Handcuff Key Incompatibility & The TOOOL Ultimate Handcuff Key Demo / Explanation
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- A demo of problematic handcuff key incompatibilities and the special TOOOL Ultimate Handcuff Key you can make yourself!
00:54 Start of standard handcuff key incompatibilities demo section
06:49 Explanation of the TOOOL Ultimate Handcuff Key & specific usage instructions
08:30 Start of TOOOL key demonstration.
Scroll down in this description to a link and explanation on the actual dimensions needed to make the key.
As someone who is into locksport (recreational lockpicking [of own locks]), I have a case full of lockpicks, padlocks and handcuffs. I have noticed over time that not all handcuff keys are equal and some brands work in more models while some don't work. It can be very confusing and frustrating.
This video demonstrates how different brands of handcuffs' keys are not always universal. This can cause problems when one person needs to unlock the handcuffs of someone else who uses a different brand. This is more of a problem in America where different people like to use different brands. Also if someone was held hostage and an officer attempts to free them from handcuffs, if non-standard brands were used, there is less of a guarantee that their key would work.
Step in, the TOOOL (The Open Organization Of Lockpickers) Ultimate Handcuff Key. It's dimensions are such, that it can operate a very wide array of brands and models of handcuffs from all around the world, including some high security models such as ASP 2 split pawl model and Yuil's 2 split pawl model. There is a bit of a trick to using it with handcuffs that use 3 pawl bars, which is covered and explained in this video.
Sometimes emergency personnel need to free a hostage or captive who was handcuffed with nonstandard handcuffs, or are called to a house to free someone from, erm.. evening activities that went wrong because a key was lost or only the wrong key was accessible and thus useless. Plus situations, particularly abroad, where abductions of tourists have happened and someone might want to free them self. What ever the situation is, a TOOOL Ultimate Handcuff Key is the solution to having a single key that is the most compatible with the most number of handcuffs available on this planet.
Here is an image of the official specification: i.imgur.com/OV...
Note, the 0.3mm slit is the minimum width, it can be up to a 1mm gap or smaller. Plus the 5.5mm needs to be very very very slightly filed to be approx 5.48mm in order to successfully operate British police TCH handcuffs and HIATT handcuffs, due to their design where some metal can in many cases take up room in the keyway.
If you can get either a standard Smith & Wesson, Alcyon or Yuil key, the chances are you can use tools to file and cut the key down to fit these dimensions. It requires some work and accurate measuring (and testing if possible) but once completed you have a very compatible key. Although this key is not best suited to be your go-to key if you have triple pawl handcuffs like UK police ones, because it requires a technique in order to catch all 3 pawl bars with the shortened key. This is an "In case of emergency, break glass" kind of key. A key to keep as a backup. However if you have single or double pawl handcuffs it would probably work just as well as your regular key. Only you would know, by testing it.
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Also you may like to check RUclips for a talk that Deviant Ollam from TOOOL did on this key. You can search for TOOOL Ultimate Handcuff Key or TOOOL Perfect Handcuff Key.
Enjoy.
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Have you tried starting from a TCH key? In the video the TCH seemed a good fit in all the keyways and would only need a slight shortening of the keyflag and a slot.
It does work. S&W key is the best (plus looks nicer) but a TCH key will have almost the same inter-operability if you do all the modifications that you'd do to a S&W key.
Also, please see my new video on the Kyung Chang issue. The creator of the TOOOL key commented on the video. It shows a non-tall-bit key such as TCH or ZAK Tool should in theory be as good as the TOOOL, if Kyung Chang were the only real issue that the TOOOL key was trying to protect against with the dimensions of it. I blew that out of the water.
I have this problem of not engaging all 3 ratchets on some old Hiatt cuffs in my collection. Does anyone know where one can get the a key that that has a wider blade that can work properly?
You just pull the key out slightly, I did demonstrate this on the video. But this key is a one size fits all kind of emergency key. Standard keys for a brand will always work better but if you want 1 key that has the highest chance of opening a cuff, you can't get better than this type of key.
Does this key work with ASP triple pawl lock modules? (green, not the one that requires their special key)
It does indeed. In the same way I demonstrated with the TCH which also has 3 pawls, you may need to pull the key slightly out and try 3 or 4 times but it absolutely does work. It is the most capable key I have ever seen.
3:32 someone has screamed 😂
Yeah not much I can do about it lol. It's from a few doors around the corner. I don't care if it's their kids screaming while playing, the parents watching scary movies and screaming, their cat brings in dead animals and they scream when they see it, I don't care... It is annoying as FUCK!!! 🤣
It’s okay I thank you for your reply. I actually thought it was from a tv 📺
Does it have to be a S&W to mosify, or do the cheaper ASR work, as well?
The only 2 keys I have found which work are Smith & Wesson and Alcyon. You might be able to use Kyung Chang but that would take way more time to file them down.
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that does seem like a good tool to keep tucked in the back of your waist just in case of a terrible emergency situation
Indeed, it works exceptionally well with many handcuffs from all over the world. Of course not all, there are some with very unique keyways but all the modern standard style, including some high security ones it works. There's no single key which can open more cuffs than that one. You just need a couple little files and a little junior hacksaw and specifically a Smith & Wesson key and some way to measure it as best as you can. The keys are great quality too, some people in the lock picking community wear them as jewellery: pbs.twimg.com/media/DoT74QiUcAAS4xq.jpg:large Although in her example it's a non-modified one just as it comes.
@@techwg wearing it as jewelry is smart :-)
@@shelbicle thanks 😊 that's me!
@@stevosrockinmom do you mean that you wear it as jewelry?
It is on my necklace with my YubiKey. A reminder about my lockpicking skills and how they won't improve if I don't practise. Plus it could be used in an emergency,
Is a modified plastic key capable of such tasks, like a Sparrows key, etc.?
Only if the dimensions are adequate. Many keys have a key flag which does not stick out far enough. Of course you could use a junior hacksaw to cut a little split in it and it would work with some keys that require a split, but it won't be as capable as a key customised from a Smith & Wesson or an Alcyon key. Also, plastic keys are not that strong or reusable. So cutting one may weaken it greatly even more than with normal use.
@@techwg I guess it's good that I customized a S&W. The reason I ask about the plastic ones is due to their concealability. No metal detection, etc.. Thanks for the response.
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Hey Boss where do I get one of those ?
They are on eBay right now in the UK www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254797275127
@@techwg I live in the US .
Where can you buy one?
Unless they are on sale on eBay or something by people like me who make them, you cannot buy them. You have to buy Smith & Wesson keys and get the specs from the description and file and cut them down to the right spec. I do have 2 or 3 left I could sell but during this lockdown I took them off eBay UK. Mine are only for sale in the UK
They are on eBay right now in the UK www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254797275127
Where can I order that?
You have to order a Smith & Wesson key and use diamond files and a hacksaw to make the modifications.
They are on eBay right now in the UK www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254797275127
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3:31 You better use those cuffs on the guy who is murdering that woman.
Wtf is that
What are you talking about?
Oh I hear it. There's a few families in the area and they are always messing about. Maybe a wasp stung them. I have learned to tune out all the kids screaming and dogs barking in the area.
pls make a video with one single modern united states handcuff.. they are more than 3x as wide and have been that way for over 15 years...
What do you mean? The Smith & Wesson is one of the most widely used American handcuffs that is used in the USA today. In fact the TOOOL key starts off as a Smith & Wesson key. I have tested these keys in a great many brands and it works very well. Also what do you mean by "3x as wide"? What is wider and compared to what?
@@techwg i have a modern smith and wesson key they are small. all cops in the united states use a 1/4" key now. the tiny s&w key wont even touch the smaller lock, let alone the larger one.
@@techwg if you need info on actual modern pd cuffs i can help you out but you seem to be mistaken. s&w is the most widely used in private security but not police.
@@lylechipperson3407 I think you are talking about model M104 which uses a thinner smaller key. That is only used in a correctional environment because the keys are entirely different and normal keys, including the TOOOL key, will not work in them. I have most of the standard American handcuff models Smith & Wesson, Peerless, ASP, Chicago and they all operate with the TOOOL key, except the high security Smith & Wesson which use s smaller thinner key where the bit on the end has a hook shape to it. If you have info on a particular model I am not familiar with I would love to see, but I have quite an extensive collection of cuffs from around the world and have had more and sold when I was down on money. I would be surprised if a nation-wide change in the USA had been implemented. I would have heard about it.