[1591] The Replicant: Pocket Key Casting Perfected!

That was my first thought as well

"No that's release agent on my nose actually"

I had to check it wasn't an April 1st video 😂

Considering what the kit actually does I think we'd be better off with the confusion. LOL

You beat me to it lol

LPL is trying to get people arrested so they need his other services.

understandable have a nice day

Not burglary kit. Key replication kit. What you use your new key for, or if you use it at all, is another question.

No officer, that's baby powder. I promise

"You will be violently kidnapped and locked in a cage for possession of a device I don't understand"

I work with a group that owns an old church - there's an antique key for the front door. Now I can make another!

@@mail4billgo check into full fledge casting. You’ll be able to use hotter and stronger steel for a long lasting key. That is a very soft metal and would likely break on anything that’s not a very smooth operating lock.

Parker approves.

@@zachlindsey3715 Yep. This product is for a more or less disposable 1 use key. You get a hold of the legitimate key for a few seconds to make the cast then use the cast key to slip in.

​@@nobodyimportant2470 agreed. This is like a 3d printed gun you can only use once.

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Was it a off duty police officer? lol.

Donut shop? Did he have his "baby powder" in an evidence bag he collected on duty?

😂😂😂😂 amazing

"it's not drugs, it's a tool to quickly clone keys"

It's 2024, no police will do anything to you

​@@pittuk6500are you sheltered?

@@pittuk6500 can i come to your planet ... please ?

Depending on you plan to use it that could be a feature.

It is baby powder man cmon

"This is the DrugUsingLawyer, and today I'm going to do some crack cocaine."

Ehem, you mean “””ingots”””

Adding the baking soda means 25 years minimum.

I'd be more interested into how to make meth into a decent decongestant.

You should start a KZhead channel

The Wood's metal is essential. Its melting point is 158 degrees Fahrenheit. If he had to melt any other metal, it would be much more difficult.

I bet you don't use an alloy that melts at 70C.

@moroteseoinage There are lots of metal casting, moulding, and patternmaking videos out there. I don't think I would greatly contribute. I'd just increase the number.

@@erintyres3609 Wood's is indeed the bomb. It has saved my butt on more that one occasion where I stripped something out and needed to get it working just long enough to get it properly fixed. Everybody should have some in their toolbox.

3 if you count the lighter.

@@dansherman1980 what’s the second???

Baby powder.

"Well, we're gonna sit right here until you inject every bit of that, Mister. That's what your grandpa did to me when he caught me smoking and I never smoked again"

@@Nightenstaff Well, at least you'll never cook this up again if you had to inject it...

That scene from family guy, with the cookie monster in the bathroom stall gets me everytime...

Was that the cross dressing kid?

@@bmw328igearhead "come on come on! Whaatt!"

Except for how to make it look a little less like you're cooking crack!

I feel like it kinda missed the mark. You can't "quickly" get an impression of a key, without completely disassembling the kit. I feel like a "Covert" kit would have quick and easy access to the impression clay and press, without needing to disassemble all of it. The rest of the kit would be best separate from the impression insert, so you can covertly get the impression, then retreat to your kit to make the copy.

@@xmikemurphyx just walk around with the puddy part pre rolled and you can do the rest at home. It really would only take a few seconds.

I expect to see these things showing up in movies in five years or so.

@@xmikemurphyx Define "quickly" to you. Doesn't mean it's the same for everyone. If you were trying to make a key like this, you'd be prepared to do so -- if you wanted it "quickly". Otherwise, it's a few minutes.

Jenuenly interested - what point you want to teach by this video?

@@ViktorRzh LPL answered my "Why so many threads?" question less than a minute from when it popped into my head. It's a design decision that seems to make the UX worse, but was actually done to solve a problem testing identified.

@@ViktorRzh my instruction is focused to provide guidance to students exploring career paths in digital technology. I present a learning chunk/module to introduce concepts and strategies of design for accessibility (think wcag... ) and another for physical design with ergonomics in mind... but in the end it all comes down to validation through testing - and LPL did a fine job of expressing the user-development testing phase.

@@wayne00k chatgpt, write a short mocking poem regarding incompetence original promt and autors of given promt. P.S. 3.5? Really? I can detect this style while being half asleeep.

@@ViktorRzh I have no idea what you are intending to express

Is the best source of asbestos I know of off hand.

Coca powder will make the key stronger and more confident.

Here officer just take a sniff and you'll know right quick what it is, trust me bro.

😂

@@WinterInTheForest its a hell of a release agent.

You can put those handcuffs on me, but you can never keep me locked up

And a heroine who had that kit wouldn't stay stashed for long!

It's not a hero stash either.

AKA "possession of burglary tools". if you're not a licensed locksmith or on your own property.

That answer will get you arrested regardless. Drugs? Breaking and Entering? Yep - cuffs inbound

the housing, spoon, lighter, and clay are each under $1. With a 3D printer, I have everything I need lying around... except the ingots. The low-melting-point metal can be obtained online for under $10 (or much less if you are hard-core DIY) After taxes, delivery, and currency conversion the kit is $150. I'm ordering some ingots...

Many tenants would have broken them off in locks, despite warnings that they are much weaker than normal keys. Then you'd have a much bigger issue on your hands,

my apartment complex removed the key deadbolt locks,replaced them with Doormakaba electronic deadbolt locks. you use a RFID tag as a key,or an app on your smartphone,Bluetooth. the lock connects to the office via your WiFi,so they can lock you out any time they want,they log or track entries,i'm not sure if that's just the phone app or both. the maintenance guys have the app on their company phones. On Jan 1,I got locked out because the batteries died,they reached the end of their 2 year life. But at least it can't be picked or bump-keyed.

@@JayWye52 Locks making use of RFID readers tend to have their own weaknesses and LPL has shown a few of them in videos over the years, though of course it depends on the particular lock as to which ones if any are applicable. Many electronic locks in general are vulnerable to magnets however so that'd be a place most criminals looking to break into one would probably start. That said, they do have the benefit of keeping out more "traditional" crooks, simply because most wouldn't bother looking up info on a specific lock to find its weaknesses, so if they were going for a non-destructive approach, there's a chance they'd just look elsewhere. Of course, most criminals just go the destructive route anyhow, since it's easier and they care more about speed than anything else.

You could just have a key machine. Faster and makes better keys

​​@@JayWye52I would change the lock

Dude. Chef's kiss.

Bond..

I heard Bond...James Bond...

I instantly thought of mission impossible too!!

Take those ear buds out. They're easy to forget.

Whooosh

Only if you've already separated the impression part from the rest of the kit, which requires entire disassembly. It's packed well for travel, but not for covert key copying.

​@@xmikemurphyxyou think you would ever be copying a key with zero premeditation? If you're trying to get the impression the only thing you need in your pocket is the clamshell with the clay in it already. It's smaller, nobody would notice it and you get your mold done in 2s if you have reasonable grip strength. Why would you even consider taking the kit apart and putting back together 3 times part of that task

What is a non-criminal reason why anyone needs to copy a key they only have access to for a few seconds? This channel talks about "locksport," locks as puzzles, and about security/evaluating locks, and some of what LPL sells could conceivably be used that way. But I'm curious if anyone can think of a scenario where this kit is useful for something non-felonious.

It's useful for Red Team physical penetration testing of secure facilities. Like what DeviantOllam is engaged in legally. Or if you really need to give a copy of a key to someone in an emergency and you have neither a spare nor the time to go to a locksmith.

Didn't know LPL was into drugs. TIL.

designed to make money out of common basic materials in cute kids toy form factor.

Maybe a mask for the lead and cadmium fumes. Or at least a warning label. Not trying to be mean, just not a fan of heavy metals.

No

​@@mcblaggart8565 Going by Occam's Razor, it's probably just lead-free pewter.

​​@@mcblaggart8565 It's only just managing to reach melting point, it'll require a lot more energy to reach boiling point (1700°C) and release significant amounts of vapour. A mini lighter is going to run out of fuel well before then (and probably burn your fingers). Sure, it'll emit *some* before then, but you'll breathe worse just crossing the road.

@@mcblaggart8565 Pretty sure there are plenty warnings about fumes in the instructions :P Immediately found it reading their shop page at least. Aand checked their instruction manual, there's a red warning text about it in the point where you start melting the metal.

exactly!!

It looks like Galium. Your body temperature can melt this, so don't put it in your pocket.

@@DeanWhiteUrbanPrintzSunderland Not quite. Wood's Metal melts at 156F. *Close* to body temperature, in the context of metal melting points, but you won't have to worry about it melting in your hand like Gallium will.

Never use this duplicate key on the door because it is very fragile and will not bear the load and will break inside the lock.

@@coredumperror Wood's Metal is toxic isn't it? I'm sure it has Cadmium in it (as well as lead). But yes, it is a stronger and has a higher melt point.

While impressioning is a very effective attack when it's applicable, it's not the sort of thing the average person needs to worry about. It's an attack that's mostly used to get extended access to an area the attacker already has some limited access to in the first place. It's much more of a problem for corporate espionage than it is for securing your motorcycle, or whatever.

​@@faithgrinsHehe...so there's this currently fomenting revolution...

@@faithgrins It's one of the reasons why it's a terrible idea to give your keys to a vallet parking service. Most people have the car key on the same keychain they use for their house key.

@@MyRegardsToTheDodo Lookit Mr. Moneybags here with a house and a car. =P

@@faithgrins I bet fancy pants here even got himself a car hole too.

would love to see a picture, sounds cool as hell. would the kit have a serial number?

Video or picture please... if you don't have access to one draw it up please :)

@@nathanmiller9381 unlikely, most of the SOE stuff wasn't even branded by the manufacturer (e.g. the Wellrod-pistol was made by BSA, but had no markings) ... very cool stuff though.

>woods metal If you are going to name a metal after a person "Woods" is a terrible fucking name

@@wwickeddogg Hugh Weddell missed his cue ...

it was the 4/20 video of course

It took you 4 minutes to grab a snack and a soda? How big is your house?

@@Throckmorton.Scribblemonger 8600 sq ft. excluding the bonus room in the attic.. lol joking i live in an apartment. lol I have ADHD tho Notice i said it began while i was out of the room. What i was watching wasn't very good so i was not in a rush and just left it playing, I got side tracked before finally getting the snack and returning. adding to my confusion was the fact i did not even know this video was next. I knew that voice was the LPL but what my mind was thinking was on the screen certainly was not. lol

I don't think caster is a profession.

@@jayme3181 Well, 3 and a half years of training down the drain I guess.

@@jayme3181 Mould maker (aka pattern maker) is a profession too. Back when the automotive industry was in its infancy the race to cast single-piece V8 blocks, with acceptable yields, was all the rage. Casting a block with that many water and oil passages, that weren't vertical, was a major challenge. What was learned from this, once they succeeded, led to so many advances in other consumer goods that it's hard to imagine today. Trivial as it sounds, the perfecting art of pouring molten metal into tamped sand has been as instrumental to the technological revolution as the precision lathe and the micrometer.

@@andersjjensen Hi Anders, thanks for sharing this interesting story. I was not saying caster was not a job which required talent or one in which you could not become extremely skilled - but that to me, 'profession' is associated with a job in which you 'profess'. I.e. that the thing you are selling is your knowledge or opinion, such as a lawyer or teacher. Nowadays people claim to be a professional anything (footballer for example) but to me these are jobs - not anything to be ashamed of, of course. A master craftsman has rare and refined talent. But it's not a profession or vocation, these words had meanings which still apply for me at least 😀

This guys is an actual wizard

Link?

​@cenycal if they mean the one from 7 months ago, search "Adam Savage lock" and it should be one of the first videos. I don't like posting links.

He was also mentioned on today's LTT video

@@alexdavis9324 Who still watches LTT? lmao

@@dudebroguymate Seriously. I had stopped watching them regularly a while ago, but I unsubbed and haven't watched a single video after they did a shit review and then sold the prototype without permission for that specialty GPU cooler. Proved conclusively that they don't care about actual technical accuracy and only go for memes.

Field's metal has no lead or cadmium, a slightly lower melting point, and a significantly higher price tag because it's main constituent is indium. The jury is still out on breathing indium vapor, though.

I have a few hundred pounds of something I was told is woods metal. It was used to make moulds for taking x rays. I should take a chunk to a scrapyard and see if they have one of those laser guns that can tell me exactly what it's made from.

​@quokka_11 have you ever bendaloy or cerrobend?

@@Swishersweetcigarilo Cerrobend™and Bendalloy™ are brand names, they are Wood's metal. It is used for making custom shaped apertures in radiation treatment, maybe that's what they meant when they said x-rays. Any markings on the metal or the container it's in?

@@quokka_11 no markings. My neighbor scrapped a hospital after it closed down. Lots of different shaped chunks with a little bit of Styrofoam beads stuck to the surface. He melted a fair amount into hockey pucks. I think he said he wanted to cast them into bullets for an antique rifle before he realized it wasn't lead and was a lot more valuable. He kept it around for a rainy day fund but I would think that it would be hard to find a buyer for so much on the secondary market.

You mold your own square with the sculpey

Just save one cube, and use it to mold the replacements

That is exactly what I was thinking. But you can make a square mold by pushing a square Cube into the clay.

or you can use critical thinking skills lol

the "spoon" could be cube shaped

The only difference is that Q Branch would issue 007 with hyperspecial Unobtanium ingots that cost a significant fraction of the cost of a torpedo boat that melt flawlessly in ten seconds, stay flawlessly molten for fifteen seconds after heat is removed, and harden to approximately the strength of rolled homogenous armor plate in another ten.

LPL did a video on something that does pretty much exactly what you're describing, with a camera inserted into a keyhole. It's video 1209 on his channel

It would be straightforward to do that with a picture of the key; visual examination of the inside of a lock sounds harder to automate. But LPL did have a video where he showed a camera that would go inside a keyway.

I think that the original Tom Swift books came out in the early 60’s. Very much ahead of their time as I recall.

There are puns called Tom Swifties named after the book series. The author didn't like using the phrase "said Tom", so he used other words e. g. "remarked Tom"

​@@taimurkhalil"I love hot dogs," Tom said frankly.

Technically he did use the key

Technically... it's now proven, that key is the slowest method to open locks, even with that high tech kit.

@@McNeo2 Yup but you don't have to have LPL's mad skillz to deal with the bumps, pins, etc.

Almost? 😋

@@lockpickinglawyer It takes ever so slightly less skill to open. It doesn't require any tools to open. 😛

@@the_matad0r342 Neither do half of Masterlocks.

@@the_matad0r342 **Laughs in McNally's video(s) of smacking Master locks open** 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@the_matad0r342 So... like a Masterlock combination lock?

Fighting your inner demon?

contains lead so by the third key you may forget how to turn one

cast in a well ventilated area!

A safer but more expensive alternative would be Field's Metal.

Or simply hold your breath for 30 seconds....

They should consider using Rose's Metal. Both Wood's Metal and Rose's Metal contain lead, but Rose's Metal contains NO cadmium which is the much more hazardous metal. Rose's metal melts at 205°F instead of 158°F, but that should still be pretty easy using a butane lighter. They're about the same price and Rose's Metal, while not that strong, is a fair bit stronger than Wood's Mental so the keys would last a little longer.

What metal or alloy did you use for casting? And did you use a standard lighter, or something else?

Also curious of this ​@@TheKarlslok

He didn’t make a second key, how do we know if the first one was a fluke?

9 minute ad

You can tell it wasn't about a master lock from the length

I would love for this... silly replacement keys costing $80+

Look for Flipper Zero. I think that's what you were thinking of. 🙂

You don't even need a Pi, something the size of Flipper Zero can do that already.

Imagine playing Doom on it while waiting for the key to cool.

@@thorjohnson5237 These keys are not made of hard metals. They will not last through repeated use.

It's also got lead in it, so wash your hands if you've removed the flashing after casting.

R.I.P. LPL

Key smoke! Don't breathe it!

If you're producing vapor you've got it waaay too hot

Copy a key and get cancer. Sounds wonderful!

Victorinox and Leatherman would probably disagree, but still impressive.

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🧐 That's nothing! Now my ex wife. . . 🤔 I'm going to shut up now. 😶‍🌫️

The Chinese shipping people are very, very good to pack things tightly. When our factory first started to get deliveries from our Chinese company, a whole shipment 20-foot container was packed very tightly, BUT they mixed everything, so to fit in as tightly as possible, it took our receiving dept 2 whole days to sort the shipment out. A couple of more was on the way. But we stopped this asap. After that, we've had less density in the containers, but they were offloaded in minutes instead of days.

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I mean, key impressioning has been around for decades. This isn't new technology.

@@freighter1097 yeah. But this you can do in the span of like a bathroom break

​@@pretentiousname01Oh shoot, I left something inside, can I borrow your keys real quick?

They can also take a photo of your key and have an exact copy cut from that. There's apps that show you the cut depths on nearly all key types.

@@pretentiousname01 Faster than that. Once you make the impression you can hand the key back and do the casting later.

Why mention the voltage of your dorm laundry room?

​@@buildaboiworkshop must be for shock effect

@@buildaboiworkshop I mention the voltage because that's what my homemade kiln required.

as a kid I used to melt lead wheelweights on the kitchen gas stove,then cast little lead ingots. I put a wet miscast ingot back into my little lead pot,and it exploded lead over the burner,clogging it. the end of that hobby. Luckily,I was not harmed. Lesson learned.

what type of metal is in the kit? i want to try casting little art objects

Who cares about the price, this kit will earn you a lot of money just after first use 😀😀

Lead fumes are not a thing at these low temperatures (

Yeah, I mean the shop is literally called covert instruments. I already got strange wibes from one his multi lock picking tools that gets into cars as well. The wording in the video as well.. “only having access to the original (key) for a few seconds”

Even if you think that this is targeted just to thieves, then it still serves a purpose to show how easy making a copy can be. Just think that someone can make a copy of your key and enter in quick, quiet manner - enter in a way that would not draw suspicion in broad daylight. This is still a lesson.

@@tarps2 Why did you get strange vibes from a tool for getting into cars? It takes less than a second to break through a car window, and thieves do it in broad daylight (called "bipping" now, I believe). If a thief goes out of their way to acquire special tools and skills to steal from cars without damaging them, that's honestly preferable.

Don’t admit a premeditated crime on the internet. Even if it is a joke if you ever get investigated this comment could come back to bite you. Just delete this comment as your not legal advice lawyer.

don't forget to rate it 5 stars. good luck with the thing

you are in the rabbit hole! Welcome aboard!

I'm resisting....... we'll see how long that lasts! this is sooooo James Bond I don't know how long I'll be able to hold out

I’m right there with you I got the email watched the instructional video and ordered one I couldn’t help myself also didn’t help it was pay day

yeh, between this and the book locknoob showed today I'm dead, I got double-dragon'd lol

@@Suiseisexy yeah I may have to get that book as well

He casts keys, not spells

@@mk_rexx _golf clap_ edit: I originally made that bold instead of italics and my brain immediately went "omg you can't use that tone at the club".. what is wrong with me?

TBH. this is among the least impressive (and most accessible) of trick seen on this channel. All you need is low temperature alloy used for "melt out core mandrels" making hollow carbon fiber object (where dimensions of internal void matter). And some "moon sand" or similar silicone based play doo for making the mold.

The rest of the stuff made has other uses for locksmiths/fun. This is literally just for crime.

The guy is a lawyer. He wants customers.

Red team testing is a thing, so it's *technically* possible to use this legally. Man, I really need to re-watch Sneakers (1992).

bringing breaching tools to mass market doesnt help red teams.

@@_yreg eh, I don't see how you can protect against key duplication without fundamentally changing the definition of "key", so I don't really see what the problem is

Can't do much with modern car besides open the door and set the alarm off. The car won't start, but you could steal stuff later without breaking a window.

​@@volvo09or just wait until a no electronic classic car come to you. Jag E-Type, old 911, even a Testarossa...

@@fernandoguzmanfernandez3466 Trabant! 😂

@@EvenTheDogAgrees it would not start, no because of key, but because of blown gasket

​@@EvenTheDogAgreesA man of class and distinction I see

Criminals will just destroy the lock

Because there's no legal purpose for it

@@hypnotico7051 sure there are. You just aren’t seeing them.

I know at least 1 kit exists, but cant remember what site it was on.

@@heatshield name them

@@heatshield If you already have the key legitimately, why would you need to make another one? If you need a spare, you'd just take it to a professional key-cutter rather than make your own vastly inferior version.