and that is that "wrong" people who follow you, learn very useful for them. But the rest of us learn what to observe. It's great Thanks for a very good page. Carsten Sweden

The essential difference between the liquid-melted lock body and that of this lock is that an aluminum wrought alloy was used here, as used for the production of extruded semi-finished products. Here the practically melted material at the outlet of the nozzle must have sufficient strength to hold the desired shape. A cast aluminum, on the other hand, has to melt thinly in order to fill even fine structures in a mold. So much for my knowledge of materials science from studying mechanical engineering.

What has my life become when I will gladly sit here and watch 7 minutes of silence lock melting simply amazed at the skill this man has

Pack lock Blue one can be super secure with a hardened cup cover bolted from inside door with 1 large hardened bolt. Also that anti hacksaw pin should be hardened and looose so it rolls with hacksaw blade

Glad to see a company actually putting there product through people that actually know how to pick a lock to improve the tech

Your attention to detail and the practice of routine is incredible. You know full well you're about to completely destroy the lock with a torch and make it totally unusable. But you still protect the bottom of the lock from damage dissed by the pick anyway.

It seems like a slide hammer blow or two would pop the pins that hold the shackle in place through that thin layer of aluminum.

I like the design that it can be bolted to a surface, and if made from steel and toughened as stated would be a great lock to buy if available in the UK

It's amazing how much I enjoy this. I think you cadence and tone as well as knowledge make the pace that sweet spot for information assimilation & entertainment. I'm a big time nerd, so this is my jam. I specialize in ballroom dance history, but we're cut from the same mold of wanting to endlessly learn. This might be our intellectual interface. Thank you, you are my nerdy ASMR.

Very informative from a physical sciences AND engineering perspective! Good work!

That American lock looks like it might be cast aluminum. In my experience, cast aluminum is more brittle than it’s barstock counterpart. Given that the PacLock looks milled, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was made of a pretty tough grade aluminum. I wonder tho if you could’ve gotten it open faster by heating further toward the elbow and then prying with some channel locks or vice grips to get better leverage over the needle noses. Very cool stuff +1

At last a lock company that realises that certain skilled people like LPL can save them thousands of R&D money, and have fun at the same time!

Nice review. I like your objective approach to this. I don't know if that's the right word but you and Bill both do a great job at quality info / time ratio. Thank you. Portland, ME

I don't even know what to say I am not a lock picker but I just love listening to these videos

Awesome video. I also hate to see a good lock destroyed, but I believe its ok in the matter of science and learning. This is how we all learn to improve things. I'm proud of PacLock for actually listening to the end user. Thank you for sharing this. Also, great picking LPL always a pleasure to watch you work the pins.

Why is this so entertaining. I love his soothing voice and calm speaking

the tip 9:55 onwards is the kinda shit that changes your game forever but LPL just drops casually. legend

The softly spoken lock assassin! Thorough examination as usual. Love this stuff.

I'm absolutely hooked on the channel, LPL is amazing, the skill and knowledge he has is freaking great. I don't even have anything padlocked, but I now know if I do there's plenty I don't buy!

I definitely support this lock, this took a long time for him to pick and hes usually able to get it in like 30 sec-1 min

Great job by PACLOCK. I'm definitely looking for their locks next time I need one for myself

Being made out of aluminum my biggest concern out of those you addressed would be a prying attack. Using a pry bar and leveraging off of the hasp or chain and prying the top you would think it would bend or outright break quite easily. There isn't much material on the bottom of those steel pins that hold the shackle, and even with a thick steel pin inserted into the "neck" of the lock it should still bend quite easily. The sharp corners inside the mouth could also be a weak point. Having them rounded would increase strength.

Good video! Would be interested to see a picking attempt with the lock bolted to a door in real life application.

I totally agree with the steel lock body. Even though PacLock installed steel rods in the new design, aluminum is very soft and can be manipulated. A steel lock body would be more expensive but that point is moot if you are securing something valuable. Great video!!

you are able to talk very clearly and it seems like you think about every word that comes out of your mouth before you say it. which makes you very easy to under stand.very well spoken and the best locker picker iv'e ever seen.its crazy how easly you bypass some of those, incredable

interesting and very informative as always

I suppose, if you were bolting it to a surface, you could include a 2-3 mm plate of very hardened steel on the outside face to gain a lot of protection with only a little material.

I’ve been a “machinist/toolmaker/ mold maker” for well over a decade. I have extensive experience with a multitude of materials. When I hear “it made of steel!”... many questions come to mind. To me steel is butter. What kind of steel? What’s the Rockwell? Yield strength? Why are we still using steel for locks? Is it a cost issue?

Great video brother. I agree with your observations, this lock definitely dispersed the heat better than the 1100 preventing it from getting hot enough to melt aluminum under those pins in the same way as the other lock. Thanks for the review!

I love that lock you melted, it looks perfectly fine from the front and when you turn it not so much lol

The craziest thing for me is how a team of dedicated professionals will do their best, yet time and time again, heros, the likes of LPL and Bosnian Bill will just put them to shame... thanks so much for the content. It's super interesting, got me into lockpicking, and its performing an invaluable service the lockpicking community as a whole. You guys rock!

Another painful but useful procedure. I guess all cars complete crash tests with dummies...maybe LPL was that dummy! Hehe.😜Kidding of course.😊 Some good points raised and a thorough review as usual. The body fared much better than I thought it would, maybe because it has magnesium & silicon in it and it is weldable, otherwise the welding process would destroy itself, so a good trait to have to slow down torch attacks also.🍺✌

Hey there @LockPickingLawyer , awesome video! It was entertaining and I enjoy how you describe as you go. That is very helpful to me, as an in-training locksmith, to watch your hands work, where you're at within the pick and the action happening. I think you're great at what you do and your videos are awesome. I'm pretty familiar in the destructive opening techniques and have background on construction, structures and support and if I may just share my opinion. If the idea of the video was more for presentation during the destruction, then the already unlikely of ability to destroy this lock in this manner, then that's no problem. I guess what I mean is that in order to properly make an attempt such as this or similar "attack openings" would be to do in in real world situations. My example would be like if you were really trying to get whatever this lock was supposed to be protecting, perhaps the time it would realistically take to get into any lock, just out in the world, plus the determination and tools of the potential thief. By about 2.5 minutes into the demonstration, I think that the red-hot steel could possibly have been pried and essentially reshaped it's locking ability into the block of also steel pins, it could have popped, potentially. Personally, having the mostly common knowledge of hottest burning portable torch and gas setups, I think the yellow map gas can, from an above angle and the position of the torches flame, I think the lock might have opened in a fraction of the time. Of course I'm not intending to insult your work, but coming from my knowledge and background, desperation can make any lock openable. I think that if the company of the lock was relatively confident in its core's ability to seem the biggest hassle, they should look to have a real-world torture test done, perhaps also as a review. With that said, I really enjoy your work and I hope that we continue to improve our ability to protect ourselves and thanks to people like you and @Bosnianbill ,we might just get there one day. Thank you!

I’m impressed with how long this lock took to even soften to the point where LPL was able to bend the metal back.

When he’s picking it reminds me of my dentist checking my gum line ...

Nice vid LPL. A few observations: Firstly, don't believe you're not concentrating the hottest part of the flame on the target area. The end is usually hottest. You appear to be playing the flame primarily onto the steel shackle because it was clearly heating up first. Not sure that's the best ploy here. The steel shackle was obviously going to dissipate the heat from whichever area you concentrated the flame upon. But I'm not convinced heating it up first advanced your attack in any useful way. The target however was the pins. Therefore I would have directed the hotter END of the flame at each side of the bar containing the pins, swapping over once one side had melted. And I believe it would had you done so. I might even shield the shackle to direct more heat onto the aluminium. Yep, I'm a Brit aircraft engineer. Otherwise, this is an inspiring vid. I'm currently working on a motorcycle security lock design, so yours and Bill's work is very very valuable. Thank you. Aluminium seems on the face of it to be a shit material for a lock. But this one proves we shouldn't fully rule it out. And where weight is an issue (as in a bike scenario), it's well worth considering, but only if the inherent vulnerabilities of the materisl's characteristics can be overcome. I'm working on this, though every viable solution turns out to be very expensive. PSWas the American lock thinner cast aluminum? That might also explain why it melted more easily.

I only just noticed what your logo is, and I love the symbolism.

I love that not only is your favourite colour blue (obvs the best colour), but you have a favourite shade too! 💙

close your eyes and listen to his voice: the holographic doctor from Star Trek is teaching you how to pick locks. you can't unhear it.

Would love to see how this aluminum lock would handle an encounter with gallium. Should be able to sand the anodizing off, put a good dollop of gallium on - wait a couple of days for it to “soak in”, then just tear the aluminum apart almost with your fingers.

The white hot from the steel while no light from the aluminum is confirmation of what you were saying about temperatures. That aluminum is wicking that heat away phenomenally.

the speed of your picking is just so unreal...I hope to get there one day! #inspiration

I love the way LPL and other members of the locksport community interact with these companies to try to produce the most efficient locks possible. It's really cool seeing the companies humbly take their advice

Here is my thought on another low tech defeat: The outboard retaining pin is a weak spot. I noticed that as you removed the weakened tip, that the top of the lock body has hollow spaces in it. If the aluminum has not been annealed and is brittle, you might try skipping part one and go straight to part two without any cutting needed. If so, a big plus is that part two is soundless except for the final snap Part one: Using a hack/sabre/ jewellers saw or dremel make a 1mm cut between the shackle and the outboard pin on three sides (4 sides if you can)- Tip: I would try using a jewellers saw first, threading it in behind the affixed side if possible and just garrotte in a 1mm deep cut. If time is not pressing, the jewellers saw could just cut off the whole tip. Part two, if needed, using a makeshift screw-jack: If you can not get through on four sides, take a piece of hardened screw rod the length of the shackle gap and put two deep nuts threaded on to that rod. Knurl a pattern into the outward faces of two heavy flat washers to give them bite into the aluminum and place them outwards of the nuts. Place the rod, nuts, and washers inside the gap just outside of the cuts made and force the nuts away from each other with two opposing ratcheted box wrenches. This pressure should cause the cut points to expand, shear, and the top of the body tear open at the retaining pin. You might need a second, slightly longer screw piece if the aluminium bends to much before reaching the breaking point I think that a second steel pin (or plate/wafer) should be inserted the entire width of the lock (as was done down the side in model 2) above the two retaining pins, if there is enough metal above the top of the shackle's tip to prevent my defeat. I would also not mill out any unnecessary voids in the top of the lock body.

What a clever way to implement customer feedback and gain priceless marketing all for the cost of a single lock. Much smarter than companies pouring untold amounts into KZfaq ads that I always skip, and I suspect most people do too. I will look to PacLock for my next lock.

binge watching your videos today ✌😁 about to try and pick every lock i can find in my house lol

"I'm going to melt it. Here's how to keep it pristine while picking, before I do that."

"So uh, we sent you a blue lock, right?" "Yes" "Why did we receive a brown and broken one now?" "..." "Well?" "This is The Lock Picking Lawyer..."

I love how you also consider economics of the design.

I like how you put the tension wrench to avoid making a dent on the padlock........before you torch it !!! :D

A 26 minute lpl video. This has to be good.

Totally missed the opportunity to turn the melting vid into an old-timey silent movie.

Hello LPL, I really enjoy watching your videos but I would like to offer a couple of suggestions on this one, 1) an oxyacetylene torch would probably cut though the top of this lock in a few seconds, a plummer's torch by comparison is quite a mild heat, 2) as the lock is laid down in the vice a proportion of the heat is being transferred into the vice too quickly, my suggestion is to stand the lock up so only the bottom bit is located in the vice and therefore the heat has further to travel to the vice thereby keeping more of the heat at the top of the lock.

My compliments to the designers, they knew that that had some good ideas, they avoided reinventing the wheel and decided to bring in other recognised experts in to get their opinions. I very much respect their attitude.

Imagine he gets arrested and while he's in the car all the cops just hear "a nice click out of 1, click on 2..." and he rips off the handcuffs

19:23 LPL: And this isn't a lock that I would not hesitate to use. So, you _would_ hesitate to use it? 🤣

Wow! After seeing you just blast straight through so many locks, it's really impressive you had to actually pick this one, and go back and forth a few times at that! A real test of skill, and a signifier of how pick-resistant it would actually be to a petty thief with only a wave rake or jiggler! Definitely means that your storage shed would be left alone in favor of the neighbor's with a master lock 😂

The cast iron vice ended up being a Heat Sink and sucked away all the heat from the alloy padlock. I have found through experience that It’s a good technique to use when welding cast iron as it keeps the welding area cooler when you can draw the heat away like this.. Great video.

what about applying tension on the top part of the lock while heating it up to brute force it open? that technique could drastically cut down on the amount of time needed to force it open...

"so let's take a look at this lock" *zooms out*

All you need is a gram or two of gallium and some patience, no lockpicking skills required! Also @13:24, you have *very* nice drawer slides.... That sound makes me melt

I love to see that in each and every video of LPL's, the comment section is always so positive. Keep doin your thing sir.

Does having it firmly in the vice just turn the vice into a huge heatsink for the lock? Saw a diff video where you hung a lock and melted the alum body and zinc innards.

You say it's Aluminum? Would it be susceptible to a Gallium attack?

When you said "Aluminum" I wrote the lock off. However, the "heat sink" and heat dissipation impressed me. Seven min is a good time. The security pins are good. Thanks for the analysis. Hope you get another one with your logo. While not an endorsement, your video changed my mind.

I thought I saw that lock design, then you mentioned Bill taking a backsaw to it, then the dots were connecting. Anyway it would be harder to pick if you have it adhered to the door is something.

Building on another comment, I think they could offer higher security variant by simply mounting armor plates to the lock body utilizing those four mounting holes.

PacLock Block lock Smokin' on cookie in the hotbox

Wow awesome lock for just you. That is really cool.

Awesome video. I agree with your suggestion that the size of the lock helped dissipate the heat, I would suggest that the massive shackle (not to mention the lock body itself) would further have an impact there since I believe that both brass and steel are more conductive than aluminium so you would have had to get them both near to the melting point of the body before it would start to melt