[1184] ERA “Maximum Security” Padlock With Magnetic and Concentric Pins Picked and Gutted

I came here looking for this comment 😂

High praise, indeed!

I think all locks should be like this one

Imma need this lock for the whole community

Should you wish to buy, search for "ERA Professional Maximum Security Rectangular Shutter Lock"

As someone who works there I can confirm this will go down very well lol 😆

@@joshjfw Got a champagne shower yet?

@@joshjfw how'd it go

@@joshjfw Don't leave us hanging haha :D Or are you still in Barbados drenched in champagne?

I'd say a few glasses short of a champagne shower but still well recieved. Just a shame about the latest lock that uses the same mechanism haha! Maybe if he didn't know the mechanism we would have seen a better performance!

If this was Reddit, your comment would have like five awards and 8k up votes.

@@SSNReactorOperator indeed😂😂

I bet she loves it where you say "...and to show that it was not a fluke, let's do it again...."

@@klausstock8020 sometimes that's something that happens haha

i read " she asks me to hug her crack" at first..

Meanshile, I have no idea where I could buy a single magnet. Really, I need a few to put that reflective thing in the back of the heaters hahaha

@@chicoktc warhammer

No wonder the Earth's magnetic field is shifting!

Yeah those rare earth magnets are like 50 bucks

@@chicoktc it's arabbithole, I now own a variety of flexible magnetic sticky tapes....

Well he got it open at around the 3 min mark but that's still impressive

It's also 8 minutes because he's gutting it as well, its not 8 minutes of him just picking, sadly.

Agree! 👌

This is one of the longest pick times I have seen.

@@ScottKenny1978 A minute and a half, yeah long for him.

What I'm also super curious about---this is also a lock that has a removable core....is there any sort of standards in regards to their general shape? E.g. is it possible to buy one of these, and drop the core into my front door's deadbolt?

Aw, man, I *just* bought a PacLock for my bike based on LPL's recommendation, now I've got to get one of these? 😅

The highest praise I've heard on this channel.

@@vodiak Yes. He gives away compliments much more rarely than Yoda. If he just says "good" you know that means in real life very good, and if he says "I would use it" that means something exceptional.

I want 10

Zis is verri German naming reit hier.

@@fredwupkensoppel8949 Das ist gut!

Engineers aren’t creative namers

MSRP sold at msrp

@@tuckerstewart3733 yeah, if the thing has a creative name it was probably made by the marketing team that knows nothing about how the lock works. I prefer simple names tbh.

it´s not the locks, it´s the finesse that makes the vid satisfying

Yeahh, me too

Same

At least for me, I can hear someone who's passionate and an expert about something talk for hours and hours

LOckPicKing Is AddICtiVe... and yes this guy is a master!!

He's beyond elite.

@@PanduPoluan He is 1338.

Likely because he had practised quite a bit with the lock in advance.

@@Zippomon Are u saying practicing to perfection makes u a non-elite? lmaooo

I wouldn't say he opened it like it was nothing. That definitely seemed like a difficult pick even for him.

Only becent?

I think it's the cost, most people not willing to pay for quality.

I wish they had spent more on marketing, though, so it stood out from the junk a little more.

@@Daniel-en1dq That and the fact even a cheap lock will do the job of protecting against most threat. Random thief will not take the time to pick a lock. That kind of high quality lock is for people who know they are a potential target for skilled thief.

@@Elepole Exactly. As long as it isn't otherwise bypassable (e.g., by cutting, shimming), any decently made lock with security pins or a disk detainer lock is fine for 99.9% of applications.

Agree 😀👍👍

Yes, it's pretty hard to pick unless you're already familiar with the lock or have seen the key.

Exactly this... If it takes LPL more than a minute or two to open, and/or he expresses that it requires considerable skill to bypass, it goes on the list of "good locks" in my book!

A lockpicker is the person to pick a lock....a lockpick is a tool.

@@BD90.. imagine correcting minor mistakes on the internet

@@lucifermorn422 burn!

@@lucifermorn422 imagine using your imagination

@starshipeleven *open ;)

Let me show you how to open this lock with a pen

Let me just grab a magic of the elves that I keep in this big bin of elf magic just for this purpose.

It is a lock that would be considered for LPL use

LPL: I would consider using this if low on options.

@@Kongrisser Or the elf magic that BosnianBill and I collected

Since the guy used an external magnet, I think you are rather mistaken, or said shield has a terrible security flaw.

@@stefanmelo The magnet he used was inside the lock, not external. I believe the OP was talking about trying to use a magnet from outside the lock chamber itself in attempt to lift the magnetic pin in place, but with the steel slug in place, you'd end up lifting it with an external magnet and be unable to pick the lock at all. Otherwise, the magnetic pin could be rendered useless with a powerful magnet.

@@SdudyoyO Exactly so. The slug keeps a magnet from being used outside the keyway to influence the pin. The magnet being used inside the keyway is exactly how the key is designed.

@@SdudyoyO yes that is why they have a hollow pin and spring in the first location not just a hole. Using a external magnet moves the slug down on the magnetic pin but the hollow pin with the spring pushes back keeping the magnetic pin in place. The only way to manipulate the magnetic pin is to approach it like using the key.

Actually, if I may, I think Stefen used the would external wrong. I think the way he was the using the word was as to say a magnet that was bought not using the key. External as in not from the company and or possibly not authorized. Then again maybe Stefen has no clue what he's talking about.

I think he also proved that ;)

Well, I, too, came for the lockpicking, but stayed for the kindness and humility... ;-)

Just after a rough day, even if subject is irrelevant, but you need someone say to you: "Have a nice day" with a calm, phlegmatic voice

@@klausbrinck2137 humility* :)

Feels good, man. Now time for some chicken tendies

Generally speaking, products with the lowest quality and the highest quality both have really simple names. The former because marketing costs money and the later because the product speaks for itself.

If it had maximum ultra super security rectangular miniwonder lpl would not buy it to gut

It's simple, yet descriptive enough

Just typical British understatement. Brits generally equate gimmicky names with hype. So plain old "rectangular padlock" will do just fine.

Sounds like they hired Ron Swanson as their marketing director

And Fallout 4 too.

he most likely gave nocturnal tipps on how to forge the skeleton key

This dude probably mastered thieves guild just from buying the game.

versus me, who simply touched a pick (and not the lock) and it broke. like... seriously, no input and snap.

This is hilarious 😂 perfect comment

80 GBP each on ebay lol. Worth it though I think.

@@RammGmbH What currency is gbp

@@user-lq2nu6cn7y It's the quid of the Isles encapsulated within the great region of British territory. **Pound Sterling,. the Great British Pound

@@user-lq2nu6cn7y GBP is the Sterling Pound, the currency of the United Kingdom. You might have seen this kind of acronym before, i.e: USD (US Dollars), EUR (euro), RUB (Russian ruble). All currencies are standarized by a 3-letter acronym/code so I'm pretty sure you get the point by now.

Stonk: a concentrated artillery bombardment.

This is funny for those who know what you're referring to... but for those who don't, google "cthulhu" and a picture looking exactly like those locks comes up making this +2.. nice one @malidictus

This made me lol

I legit had to look up Cthulhu just to get this joke. Well Played!

A lock god...

He's just flexing on everyone now

It's also the first time I've seen the inner driver pins arranged like that. Usually their spring is inside the outer pin. That is, the hole for the inner pin doesn't go all the way through, so there is something for the spring to butt up against.

More like vacation time is suspended, mandatory overtime for everyone until production catches up. Catches up to what sir? Our shelves are overflowing. LPL said he'd consider using our lock. Oh shit, I'll tell HR to hire 50 more workers.

I wish... actually work at ERA.

@@JekaZMD did the company react to this video in any way?

@@jaapgroeneveldt4703 sent the video to my shift supervisor, he might find this amusing and share it with the managers, though I doubt the company will react in any interesting way. There are hundreds other items the company sell beside these locks.

The dogs would have had the sucker in under a minute,

He says it’s shy of being an elite (or “eedaleet”) lock, without explaining what it’s lacking.

That’s not what he said.

@@jay4sizzle There's a playlist of the highest rated locks he's done I think. There's a lot of different ways a lock can go above and beyond, so it's probably harder to succinctly boil down why something is shy of being elite in the same way you would boil down why a lock is substandard. In the latter case you can point to specific design flaws and corner cutting, in the former you would have to describe the various security features of products you might consider better.

In my opinion, this is harder than disc detainer core just cause of the small magnet requirement

Get the transparent locks to practice on.

Gener1c - Even with the clear plastic lock? 😂 Um, me too. 😪

@@2000jago I've been picking for years, and LPL's skill is something amazing. His tension control just boggles my mind. That, in my opinion, is where he truly shines.

The transparent lock is useful to learn about mechanics of the lock but doesn't help too much with skills because the feedback is quite different. I started with a little 3 pin lock and wrecking it to learn about the tension. The the single pick looking at the key and trying to set the pins in the relative order and finally started to play with a 5 pin lock with good results. That's my experience now and is been a nice learning experience, i hope it helps to you all

Reported the video for being too sexual /s

@@thisisit595 reported for using /s

@@YourAverageSpelunker Reported for using what? /s

In the next moment you find yourself watching LPL on pornhub

It's comments like these I come for. And I spelt come right so no reporting.;0)

Between £49.75 and £69.75 on amazon

@@zacksargent wow that's not even bad.

I couldn't find it on Amazon so I just bought a Master Lock. That should be fine, right?

@@GregHassler hahahaha!

Bummer. Nothing but Master locks as far as the eye can see when you search for that now on Amazon.

Where on Earth did you buy it? I can't seem to find it. Not even a manufacturer's website.

After watching his videos they know what to do.

@@SIGSAUER_P320 Not really. It's only made to look easy, just imagine actually feeling your way around these concentric pins, even after literally memorizing the layout of this specific cylinder. It's a bit like watching a master pianist or chess grandmaster play, all the techniques I basically know, can I replicate it - not in a decade

It’ll stop a picker unfortunately most people would use pry bars torches grinding wheels or something else before they pick it Just the same I like to figure out where to get one

@@sprint48219 eBay has em mate

agreed, I'd love to see a playlist of the most challenging locks for LPL

Given that most pickers are crap, I'd say 95% would give up; more, if they didn't know about the magnet. (I used to repossess motor vehicles. Older motorcycles had a fork lock that was separate from the ignition lock.)

@@UncleKennysPlace I would say 99% of pickers tbh

@@UncleKennysPlace I have opened locks like this. But no where NEAR in this kind of time frame. I currently work with a 20 minute time rule. When the timer beeps, I reset. This is down from 30 minutes two years ago.... It seems that going to 15 minutes are still a few years out... I don't have many pin-in-pin locks to practice on (3 to be precise, and sometimes I get access to a loaner), and I need to put them away when I can tell that I'm "remembering" more than feeling, but if I had, say, 30 different pin-in-pin locks that I could rotate I'm sure my skills on this type of lock would improve much faster.

@@andersjjensen You are very talented in that case. The fact that LPL can open them in far less time than that, even, is truly testament to how much he has put into this over the years. Unbelievable dedication (both of you).

@@everyhandletaken Uhm, I'm an absolutely mediocre picker by lock sports standards. I don't even pick every day any more. Sometimes a week goes by. Back when I put in two or three x 20 minutes every day I progressed fast, but it's actually a surprisingly expensive hobby once you get out of the "don't completely suck" stage. If you can't afford at least 7-8 locks of the same type you'll end up being able to remember them which makes it impossible "practice blind" in an efficient manner. These pin-in-pin types are just not as hard as people think. They're unusual, and you need to get a feel for your pick placement, but they aren't horribly hard like Medeco to get the hang of. My ASSA 700, which is a normal 7 pin lock with double-spools (sometimes called wedding cakes) and beveled pins and absolutely godlike tolerances is much much harder than Mul-T Lock style pin-in-pin.

To be fair, it still is a God tier lock.

The fact lpl said it's a lock he'd consider is praise enough for me

I thought exactly the same thing.

Aye, but the fact that picking alone took around 90s is pretty impressive of a lock for LPL!

The real god tiers are locks from the naughty bucket. Like that truely unpickable one from China (has to be half picked, then impressioned)

Look at the naughty bucket list videos there are some he has they most difficult picking and even a couple he could not pick

@@finndershood5557 oh, thank you very much for the recommendation!

@@finndershood5557 link?

@@finndershood5557 thanks, now I got something to watch for the next hour

@@hector5810 kzhead.info/sun/ZM6MeNuZhoSVmKc/bejne.html The last video is the one that shows all the unpickable ones.

I believe there is 1 such video. Edit: found it: kzhead.info/sun/hqyNYM-GrXqjqWg/bejne.html

Just play it in reverse

Yes. The simple design helps because it doesn't look like something that would be used to secure something valuable

I think the magnet will be the hard bit. You could guess there's pin in pin due to the size and shape of the keyway which will tell you it's a dimple lock and you can expect pin in pin, but magnets (how do they work?) are the hidden factor meant to trip you up. Being able to see the key reveals a ton of info about the lock, which does give LPL here a good advantage in picking it. Also why you should never post pictures of your keys online, and be wary of letting people see your keys. DeviantOllam has a great talk about the info you leak by letting people see your keys, and how as a physical penetration tester, he leverages that to his advantage.

@@alexanderday6754 It's the lock equivalent of a sleeper. Looks like a stock econobox, but a beast where it doesn't show until it's time to go.

@@Just_A_Dude The problem is the huge ERA branding. Its like putting a huge tuner sticker on your sleeper. Kinda defeats the purpose.

How would you know there is a magnet? Because your pick would stick to it and you would feel it.

Probably custom handmade locks he designed and made himself.

And with Bosnian Bill of course.

A lock so powerful that throwing it into the sun locks the sun

“This is a lock I made with Bosnian Bill, we used adimantiam for the casing, kryptonite and vibranium pins, dylithium crystal security discs with a flux capacitor in the keyway, and a bolt milled from the remains of molnijr.”

The Bowley padlock I suppose

kind of a moot point in the age where everyone has the internet in their pocket

No prior knowledge of the lock is my issue. I don't feel it true that saying "let's see what it takes to pick into it" meantioned that part.

Kinda, since the mag. pin is a rising pin and since the core itself is of standard design, it would be possible to feel for the pin, but it would take both a level of expertise to recognize that it was a risen magnetic pin and not a missing pin. lock-picking in general is easier once you have seen the key.

​@@BD90.. In the same way as car thieves might know what car they can or can't break into based on the make and model, a lock picker might know the particularities of different locks. Security by obscurity is no security at all.

@@inflatablewolfie Not entirely true, you cannot really hide your car model and type, but the lock can be hidden, like inside a door and only visible to some degree, or even fully obstructed if you want, heck, you can even change the core so the outside shows a different model and expected core. In most case your picker will have no access to the key and only limited access to the lock itself (in time and entry ways), yes in theory you can expect a master picker that recognize it from sight and know exactly what to do and have the right tool ready, but in reality, most picker will simply give up any tricky lock like this after not succeeding for a minute or two, since they can get similar return with a much simpler lock on the next whatever they trying to open. In most case you just need better security than the nearby other stuff, not enough to beat every picker in the world.

I have the documents for your law firm in our safe, unfortunately we have lost the key. I'm afraid that you may need to come back another day. *clears throat*

To be fair, the dentist is saying the names given to each tooth in human anatomy and they're basically just in alphanumeric order

As the guy before said. The say the names if each teeth and its condition. So the Assistant can write it down or make a note.

That is the true intent of the lock... to make those that shouldn't be in it not worth their effort to defeat.

If it’s hidden under your bed with padlocks it would probably be easier for a thief to take it home and bust it open by force than to bother picking it 😅

Me too. I have tons of them as I use them in magic. Hups, did I reveal something and they’ll kick me out of the Magic Assn?

@@mattikaki Ive heard they do the Uri Geller on your spine when you betray the brotherhood :'D

I'm glad to have a blob of magnets to sir.

QUICK BUY THEIR STOCKS

Right? I saw that in the title and assumed it’d turn out to be a cheap wafer lock

Hmm, it's only on the "consider" list.

@@t1n4444 well pretty sure the "I'm using it" list is not one he would disclose, cause you know, security and stuff.

@@bracco23 Indeed, I have made the same observation as yourself in answer to another comment.

Starting to think the only true security is through obscurity.

Tedious, but not really complex.

The purpose of taking them apart is not primarily to entertain the viewers (well, not originally when he started the channel), but to prove to other pickers what is in the lock, and that he didn't tamper with it. To pickers, recording the assembly has very little meaning. Edit: however, I think there is at least 1 video where he reassembles a lock. Edit: found it: kzhead.info/sun/hqyNYM-GrXqjqWg/bejne.html

Master locks.

@@brandenbelanger4125 the ones that only MASTERS can open

He is def elite. But remember there are a lot of people not posting in Yt.

@@garyhost354 Thats cos youtube is blocked in most prisons.

Of cause he says he'd consider it, because knowing that he does would give thieves knowledge. And I think it's understandable that he wants to not give out that information

Suspect the locks he does use "in real life", for his own security won't be found on this vlog ... 😂😂😂

@@t1n4444 no, he has shown the locks he uses before. He won't show the keys to those locks, however.

@@ScottKenny1978 I would suggest he may of said that ... and used something else altogether. That would be "proper" security as in keeping his actual arrangements entiro to himself. For all we know he has dogs or geese ... not a lot you can get passed them. You won't need me to remind you of Livy's account of how the geese warned the Romans of the Gauls sneaking up on the temple of Juno. I would say geese are better every time ... and you can always eat them later.

he removes them from old keys

Maybe designed in UK, but made in Taiwan/China

As far as I know ERA does make their locks here, I pass their manufacturing centre. High quality low quantity goods like very expensive locks benefit from the skilled (expensive) workforce.

@@hannahb6249 I work there in the warehouse part of the building and I never saw any pad locks being made in manufacturing dept. They only make simple steel parts and locks for UPVC windows and doors, everything else is manufactured in Chinese factories.

4 pins you set normally in positions 2 to 5. Position 1 is a magnetic pin you pull instead of pushing with a pick.

Your profile pic matches your comment so well

I was confused about that, too. The key appears to only have 4 pin actuators including the magnet, but disassembly of the lock showed that there were 5 pins including the magnetic one.

@@XJWill1 Yes and no, if you look at the tip of the key you see some ridges along the center line of the 3 dimples, which is what moves the 4th (or 1st) pin. At least, that's what I could gather from it.

@@danielfekete4612 I see what you mean.

Naah maith but one fo the blokes down the road said that i can

"Wot, me Ociffer? Nah, I jus lef mi Cheddars at 'ome..."

Hmmm... 2 like that with the oposite polarity... so they push around magnets that are bigger than the ones in the key...

False gates are usually a thing for Disk detainer cores.

Oh yeah. A lot of modellers and Miniature Wargamers use them to make their models interchangable, especially when you want to change what weapons or gear a model has. I am... learning this art.

How do you think you get wireless airbuds? Or the vibrator in your phone. Of course there are small magnets out there!

@@arueshalaetablebuildingsociety Exactly. I started the tabletop hobby at the end of 2019 and the amount of small magnets (from 2x1mm to 8x2mm, everything in x1 and x2mm variants) I had lying around for quite a while really lets LPL's collection look like a small one. But it's just so much more fun (and of course, way cheaper) to magnetize my models.

@@MrSagranda "I started the tabletop hobby at the end of 2019" Lockdown has entered the chat.