These were issued and made mandatory by my Australian highschool for our lockers, which were of the dual upper/lower type. People could easily stomp on the locks on the lower lockers with the edge of their shoes to open them. Administration didn't care, they liked them because they all had master key access. The lesson learnt was the evils of tyranny.
If the door is made of wood, it's probably less like breaking the lock and more like just punching it out of the door. If force isn't the answer, you're just not using enough.
You could easily bring a large hole punch and a hammer in a very small gym bag. Pull them out in the locker room when no ones there, hit it in one tap and go
I went to a naval boarding school, worst threat my parents ever made. We would hit them real good with the heel of our dress shoes, good old bates. They would pop open, no damage, still fully functional... 9/11 happened during my senior year
We used to just give em a good wack with our football helmets highschool. Another option (assuming the locker row was knee height) was to simply stomp your heel across the top of the lock.
@@juan_becerra In middle school we'd just use our bare hands. Yank it down the right way and they'd pop open. Of course these were locks that had been reused for years, so who knows how many times they'd been kicked/hit/looked at reproachfully.
these locks were used in high schools for this very reason if the janitor needed to break a lock off a locker they could easily do it without damaging the locker it self seen it many times when I was in school those crappy locks sometimes malfunction and don't open when the code is entered in.
@@Tydorstus in some styles of lockers you wouldn't be able to get a pair of cutters in on the shackle, but he's not wrong. In fact, the lockers in my high-school had masterlocks very similar to these build into the locker itself but they all had a keyway in the center of the dial that was masterkeyed
Yeah, casually dropping that he went to military school and was regularly carrying an m14 around enough that it was the preferred way to open locks So he's a master lock picker, and probably a very good marksman. This man is mildly terrifying
@@zachh3461 I do like how you misspelled "grammar" in that sentence, as well as messing up the capitalization and using the wrong "your" (if that was intentional) :p
That’s the first thing I really paid attention too. Also that he said he was in military school 30 something years ago. He sounds younger then he is I guess.
LockPickingLawyer -- Very true. However, if someone walks into a gym or school with a crowbar and hammer and starts whacking away on lockers, I hope some heads get raised in suspicion. Of course shimming the shackle would be a lot more discrete and not take much longer. In the unfortunate event, most places have cameras as a last resort, be it school or gym; backyard shed, not usually the case.
Still, if you pay US$4 to protect anything, you shouldn't be too surprised when the lock falls apart on it's own let alone when hit with a hammer. Have you tried yelling at one?
I think the hammer resistance is quite respectable, and the approach leaves clear traces of a non-authorized access. I would consider this sufficient for most locker room applications.
The fact that you might need to approach with something as conspicuous as a crowbar to hit it hard enough to open should count as a win for MasterLock. At least you can't hit it with your boot or shim it quietly with a strip of an orange juice container.
@@serendipityshopnycI hate to tell you, but there were comments from people on this video who confirmed first hand that yes, they can be opened with excessive force via a kick with a boot.
Well I would give it a pass for lockers considering all lockers Ive seen use a ressessed box in the locker door where the lock loops around the bar so it would be quite difficult to use brute force unless you used a wrench smaller tool to pry it apart.
I don't think the LPL forgot anything. I don't think they send a key with a combo lock, unless you are an organization, like a school. Besides, it was probably easier for him to pick the lock than find a key if they included one. He is the LPL after all.
Leslie Franklin Why do people insist on giving out their dumb ass opinion when they can’t even pay attention to 5 minutes of a video to get the real information. Infuriating
@@MrEvanNoyes why do people insist on giving out their dumbass opinion when the issue is already resolved and there's no reason to complain. Infuriating.
@@MrEvanNoyes Im pretty sure the guy who 'infuriated' you was referring to the 'forgetting' as being an act for comedy purposes, rather than an actual admission of forgetting how combination locks work.
We used to use a towel fed through the shackle in high school (20 years ago). A quick yank and they came open, with no damage and the ability to relock them to cover your tracks.
Master Lock Customer Service: "I'm sorry. It looks like we forgot to send you the small key to open the lock from the back." LPL: "Don't sweat it. I've got 7 seconds."
'91 Beat Navy! When I first saw the Master lock, I was reminded how we innocent cadets got trained by a SSG in Airborne School how easy it was to bust them open with an E-tool and tent stake. When you mentioned lock boxes and M-14's, I made a USMA assumption. Great videos, by the way.
I'm just wondering does LpL carry around a set of keys to get into his House/car or just a set of picks. Puts key in front door of home"not this doesn't feel right"pulls out pick Miss LpL "good dam it George just open the dam door we have geogeous and the Ben and Jerry's is melting"
This is pretty overkill - back in highschool, we had those locks on our lockers. Some of the lockers were at shin-level, and people figured out pretty quickly that a quick stomp on the dial knob would pop these locks right open.
It took about a week to figure out I could open my locker faster and more reliably by jiggling the handle just right than by actually dialing the combo.
In the Finnish military we opened ancient Abloy padlocks on personal lockers with a sharp blow from a field shovel. I guess some things are the same no matter where you're from.
Yeah, like pants. No matter where you go, they always have that one big hole for your waist and the two little long ones for your legs. Literally every country on the planet would you believe it?
We must have had some of the old ones at my schools. Some of my friends would just go up and put our finger through the loop for some grip and give them a good pull and they opened.
I remember (20 years ago) as long as you didn't 'scramble' the numbers you could just easily re-open them again with a normal pull. So of course most of us left them that way.
Greetings from Myrtle Beach! I went to Wofford in order to become a United Methodist pastor, but I spent two summers at the Citadel camp as a young teen, then went on the 1972 European tour with Colonel James Woods... a great man. I even attended a July 4 ice cream party in General Clark's back yard, hosted by the man himself. I have plenty of friends who went to El Cid, including quite a few attorneys. Awesome school and forever in my heart.
You're supposed to do a full turn before going to the 2nd number. I think he did it right. But I've also bought many of these locks that the combos didnt work right out if the box. Master lock has terrible quality control.
Stardust 3DS I think he means that when LPL went for the third number, he was supposed to go a full turn between the second and third numbers. Not sure if putting the combination in would have worked in any case though; seeing the wheel turn when he was trying to close it puts me under the impression that his destructive entry most likely scrambled the combination.
@@QuiescentPilot I use these for school and they are the same kind, i think and you have to skip the second number so you are rotating more than 360 degrees to get to the 2nd number.
Nah, he rigged the kwikset door locks on his house to brick if someone picks them. He has a video to show us how to do it, quick and cheap kwikset lock upgrades.
In my middle school (6,7, and 8th grade) students would turn the lock to get it in a better position, and then give it a good kick, and it would open. Most of the time it was just one kick. The students had an easier time getting the lock off than the staff that would occasionally have to cut the locks off if someone forgot the combination.
When I was in high school we were given American brand combination locks for our school and gym lockers. One day when I was a junior all of a sudden we had to replace the locks, turn in the American locks and get a Master lock to replace it. I didn't know why until most of a year later, when another student told me. Seems there had been a rash of locker break-ins, and as part of a plea deal the perp demonstrated to the administration how they were doing it. They just hit the American locks with a shoe heel and they popped open. That was a long time ago, we were probably given the same "M14" Master locks you had.
My school use those for our gym, while they have a key hole, many have found the heal of a shoe can open one if swung with a good deal of force. Lost twenty buck from that. Even my 2 dollar bill. Bastards.
When I was in middle school I had my wallet stolen that had over 200 bucks in cash stolen, plus gift cards, and it was my grandfather's old swiss army wallet. It was my prized possession. I knew exactly who did it even right after it happened and knew how to prove it. But the Dean wouldn't do anything about it. Like 7 years later I was talking to my best friend about it and she asked who did it and where. Apparently that same guy took my best friend out to dinner and said that he had "recently gotten a lot of money" and wouldn't show her the wallet. I don't even care about the money, I just want that wallet. I will get it back somehow
"give me a minute" i like how he thinks we are with him and have to wait while he walks inside to look at locks when in actual fact he just edits that out
If you take a smaller hammer and tap the sides of the locks while pulling on a piece of rope run through the shackle to pull the body of the lock they will open and you can reuse the lock. The fact is most master locks and many others like them can be opened the same way. You don't have to tap very hard and just pull with moderate force on the rope while tapping.
I remember back when I was in school we used master locks for our lockers and if you left the dial where it was after you opened and closed it you could just pull it open again
@@iiGingiey the thing to remember is that almost no thieves bother picking the lock. They usually go for either a bypass or a destructive attack. The problem is the locks that can be raked or zipped open, both actions look like someone who has the keys to the lock.
I like these combination Master locks. Their good for their intended purpose like a school locker where its highly unusually to find someone walking around with a crow bar and sledge hammer attacking the lock. It's kinda like hating a suit case lock because you can hammer it open. I bought a combination Master lock 2001D model and it seems to be a higher end version of the locks in this video.
A test I would like to see on the same new Master Lock is: try freezing the lock internals first with canned air propellant (with inverted can, so the very cold isobutane comes out). Note that isobutane is heaver than air so you can flow it from above and it will sink into the necessary areas.
"This is the LockPicking Lawyer, and today, we're just going to beat a couple of locks into submission and then roast Master Lock for it." I mean, you could attach one end of a chain to the lock and the other end to the back of your car and just rip it apart with the force of the engine. Is that a terrible lock? Or is that overkill on the part of the intruder? LPL: "The combination no longer works, but we have this key bypass here. Let's see if that still works." Me: Oh good. That should be quick. He just bought the locks, so he has the keys handy to make this test effortless, right? LPL: *pulls out picks* Me: *dies laughing*
Kids used to open combination locks on school lockers by hitting the dial with the bottom of a book or notebook would generally open them up (especially the cheapies).
In the 80’s, at our junior HS, we were picking these. Folks from Masterlock visited us to show how we we’re picking them. They subsequently improved them but still pickable...
If I recall correctly, you need to turn right once more after the third number. The lock will feel pressure and can be opened. I used these for years in high school; they were such a pain to put in the combination correctly. My bet is that the combination did work, but LPL just tried on some quirks of the design.
Master locks made for high school lockers: can be jimmied open LPL: good job master lock terrible as usual Master lock: makes newer locks that can’t be jimmied open LPL: jimmies open new locks with a sledge hammer LPL: good job master lock terrible as usual
I told my son that locks are not really to keep someone out, but to show forced entry. This is why I am glad Masterlock improved this lock, so it shows forced entry.
Well that's an improvement! Back in Highschool it was pretty common to have people "pop" them open w/the actual rod in a locker. It would leave them compromised and you couldn't tell unless you gave it a yank.
I remember having my high school issuing us all these exact locks at the beginning of the year for our lockers and I took 1 look at it and went to the hardware store
Went to school in the 1950's, identical looking locker locks. You could just spin them with a little tension and find the way. Back then, I recall that only half of the positions were used, ie 20 of 40 real positions.
I'm not sure if harbor freight has this but I saw a video with someone using a hand-held powered bolt cutters that chews through padlocks easier than standard hand. Bolt cutters
@D B More than half. Stop trying to act like it isn't. It's past the number where signs of age start to kick in. You sound like you're 45 or something.
When I was in high school, there was a popular brand of combo lock called Slaymaker and used by many on their lockers. I discovered that if you gave the bottom of a Slaymaker a good blow with a sneaker, it would pop open. Masterlocks were resistant to that attack.
Okay, I realize I’m seeing this 4 years later, but the comment of whacking these with an M14 sounds EXACTLY like the experiences of Citadel cadets. Go dawgs!
@@yourmomlmao9638 I'm just guessing that in any situation where a school/company is buying multiple/dozens of combination locks, they would want/demand a few master keys.
I understand why Master would put a secondary opening mechanism (the keyway on the back) on/in a combination lock despite being junk quality, It is disappointing to see it smashed and picked so easily. Keep breaking them! Maybe they'll make a better product one day LOL. The way the metal folded/deformed on the first lock says it all. Thanks for uploading!
Not only that but I always figured that having the lock as the easiest failure mode means that thieves will never damage the more expensive/difficult to replace lockers.
The ones we had in school were still shimable, also the master key on the back was super easy to pick, apparently easy to decode too but I never went to the effort, but a hammer or rifle butt was not needed
When I was 10 my dad built the three of us sheet metal strong boxes for Christmas, with Master combo locks. I can still remember the combinations 44 years later: 0-6-28 34-24-14 16-30-8 Now you can steal my Stretch Armstrong.
Me & my friends used to take over unused lockers, in highschool. Needless to say, we forgot combos, from time to time. This is how we got back into them.
When I was a kid, some of us did have fun opening some random Master Lock blind, behind their back. Usually, in less than a minute. Often, faster than the owner who know the combination.
So many comments on here had me doubting my memory on combo locks, with nobody refuting them. I think his combo entry method was correct. Everyone that is saying he needs to pass the second number once, seems not to have realized that he already did when he made a full round to the first number again. I think going around any more than that would be like resetting the tumblers in reverse. I thought it was more likely that he just mixed up the two combo slips.
this kind of opening is quite common for locker looks. i am a bit forgetful some times and in my time in the army i did forget maybe around 3-4 times my key for my locker. there is the multi purpose shovel, that works well as a look picking tool. even better if you have 2...works with every normal lock so far.
These were the exact locks that most kids used on their lockers in high school. You didn't need any tool whatsoever. Almost every guy knew that all you had to do was lift the lock up in the air, so the dial would be facing the locker and the lock was upside down, and then a well placed kick after you let go of the lock, before it fell back down. Bam, worked every time.
When you said without picking and without manipulation I just imagine the lock sitting in a chair in an interrogation room with two guys sweating with their sleeves rolled up and a back table filled with torture devices shouting “we can do this all day”
Thank you for this entertaining tests. Great to see the anti-shim bolt - never seen that design before. Could it be that you missed one turn when you tried the combo?
We had these locks on our high school lockers. Often the combination didn't work, but a whack with a thick book on top of the lock, as you did with a hammer, would pop them open immediately.
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5:35 I don't know why I was expecting you to grab the key
Right lmfao
Thought the same thing for a split second.
He did grab a key LOL it’s called a sledgehammer. That’s the universal key for all master locks open any of them guaranteed
@@LJT7907 that, and/or explosives or thermite
hahahaha same
These were issued and made mandatory by my Australian highschool for our lockers, which were of the dual upper/lower type. People could easily stomp on the locks on the lower lockers with the edge of their shoes to open them.
Administration didn't care, they liked them because they all had master key access. The lesson learnt was the evils of tyranny.
I hear it keeps getting worse in Australia too
@@thedarkgreenvanman yeah, unfortunately for some of us, idiots keep voting the despots in.
Tim Hinchcliffe well just know if 💩 hits the fan theres Canadians who have your back
@@thedarkgreenvanman do you have any spare nukes? China just threatened to nuke us because we just bought some nuclear submarines from America.
my school still uses these in Adelaide
Huh. So video games with characters smashing the locks off with the butt of a gun are accurate. They just use Master Locks in those games.
Just make sure there ain't one in the chamber
@@TheDamageinc81 Just shoot the lock, easily enough for a master lock
Mr. $elf Destruct shoot the gun and use the recoil as the force to break it
@@TinTin12121 nah, shoot straight down, where LPL put the crowbar. 1/4 ounce at 1200fps (basic 9mm 115grain fmj) will do the job just fine.
If the door is made of wood, it's probably less like breaking the lock and more like just punching it out of the door. If force isn't the answer, you're just not using enough.
This is why I’m always suspicious of people walking around with a sledgehammer and crowbar in my gym’s locker room.
Or the hallway. Thankfully no one stole my lunch when I was in school. :)
That Guy Alex :) or cracked your skull …. people crazy
I'd be very suspicious of anyone carrying a M14 in the gym's locker room as well. 😅
You could easily bring a large hole punch and a hammer in a very small gym bag. Pull them out in the locker room when no ones there, hit it in one tap and go
@@gcolombelli not if it was at military school
In the navy we could open these locks two ways:
1. Stealthily: use two wrenches to pry it open.
2. Blatantly: Hit it really hard with your boot.
I went to a naval boarding school, worst threat my parents ever made. We would hit them real good with the heel of our dress shoes, good old bates. They would pop open, no damage, still fully functional... 9/11 happened during my senior year
We used to just give em a good wack with our football helmets highschool. Another option (assuming the locker row was knee height) was to simply stomp your heel across the top of the lock.
@@juan_becerra In middle school we'd just use our bare hands. Yank it down the right way and they'd pop open. Of course these were locks that had been reused for years, so who knows how many times they'd been kicked/hit/looked at reproachfully.
@@ssvis2 can confirm, still works fine with the new locks
Could you use a more blatant way and shoot them open?
When you're so used to lockpicking that you need to refresh your memory on how to open it legit 😂
And then picks it open anyway
Should have had ms lockpicking lawyer show us the destructive entry method
@@Reece8u I wonder what kind of entry method he uses on Ms LockpickingLawyer
@@user-kw9qu2gz8v marriage. The most destructive entry ever.
Timothy Zajdela 3 is binding
LPL: "That is a poor, poor design."
Master Lock: "Wow, this video is the highest praise he's given us yet!"
these locks were used in high schools for this very reason if the janitor needed to break a lock off a locker they could easily do it without damaging the locker it self seen it many times when I was in school those crappy locks sometimes malfunction and don't open when the code is entered in.
@@SharkButtholio but wouldn't a bolt cutter do the same job?
@@Tydorstus in some styles of lockers you wouldn't be able to get a pair of cutters in on the shackle, but he's not wrong. In fact, the lockers in my high-school had masterlocks very similar to these build into the locker itself but they all had a keyway in the center of the dial that was masterkeyed
Everyday I learn more LPL lore, and everyday I am significantly more terrified of this man's potential
Yeah, casually dropping that he went to military school and was regularly carrying an m14 around enough that it was the preferred way to open locks
So he's a master lock picker, and probably a very good marksman.
This man is mildly terrifying
Y'all funny, this guy seems to know better than anyone that with great power comes great responsibility; just don't p him off and you should be fine
"Let's see if the key still works." *picks lock* "Yep. Key still works."
ye bc it like a key..pay atenttion an u will know more stuff! :DD
@Ralph Stein but u no knowstuff either! :Di jokig
@@RyanTosh r/ihadastroke
@@Void_Inc-0x What on earth happened here
@@zachh3461 I do like how you misspelled "grammar" in that sentence, as well as messing up the capitalization and using the wrong "your" (if that was intentional) :p
"the fastest way to open it was with the but of an M14" well, I think we can tell one of the origin points of LPL
That’s the first thing I really paid attention too. Also that he said he was in military school 30 something years ago. He sounds younger then he is I guess.
@@jprktzNavy still uses M14s for shark watch, or I think it was shark watch idk, I was a dumb Marin
@@jprktz He could have gone to military school in high-school, making him in his mid-to-late 40s. Pretty young guy still.
Master combos...made for safe guarding your sweaty gym shorts, not your tool shed. And priced accordingly.
Unfortunately, the same locker that holds your sweat gym shorts usually also contains your wallet, cell phone, car keys, etc.
LockPickingLawyer -- Very true. However, if someone walks into a gym or school with a crowbar and hammer and starts whacking away on lockers, I hope some heads get raised in suspicion. Of course shimming the shackle would be a lot more discrete and not take much longer. In the unfortunate event, most places have cameras as a last resort, be it school or gym; backyard shed, not usually the case.
thechosendude it's happened... most common is hiding bolt cutters in a towel or jacket.
Still, if you pay US$4 to protect anything, you shouldn't be too surprised when the lock falls apart on it's own let alone when hit with a hammer. Have you tried yelling at one?
Or your locker at school
I think the hammer resistance is quite respectable, and the approach leaves clear traces of a non-authorized access. I would consider this sufficient for most locker room applications.
The fact that you might need to approach with something as conspicuous as a crowbar to hit it hard enough to open should count as a win for MasterLock. At least you can't hit it with your boot or shim it quietly with a strip of an orange juice container.
@@serendipityshopnycI hate to tell you, but there were comments from people on this video who confirmed first hand that yes, they can be opened with excessive force via a kick with a boot.
Well I would give it a pass for lockers considering all lockers Ive seen use a ressessed box in the locker door where the lock loops around the bar so it would be quite difficult to use brute force unless you used a wrench smaller tool to pry it apart.
There's something delightfully hilarious about a lockpicking expert forgetting how to open a lock the normal way lol
I don't think the LPL forgot anything. I don't think they send a key with a combo lock, unless you are an organization, like a school. Besides, it was probably easier for him to pick the lock than find a key if they included one. He is the LPL after all.
Leslie Franklin 5:00
Leslie Franklin Why do people insist on giving out their dumb ass opinion when they can’t even pay attention to 5 minutes of a video to get the real information. Infuriating
@@MrEvanNoyes why do people insist on giving out their dumbass opinion when the issue is already resolved and there's no reason to complain.
Infuriating.
@@MrEvanNoyes Im pretty sure the guy who 'infuriated' you was referring to the 'forgetting' as being an act for comedy purposes, rather than an actual admission of forgetting how combination locks work.
We used to use a towel fed through the shackle in high school (20 years ago). A quick yank and they came open, with no damage and the ability to relock them to cover your tracks.
Two burglars are casing a joint. One asks “Is there a lock?” The other looks at the Master Lock, and says “Nope”.
Then the lock faintly clicks open due to the shock of the vocal sound waves
The first burglar was blind i guess
@@allah___maadarchod r/woooooosh
the first burglar is the lookout in the car on the little radio
@@kanaldings6122 🤔 point
You know you’ve gone off the deep end when it’s easier to pick a lock than to open it properly.
In case you wanted to know LPL, the old ways haven’t changed. We still use our M-14s to open those locks at The Citadel 😂
Lmao your out at the citadel? Im just down the road at nnptc and we have beefier locks on our stuff
Joseph Caouette Can’t trust each other? What a surprise!
@@josephcaouette you in power school?
At VFMA in the sixties we didn't need locks. It was called honor.
@@stevek8829 lol oh yes, human beings changed that much and thievery didn't exist back then.
I really hope 'hit it with a hammer' becomes your new series :-))
Lock Noob Sounds Like A Good One Too Me 👷🏼🔒🔨🔓😎. Nick🧔🏽, UA-cam🔐: Lock Pick Nick & Nicholas Aarons.
I like the idea!
Hammertime
Lock Hammering Lawyer?
Could be a great series - There's a lot of things that need hammering!
Master Lock Customer Service: "I'm sorry. It looks like we forgot to send you the small key to open the lock from the back."
LPL: "Don't sweat it. I've got 7 seconds."
'91 Beat Navy! When I first saw the Master lock, I was reminded how we innocent cadets got trained by a SSG in Airborne School how easy it was to bust them open with an E-tool and tent stake. When you mentioned lock boxes and M-14's, I made a USMA assumption.
Great videos, by the way.
Even a master lock picker can’t remember which way to open the high school combination locks. Now I don’t feel so bad.
The m14, the original lockpick.
Just as God intended.
Amen
The pointy end will open them too, but it's a lot louder.
@@csn583 do you keep your bayonet on?
@@ElectrifiedGremlin Sure, why not.
5:00
forgot how to open a lock the normal way
5:20
nope
5:35
ah, familiar territory
You were so right, I laughed my arse off !
I'm just wondering does LpL carry around a set of keys to get into his House/car or just a set of picks.
Puts key in front door of home"not this doesn't feel right"pulls out pick
Miss LpL "good dam it George just open the dam door we have geogeous and the Ben and Jerry's is melting"
Forgot to use capitals and proper punctuation in one's comment...
2s binding
@@JackTalyorD : Not without capitals and proper punctuation...
This is pretty overkill - back in highschool, we had those locks on our lockers. Some of the lockers were at shin-level, and people figured out pretty quickly that a quick stomp on the dial knob would pop these locks right open.
It took about a week to figure out I could open my locker faster and more reliably by jiggling the handle just right than by actually dialing the combo.
I thought he's 30 something till he said 25-30 years earlier 🤣
Same, he sounds relatively young-middle aged, but he must be over the hill by now
Same I was like “wait 25-30 years?! How old are you?”
@@bp67499 how does that work, was he 7 - 13 years old when he was in the military?
Hidden immortal hiding as a lockpicking youtuber.
@@ChadKakashi Why would be lie about his age? It wouldn't make sense to lie about his age if he openly talks about whiskey in the same interview.
The only guy that can make smashing open locks with a hammer sound dignified
In the Finnish military we opened ancient Abloy padlocks on personal lockers with a sharp blow from a field shovel. I guess some things are the same no matter where you're from.
Yeah, like pants. No matter where you go, they always have that one big hole for your waist and the two little long ones for your legs. Literally every country on the planet would you believe it?
@@swine13 Bro you know what a kilt is?
We must have had some of the old ones at my schools. Some of my friends would just go up and put our finger through the loop for some grip and give them a good pull and they opened.
Thanks remarkable.
I remember (20 years ago) as long as you didn't 'scramble' the numbers you could just easily re-open them again with a normal pull. So of course most of us left them that way.
@@truthsmiles well yeah, that's like just leaving your key in the lock so you don't have to pull it out of your pocket.
This was school where all there was in my locker was books and gym clothes.
Some people loved there locks that just pulled open. Not like any master mind was trying to steal your maths homework.
Greetings from Myrtle Beach! I went to Wofford in order to become a United Methodist pastor, but I spent two summers at the Citadel camp as a young teen, then went on the 1972 European tour with Colonel James Woods... a great man. I even attended a July 4 ice cream party in General Clark's back yard, hosted by the man himself. I have plenty of friends who went to El Cid, including quite a few attorneys. Awesome school and forever in my heart.
Master locks. Keeping honest people honest since 1921.
I don't think he put in the combo correctly
He didnt lol ur supose to pass the # on the 2nd turn kne he just went straight to it haha
He passed the second number before landing on it. It was 22 the first one was 20 so he passed it immediately after he started turning it.
You're supposed to do a full turn before going to the 2nd number. I think he did it right. But I've also bought many of these locks that the combos didnt work right out if the box. Master lock has terrible quality control.
Stardust 3DS I think he means that when LPL went for the third number, he was supposed to go a full turn between the second and third numbers.
Not sure if putting the combination in would have worked in any case though; seeing the wheel turn when he was trying to close it puts me under the impression that his destructive entry most likely scrambled the combination.
@@QuiescentPilot I use these for school and they are the same kind, i think and you have to skip the second number so you are rotating more than 360 degrees to get to the 2nd number.
I bet this guy picks his front door every day to get into his house 😂
Nah, he rigged the kwikset door locks on his house to brick if someone picks them. He has a video to show us how to do it, quick and cheap kwikset lock upgrades.
He has said not to pick locks you need because you could bind up internals.
Scott Kenny I mean a brick through the window would be a better way to break in.
@@xxEzraBxxx if LPL is securing his house so even he can't get in, a wrecking ball is a better option.
yes.. his House..
I heard of kids opening these by hitting them with their shoe.
LOL.
In my middle school (6,7, and 8th grade) students would turn the lock to get it in a better position, and then give it a good kick, and it would open. Most of the time it was just one kick. The students had an easier time getting the lock off than the staff that would occasionally have to cut the locks off if someone forgot the combination.
The comment above you says the same thing
Once I literally lightly tugged on one and it opened. I think it was really old
I can imagine Nikita Khrushchev opening one of these with a shoe. ; )
Needed to help a resident get in there storage locker, remembered this video from years ago and it popped open the second swing! Thanks so much!👍
When I was in high school we were given American brand combination locks for our school and gym lockers. One day when I was a junior all of a sudden we had to replace the locks, turn in the American locks and get a Master lock to replace it. I didn't know why until most of a year later, when another student told me. Seems there had been a rash of locker break-ins, and as part of a plea deal the perp demonstrated to the administration how they were doing it. They just hit the American locks with a shoe heel and they popped open. That was a long time ago, we were probably given the same "M14" Master locks you had.
Ah, the good 'ol open-the-combination-lock-with-the-butt-of-a-rifle trick!
Surprisingly effective!
M14, the original multi-tool.
Neva fails
Sounds like something Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 would have said!
Sapi plates also work
My school use those for our gym, while they have a key hole, many have found the heal of a shoe can open one if swung with a good deal of force. Lost twenty buck from that. Even my 2 dollar bill. Bastards.
You lost a Robin??
Just so you know, you can easily get a two from a mint. Just ask
I remember kids in my school would flip these locks straight up so the combination wheel would hit the locker, worked pretty much every time
When I was in middle school I had my wallet stolen that had over 200 bucks in cash stolen, plus gift cards, and it was my grandfather's old swiss army wallet. It was my prized possession. I knew exactly who did it even right after it happened and knew how to prove it. But the Dean wouldn't do anything about it. Like 7 years later I was talking to my best friend about it and she asked who did it and where. Apparently that same guy took my best friend out to dinner and said that he had "recently gotten a lot of money" and wouldn't show her the wallet. I don't even care about the money, I just want that wallet. I will get it back somehow
@@pravus9769 Good luck man, you better get that back
"Using nothing but a squirrel, string, and a hammer, Dave was able to construct a lockpick."
This is the closest Master is ever gonna get to receiving a compliment from LPL.
"give me a minute" i like how he thinks we are with him and have to wait while he walks inside to look at locks when in actual fact he just
edits that out
“Behind my house” AKA your neighbors.
And this is why UA-cam is amazing. I learned today that nothing can be protected by about 99 percent of the locks sold on Amazon.
If you take a smaller hammer and tap the sides of the locks while pulling on a piece of rope run through the shackle to pull the body of the lock they will open and you can reuse the lock. The fact is most master locks and many others like them can be opened the same way. You don't have to tap very hard and just pull with moderate force on the rope while tapping.
I remember back when I was in school we used master locks for our lockers and if you left the dial where it was after you opened and closed it you could just pull it open again
Imagine you're going under for surgery and the last thing you hear is: "this is the Lock Picking Lawyer and I've got a crowbar and a nice big hammer"
5:00 When you're too used to pick locks that you forgot how to open them the regular way, with the combination😂
HCkev exactly
For once he had to be honest on opening a lock
I was always taught 3x right 2x left 1x right.
Same thing... just stated in a different way. I rechecked the combination slip, and I explained it the same way they say it on the packaging.
You have to go around one more time on the second number, then straight to the last.
Yeah he needed to go around one more time on the second number
Uy
Yes, I also thought that he got it wrong. I really wonder if they still actually work
Locks, like glass windows, only keep honest people honest. Anything short of concrete or welded steel won't keep someone out.
This channel has taught me that every lock is bullshit of the picker knows what he is doing
@@iiGingiey the thing to remember is that almost no thieves bother picking the lock. They usually go for either a bypass or a destructive attack. The problem is the locks that can be raked or zipped open, both actions look like someone who has the keys to the lock.
Glass windows will cut you
@@Timeward76 unless you're wearing something to protect from it.
Most criminals will think about that, baggy clothes help
The more I learn about LPL the more badass he comes across.
I like these combination Master locks. Their good for their intended purpose like a school locker where its highly unusually to find someone walking around with a crow bar and sledge hammer attacking the lock. It's kinda like hating a suit case lock because you can hammer it open. I bought a combination Master lock 2001D model and it seems to be a higher end version of the locks in this video.
A test I would like to see on the same new Master Lock is: try freezing the lock internals first with canned air propellant (with inverted can, so the very cold isobutane comes out). Note that isobutane is heaver than air so you can flow it from above and it will sink into the necessary areas.
I remember those locks from my school days. Like most "locked" things, the locks are only to keep the "honest" people "honest".
"This is the LockPicking Lawyer, and today, we're just going to beat a couple of locks into submission and then roast Master Lock for it."
I mean, you could attach one end of a chain to the lock and the other end to the back of your car and just rip it apart with the force of the engine. Is that a terrible lock? Or is that overkill on the part of the intruder?
LPL: "The combination no longer works, but we have this key bypass here. Let's see if that still works."
Me: Oh good. That should be quick. He just bought the locks, so he has the keys handy to make this test effortless, right?
LPL: *pulls out picks*
Me: *dies laughing*
@emmeeemm i know u commented a while ago but still. you need to buy 500+ locks for the masterkey to come with it.
\i have done lots of research
Kids used to open combination locks on school lockers by hitting the dial with the bottom of a book or notebook would generally open them up (especially the cheapies).
In the 80’s, at our junior HS, we were picking these. Folks from Masterlock visited us to show how we we’re picking them. They subsequently improved them but still pickable...
Crowbar?
_Gordon Freeman wants to know your location_
Rise and shine, Freeman. Rise and, shiiiine.
HL3 release date just came out, summer 2020.
You definitely don’t want anyone getting into your footlocker. They might find your jelly doughnut 🍩!!
Damn bro you watched Full Metal Jacket too?
"Holy Jesus. What is that?"
Private snowball
Jelly filled doughnuts are my favorite, nothing beats a jelly filled doughnut
Thats what we did in military service when someone lost their key, but with a shovel
If I recall correctly, you need to turn right once more after the third number. The lock will feel pressure and can be opened. I used these for years in high school; they were such a pain to put in the combination correctly. My bet is that the combination did work, but LPL just tried on some quirks of the design.
Truthfully it did take a lot of force to open the lock. Kudos to Master Lock for actually improving on their old combo design.
"If you ever have a problem and there is a lock you can't open, give the LPL and Bosnian Bill a call"
Cue the A-Team Theme
Even with a crowbar and sledge hammer he still found a way to pick a combination lock lol
Master locks made for high school lockers: can be jimmied open
LPL: good job master lock terrible as usual
Master lock: makes newer locks that can’t be jimmied open
LPL: jimmies open new locks with a sledge hammer
LPL: good job master lock terrible as usual
That's not a sledge hammer: he's swinging it with one hand.
Nah, sledge hammer isn't a description of size but of shape, they come in all kinds of sizes
@@textualarc8534 no, he appears to be using a 10 lb maul, a sledge is usually 25-30lbs and has a long handle.
@@beeble2003 it's a maul, short handled
@@notablynova this man knows his tools
I told my son that locks are not really to keep someone out, but to show forced entry. This is why I am glad Masterlock improved this lock, so it shows forced entry.
My dad used to say, "The only thing a lock is good for is to keep an honest man honest".
Well that's an improvement! Back in Highschool it was pretty common to have people "pop" them open w/the actual rod in a locker. It would leave them compromised and you couldn't tell unless you gave it a yank.
Next: Opening Master Combination Locks With Sardine Breath
Opening locks with my unfulfilled life.
I'm not convinced this isn't John Mulaneys secret channel
Whoa
Sounds like Shane from the Shane co. Where you've got a friend in the diamond business.
I remember having my high school issuing us all these exact locks at the beginning of the year for our lockers and I took 1 look at it and went to the hardware store
This destructive methods is what I absolutely miss the LPL doing! RIP my favorite UA-camr!
Went to school in the 1950's, identical looking locker locks. You could just spin them with a little tension and find the way. Back then, I recall that only half of the positions were used, ie 20 of 40 real positions.
I'm still a fan of bolt cutters. there's just something about sheared shackles like melted butter
I'm not sure if harbor freight has this but I saw a video with someone using a hand-held powered bolt cutters that chews through padlocks easier than standard hand. Bolt cutters
I prefer thermite, but you say tomato...
“When I was in school 25-30 years ago” damn would have never guessed he’s that old
That's not "old", kid.
@D B Past half the life expectancy, so yeah
@D B More than half. Stop trying to act like it isn't. It's past the number where signs of age start to kick in. You sound like you're 45 or something.
@D B I bet
Yeah, I honestly would not have expected LPL to be that age, I thought he was relatively fresh out of law school.
I had one of these in highschool... You could literally shake them open. Lol
i tell police 😠
@@RyanTosh ok
@@Foxfloop Did I write that...I honestly have no idea what happened here lol
@@RyanTosh Aliens..
When I was in high school, there was a popular brand of combo lock called Slaymaker and used by many on their lockers. I discovered that if you gave the bottom of a Slaymaker a good blow with a sneaker, it would pop open. Masterlocks were resistant to that attack.
Okay, I realize I’m seeing this 4 years later, but the comment of whacking these with an M14 sounds EXACTLY like the experiences of Citadel cadets. Go dawgs!
Love how LPL picks the lock instead of using the key that came with the lock!
When is the last time you bought a combination lock WITH a key? As far as I know, that key access is literally only intended for locksmiths.
@@Game-The-System my gym teacher had a key too, so he could open it as well
@@yourmomlmao9638 I'm just guessing that in any situation where a school/company is buying multiple/dozens of combination locks, they would want/demand a few master keys.
I understand why Master would put a secondary opening mechanism (the keyway on the back) on/in a combination lock despite being junk quality, It is disappointing to see it smashed and picked so easily. Keep breaking them! Maybe they'll make a better product one day LOL. The way the metal folded/deformed on the first lock says it all. Thanks for uploading!
The keys are for school/locker applications I think... that way the school can get into any locker easily.
Not only that but I always figured that having the lock as the easiest failure mode means that thieves will never damage the more expensive/difficult to replace lockers.
He's lost it guys, LPL has sniffed too many masterlock fumes and now all he can see is martians
Good ol’ Jontron
My uncle used to tell me that locks keep honest people honest.
You're videos just reinforce that.
Thank you for the content.
True for MasterLocks. Not true for real locks.
@@k5sss from my experience, it's absolutely true.
I love the "gimme my pick back!" at 5:57
The ones we had in school were still shimable, also the master key on the back was super easy to pick, apparently easy to decode too but I never went to the effort, but a hammer or rifle butt was not needed
When I was 10 my dad built the three of us sheet metal strong boxes for Christmas, with Master combo locks. I can still remember the combinations 44 years later: 0-6-28 34-24-14 16-30-8
Now you can steal my Stretch Armstrong.
👍☑💯😂
At the end when he said “let’s see if we can open this up” and reached to the side, I thought he was grabbing for the hammer again
Me & my friends used to take over unused lockers, in highschool. Needless to say, we forgot combos, from time to time. This is how we got back into them.
Back in Middle School between classes we used to run through the hallway and smack these things open with our text books. Haha brought back memories.
These locks don't prevent thieves - but they prevent making a thief of an honest man.
I have a theory that LPL was actually one of the recruits in Full Metal Jacket
He's so use to getting through these picks without the combo the he had to read instructions for a refresher
When I was a kid, some of us did have fun opening some random Master Lock blind, behind their back. Usually, in less than a minute. Often, faster than the owner who know the combination.
0:22 “-I went to a military school-“ now we dont have time to unpack ALL of that
"When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a Master combination lock" -LPL circa 2017 CE
You were in the military?! Thank you for serving, sir!
Wait... all this lock picking skill... were you trained to be a spy?
So many comments on here had me doubting my memory on combo locks, with nobody refuting them. I think his combo entry method was correct. Everyone that is saying he needs to pass the second number once, seems not to have realized that he already did when he made a full round to the first number again. I think going around any more than that would be like resetting the tumblers in reverse. I thought it was more likely that he just mixed up the two combo slips.
One of his replies did say he could open the lock previously using the method he showed in the video.
this kind of opening is quite common for locker looks. i am a bit forgetful some times and in my time in the army i did forget maybe around 3-4 times my key for my locker. there is the multi purpose shovel, that works well as a look picking tool. even better if you have 2...works with every normal lock so far.
These were the exact locks that most kids used on their lockers in high school. You didn't need any tool whatsoever. Almost every guy knew that all you had to do was lift the lock up in the air, so the dial would be facing the locker and the lock was upside down, and then a well placed kick after you let go of the lock, before it fell back down. Bam, worked every time.
Binding side of a heavy book used to work
@@chrisalbanese6243 someone should write a book, "101 Ways to Bust a Master's Lock With Little to No Effort"
When you said without picking and without manipulation I just imagine the lock sitting in a chair in an interrogation room with two guys sweating with their sleeves rolled up and a back table filled with torture devices shouting “we can do this all day”
thats not how it woriks, did u watch vido? he explain 4 stupif ppl like u 😠
Thank you for this entertaining tests. Great to see the anti-shim bolt - never seen that design before. Could it be that you missed one turn when you tried the combo?
Potti314 I had wondered that too!?! Nick.
Possible, but not likely. I opened them fine before using the same method.
Had these on my locker room locker and a kid needed to use my spare cleats, he jokingly gave it a nice tag and it popped open
We had these locks on our high school lockers. Often the combination didn't work, but a whack with a thick book on top of the lock, as you did with a hammer, would pop them open immediately.
This is not what I'm used to seeing here 😂 but most importantly, thank you for your service LPL.