2 Methods to bypass similar doors with motion sensors to exit instead of crash-bars: -take a can of compressed air with the small tube, hold upside down and spray a cloud between the doors up towards the sensor. -take a large piece of cardboard with a "flap" and slide up between the doors.
One guy showed me a similar trick was to take a stick or other long tool, put a towel or rag on the end of it and stick it through the doors and try to activate that sensor. Usually works
Bill, i just wanted to say thanks, for getting me into lock sport, and being someone we all can look up to. This is my new youtube name. And im just starting to exchange challenge locks with others on youtube. Im sure ill end up making videos. It seams inevitable.......And it all started with your videos. So thanks!.
Just pinning locks with custom pins, and trading them with other pickers. Gonna be getting a challenge lock pretty soon from Bobby Keys, and I'm sure he's gonna want a video of me picking it. And thats why i say I'm sure ill be doing videos eventually. .....But what you got in mind.? I might be willing to trade stock locks too depending on the situation if thats what you mean.
I have one custom pinned American ptc12 on the way but the rest are stock. American 1106 with nasty spring tension, abus 72/40 6 pin with spools (I like swapping those 2 cores in each other's bodies), couple of master 150's master 400B (plastic tag out "training" lock) master 532, and the obligatory cheapies. All but cheapies have at least one key and most are new.
Well it seams we pretty much have the same locks. Most likely cause we watch the same channel haha. I got a few 72/40s. A 80ti, and a bunch of Americans. But mine are 1100s..... the locks i make are mostly Schlage. And i cut security pins with files and a hand grinder..i like Schlage. i really want to get my hands on a Schlage Primus.
Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU!!!!! "building managers don't like having to check their doors".... OH YES.... and I can PERSONALLY testify to the struggle of secure vs. "I want YOU to make it secure, but I don't want to have to do my job"... and don't get me started on the arguments about the cost of a coordinated closer system... (which, you really ONLY need if you don't want to do tests and maintenance occasionally on standard closers... all it takes is an hex wrench, a short step ladder, and about ten minutes, IF they're REALLY out of tune WTF is the big deal???... other than laziness of course.) I made something very similar to these myself years ago on the fly out of an MCOT tool (desperation played a part as well) to do an unlock where I could just NOT pick it (STILL don't know why, drives me nuts not knowing)... Liked the idea so much I still carry it in my vehicle... I've shown customers this exploit, I don't know HOW many times trying to make my case for coordinated closer systems, or at the VERY least an addition to a building maintenance checks (closers are NOT hard to time properly, no special tools needed, but they have to be checked) so that a guard can be installed.... They always say the same thing.... "well, but you're a locksmith, it's your JOB to know this stuff.... it's not like it's public knowledge.... Meanwhile, when I "invented" my version of the tool, that wasn't "magic locksmith knowledge"... just problems solving (and again, desperation) Here it is folks... on youtube... Free and easily accessible... for free... to everyone... and the tool is both easy to buy and easy to make (something that will get the job done)... AND requires NO special skill or practice to use... The days of "security by obscurity" are over.... The genie's out of the box, the tools are available to anyone... Get the good hardware, properly installed, and follow your security plan... OR eventually, you're gonna get compromised. THANK YOU for making video that makes the argument a LITTLE more winable for me in the future... (hopefully)
3:44 A pair of commercial doors with Rim Panic hardware will have a mullion bar in the middle, blocking the bypass tool. Look for doors with surface mounted or concealed vertical rods. The push bars are different.
Bill encouraging coffee aquisition!!! Very nice 👍🙂 I just saw it listed and read exactly what Bill mentioned. they say if you don't know what it is for you don't need it ROFL 🤣
Many pass doors of that type have a REX (Request to EXit sensor) so that push to exit senses a person and shunts the alarm. By opening the door push-bar but not triggering the REX an audible alarm usually sounds.
love your information, to look at this tool in a catalog, and they say if ya don't know what it does, ya don't need it is bull. I want to know for GP. Thank you for sharing Mr Bill
Fantastic Video Bill +Bosnianbill . I love how the stay legal just went out the window when it came down to the coffee. LOL. Keep up the great work. Nick.
1:45 There is a common piece of door hardware that does this task. Google "fire door coordinator" Astragals are common as they allow for positive seal against smoke/oxygen suppy
There are firedoors without the gap though, if you need more security: At my workplace, the door-closing mechanism has a lever that will not allow the door with the gap-cover to fully close until the other side has closed, thereby activating the lever and releasing the gap-cover-door. That adds another mechanism that can break of course, so it's always a tradeoff depending on what you're protecting and how nice it should look. And even with our extra secure doors at my work, we are required to lock everything with business value into cupboards, so it's not like those doors are your only line of security. Except for the genius who forgot to properly secure their gorram coffee!
that dark majic is good but if you like dark roast check out double black diamond. keurig killed it with that coffee .if you're a coffee guy you gotta check it out
used to be able to get into the front door of the dorms by sliding a piece of paper between the doors towards the top to activate the motion sender from the inside to simulate someone trying to leave and unlock the door
I realize I'm over a year late on this. But, at my office they place the motion sensor in the ceiling on the indoors side of the exit sign. You would need a fairly long stick to activate it. Also, no crash bar oddly. If the power goes out the doors unlock as the electromagnet loses power.
don't need one, I've opened many firedoor pushbars with a plumbers brazing rod (three bend's, first two at 90 degrees and the third bent down at 45 degrees at 90 degrees to the others). cheap as chips and available at any hardware store.
Sparrows was doing some clever marketing by saying if you don't know what it is, you don't need it. No one knows what ddt stands for here, until they go looking, because they were told it was none of their business. A subtle challenge, guaranteed to create some interest.
On the second crash door, the bolt is recessed from the edge of the door. My guess would be this allows the door to cover part of the post, hence no straight gap to put the DDT through. Is that why you showed it with an open door, Bill? ;) If the door covers the post on all sides (on the top and the bottom too), a way of opening is drilling a hole underneath the crash bar, sticking an umbrella through that hole, opening it and pulling. Do you know of a non-destructive way of accomplishing the same?
No, I only showed it on the single door to show how to "feel" the position of the tool. I did not have another double fire door in that building to demo on. This tool will NOT work on single fire doors that have a door flange.
Bill how would this work on the standard jam style door frame like the wood one you showed? How does that tool navigate around the jam? You demonstrated it with the door open but I don't see it working with the door closed....
I can't help thinking that the bypass tool is really just a fancy wire coat-hanger. :P Can't say I've seen many doors fitted with crash bars in South Africa.
This will open the door, but a good system would still alarm. The door alarm is always active, but when you stand next to the door, on the inside, to push the crash bar you trip a sensor that shunts the alarm while you exit. Using this type of bypass, from the outside, will not shunt the alarm. You'll get in but the alarm will trip. . . Stay safe, stay legal.
Door coordinators??? Lot of code issues with magnetic locks on doors considered a means of egress. The codes vary but that tool is pretty neat. The trick is a paddle to trigger PIRs (passive infra red sensors) that release the locks (REX) for people egressing.
1:02 - I had thought that in the event of a power failure the doors would UNlock, not "lock down the doors". I know the systems can be setup either way. I had thought the code, at least in most of the U.S., was to unlock the doors. Does anyone know?
What if it’s a single door? I came across one the other day and it had me wondering. You obviously can’t use this but it’s a single door against a frame that can’t fit this tool but it has a crash bar on the other side.
We used to use something similar to open dead bolted hotel rooms, but from the bottom. Anyone guess how a hotel room could be dead bolted with no one home?
I saw a documentary of a master criminal who would take a hole saw from the outside of the door approximately just above the panic bar Jenny was sticking umbrella into the whole press the button the unbrella with open up from the inside of the door then he would pull in the umbrella
those aren't maglocks...they're balanced magnetic switches (BMS) that let the owners know someone's breaking in when the BMS breaks contact through the access control...the locks on those doors are mechanical at the top...
Most of these bypasses won't work on my home door. It has an overlap, two of them. Well maybe this isn't the right spot to tell you this but it just occurred to me now, and I counted the overlaps.
Good video but one mistake. Magnetic locks are "fail-safe", not "fail-secure". This means when there is a power failure the doors will unlock. The electro-magnetic locks require power to lock.
I am a construction superintendent and do not install any doors like that. our double doors have center posts similar to a falcon f4023 center mullion and the single doors have conventional frame stops. also at least in texas there are emergency release red "mushroom" buttons that disrupt power to magnetic locks and the rx device is not required to be integral to the exit hardware. This is in coordination with a pir request to exit inside the door.
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That explains why there is never any good office coffee.
"stay safe, stay leg..." "oh is that coffee?"
good one!
Not only a demo on door by-passes, but we see a crime in progress, coffee pilfering! Outstanding.
2 Methods to bypass similar doors with motion sensors to exit instead of crash-bars:
-take a can of compressed air with the small tube, hold upside down and spray a cloud between the doors up towards the sensor.
-take a large piece of cardboard with a "flap" and slide up between the doors.
One guy showed me a similar trick was to take a stick or other long tool, put a towel or rag on the end of it and stick it through the doors and try to activate that sensor. Usually works
I'm liking this new series "How to break into the DOD".
This and the ripcord are both great. Sparrows is really on the cutting edge these days.
All that for a decent coffee ☕️
It is getting cold out 🤷🏻♂️🤣
Good to see the humour bill
The end made me giggle. I have not laughed in such a manner in some time. Thanks, and thank you for keep ing us up to date on new findings.
Where is the Stay legal part?
Erim Emre Baran he went rogue
Coffee: 1
Legality: 0
Exchanged for coffee part ..
Erim Emre Baran Where's the fun in staying legal?
Screw that when there's executive coffee on the line.
Great review. As a locksmith I have had to make my own tool similar to that one. I may buy the Sparrows one to test it myself.
It's unbelievable how informative your vids are. Thanks for posting.
Bill, i just wanted to say thanks, for getting me into lock sport, and being someone we all can look up to. This is my new youtube name. And im just starting to exchange challenge locks with others on youtube. Im sure ill end up making videos. It seams inevitable.......And it all started with your videos. So thanks!.
Jp Mcpinning what are you looking at trading? I've been interested in the same idea but am not sure how to go about it.
Just pinning locks with custom pins, and trading them with other pickers. Gonna be getting a challenge lock pretty soon from Bobby Keys, and I'm sure he's gonna want a video of me picking it. And thats why i say I'm sure ill be doing videos eventually. .....But what you got in mind.? I might be willing to trade stock locks too depending on the situation if thats what you mean.
I have one custom pinned American ptc12 on the way but the rest are stock. American 1106 with nasty spring tension, abus 72/40 6 pin with spools (I like swapping those 2 cores in each other's bodies), couple of master 150's master 400B (plastic tag out "training" lock) master 532, and the obligatory cheapies. All but cheapies have at least one key and most are new.
Well it seams we pretty much have the same locks. Most likely cause we watch the same channel haha. I got a few 72/40s. A 80ti, and a bunch of Americans. But mine are 1100s..... the locks i make are mostly Schlage. And i cut security pins with files and a hand grinder..i like Schlage. i really want to get my hands on a Schlage Primus.
So much for the "Stay safe, Stay legal" bit.
"If you don't know what this is you don't need it 😂
Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU!!!!!
"building managers don't like having to check their doors".... OH YES.... and I can PERSONALLY testify to the struggle of secure vs. "I want YOU to make it secure, but I don't want to have to do my job"... and don't get me started on the arguments about the cost of a coordinated closer system... (which, you really ONLY need if you don't want to do tests and maintenance occasionally on standard closers... all it takes is an hex wrench, a short step ladder, and about ten minutes, IF they're REALLY out of tune WTF is the big deal???... other than laziness of course.)
I made something very similar to these myself years ago on the fly out of an MCOT tool (desperation played a part as well) to do an unlock where I could just NOT pick it (STILL don't know why, drives me nuts not knowing)... Liked the idea so much I still carry it in my vehicle...
I've shown customers this exploit, I don't know HOW many times trying to make my case for coordinated closer systems, or at the VERY least an addition to a building maintenance checks (closers are NOT hard to time properly, no special tools needed, but they have to be checked) so that a guard can be installed....
They always say the same thing.... "well, but you're a locksmith, it's your JOB to know this stuff.... it's not like it's public knowledge.... Meanwhile, when I "invented" my version of the tool, that wasn't "magic locksmith knowledge"... just problems solving (and again, desperation)
Here it is folks... on youtube... Free and easily accessible... for free... to everyone... and the tool is both easy to buy and easy to make (something that will get the job done)... AND requires NO special skill or practice to use...
The days of "security by obscurity" are over.... The genie's out of the box, the tools are available to anyone... Get the good hardware, properly installed, and follow your security plan... OR eventually, you're gonna get compromised.
THANK YOU for making video that makes the argument a LITTLE more winable for me in the future... (hopefully)
3:44 A pair of commercial doors with Rim Panic hardware will have a mullion bar in the middle, blocking the bypass tool. Look for doors with surface mounted or concealed vertical rods. The push bars are different.
Bill encouraging coffee aquisition!!! Very nice 👍🙂 I just saw it listed and read exactly what Bill mentioned. they say if you don't know what it is for you don't need it ROFL 🤣
Many pass doors of that type have a REX (Request to EXit sensor) so that push to exit senses a person and shunts the alarm.
By opening the door push-bar but not triggering the REX an audible alarm usually sounds.
Just what we need, more panic inducing noises in the middle of an emergency 🙏
funny, I seen it on Sparrows yesterday and had no idea..guess I need one now...
love your information, to look at this tool in a catalog, and they say if ya don't know what it does, ya don't need it is bull. I want to know for GP. Thank you for sharing Mr Bill
That's neat! Very similar to automotive entry concept on most vehicles. Except for bmws. They gotta be different.
Fantastic Video Bill +Bosnianbill . I love how the stay legal just went out the window when it came down to the coffee. LOL. Keep up the great work. Nick.
Lol..!!! 🤣 LOVED the end of the video how y'gotta get into a place for some coffee..!!!! ☕☕🤣
I'm just happy I was able to make on of these. Tested it on a door that was open wide but haven't done so on a door this is made for though.
I was looking for a video on this tool a couple of days ago perfect timing.
1:45 There is a common piece of door hardware that does this task. Google "fire door coordinator" Astragals are common as they allow for positive seal against smoke/oxygen suppy
Thanks Bill
Bill, on the road! Fun!
One heck of a good reason to get past that door gotta have coffee
I see how you are, using your skills to steal creamer! Great video!!
I really enjoy your refreshing style. Thank you.
There are firedoors without the gap though, if you need more security: At my workplace, the door-closing mechanism has a lever that will not allow the door with the gap-cover to fully close until the other side has closed, thereby activating the lever and releasing the gap-cover-door.
That adds another mechanism that can break of course, so it's always a tradeoff depending on what you're protecting and how nice it should look. And even with our extra secure doors at my work, we are required to lock everything with business value into cupboards, so it's not like those doors are your only line of security. Except for the genius who forgot to properly secure their gorram coffee!
Said mechanism is incredibly simple too
Haha really liked this video, you should do more out of the lab type of videos =)
So much for staying legal...
That entirely depends on the actions of the viewer.
@@bryanp.1327 he usually says "stay legal" at the end of his videos, but he didn't say it I'm this one
Thought we were going to catch your face in the reflection!
Good work
Glad you're back
I love this foo
that dark majic is good but if you like dark roast check out double black diamond. keurig killed it with that coffee .if you're a coffee guy you gotta check it out
Nice demo, Bill.
used to be able to get into the front door of the dorms by sliding a piece of paper between the doors towards the top to activate the motion sender from the inside to simulate someone trying to leave and unlock the door
I realize I'm over a year late on this. But, at my office they place the motion sensor in the ceiling on the indoors side of the exit sign. You would need a fairly long stick to activate it. Also, no crash bar oddly. If the power goes out the doors unlock as the electromagnet loses power.
Love it, always a pleasure Bill, *****
Hilarious ending! Love from Canada!
don't need one, I've opened many firedoor pushbars with a plumbers brazing rod (three bend's, first two at 90 degrees and the third bent down at 45 degrees at 90 degrees to the others).
cheap as chips and available at any hardware store.
Executive coffee is the best coffee! =D
That ending though! hahaha
Sparrows was doing some clever marketing by saying if you don't know what it is, you don't need it. No one knows what ddt stands for here, until they go looking, because they were told it was none of their business.
A subtle challenge, guaranteed to create some interest.
We call that a "J-tool" in the fire service. I've never seen one actually used though. Perdy neet
J tool has a thumb turner on it to disable deadbolts. This is the ddt, not the same thing fireboi
Nice practical video.
I love these BosnianLockTubeLockBillLab videos PICK A FACKIN NAME ALREADY
awesome idea but not sure how it would work on double doors with panic bars and a center post, the center post would block the tool
Cool tool
I like that tool Bill, nice stuff buddy.
Thanks Bill!
On the second crash door, the bolt is recessed from the edge of the door. My guess would be this allows the door to cover part of the post, hence no straight gap to put the DDT through. Is that why you showed it with an open door, Bill? ;)
If the door covers the post on all sides (on the top and the bottom too), a way of opening is drilling a hole underneath the crash bar, sticking an umbrella through that hole, opening it and pulling. Do you know of a non-destructive way of accomplishing the same?
No, I only showed it on the single door to show how to "feel" the position of the tool. I did not have another double fire door in that building to demo on. This tool will NOT work on single fire doors that have a door flange.
you didn't say stay safe stay legal!!!!!!!! *mind explodes*
Great video! Awesome tool
THANKS FOR SHOWING THE GREAT VIDEO. 💥💥💥💥💥
Lmao, as a working locksmith I could definitely see myself going to jail for unauthorized coffee procurement 😆😆😆
Have never seen a jam-less crash bar door like this. what would work on a standard crashbar door w/o that gap?
Is that Bosnian Towers?
great vid bill
spencer wells how would you know? You didn't even finish watching it
Botsnatch so im a fan all of his vids are great go bill go
Great Bypass Tool ;)
he stole the executive coffee that's not legal 😂
Perhaps he is an executive
Well I did seriously think he had some kind of link to that building. But maybe that's why he didn't say "stay safe and stay legal"
he has a card for the glass door he bypassed.
Thank you. Keys too. You are the only one that seems to have noticed that...
Bwahahaha! seriously?!
cool tool, thanks Bill!
Lol glad you can get permission to play in these places they don't like most pickers asking to play with there locks and security lol
Bill how would this work on the standard jam style door frame like the
wood one you showed? How does that tool navigate around the jam? You demonstrated it with the door open but I don't see it working with the door closed....
New England Drones you just make the gap bigger.
Usually you have to make the gap larger by using an air shim or plastic wedge. Basically spread the door jam.
Mystery of the disappearing coffee solved, I'm sure. I can only imagine the questions asked upon your request to make that video... lol
I can't help thinking that the bypass tool is really just a fancy wire coat-hanger. :P
Can't say I've seen many doors fitted with crash bars in South Africa.
enjoy the coffee lol
Criminals live this!
This will open the door, but a good system would still alarm. The door alarm is always active, but when you stand next to the door, on the inside, to push the crash bar you trip a sensor that shunts the alarm while you exit. Using this type of bypass, from the outside, will not shunt the alarm. You'll get in but the alarm will trip. . . Stay safe, stay legal.
I want that coffee.
love the videos
awesome!
Door coordinators??? Lot of code issues with magnetic locks on doors considered a means of egress. The codes vary but that tool is pretty neat. The trick is a paddle to trigger PIRs (passive infra red sensors) that release the locks (REX) for people egressing.
forget to stay legal, coffee is on the line
1:02 - I had thought that in the event of a power failure the doors would UNlock, not "lock down the doors". I know the systems can be setup either way. I had thought the code, at least in most of the U.S., was to unlock the doors. Does anyone know?
Depends on the security of the building. Most higher security buildings and things lockdown to prevent someone killing the power and just walking in.
the most usual situation is to unlock when no power.
The door has to let you out, not let you in.
Nice intro
as close as we will get to a bosnian bill face reveal xD
will not work on the second bar type
What about soda/snack machine locks?
Crash bar door has a lip Then that took won’t work. Door jam lip contour. What’s the alternative?
What if it’s a single door? I came across one the other day and it had me wondering. You obviously can’t use this but it’s a single door against a frame that can’t fit this tool but it has a crash bar on the other side.
I need to make me one for the FD.
We used to use something similar to open dead bolted hotel rooms, but from the bottom. Anyone guess how a hotel room could be dead bolted with no one home?
Bill was only worried about others safety during zombie attack. Zombies would never test Bill. They know better 😂
Hahaha face at 1.09!!
So for the people who have doors like this, is there any way to protect against it other than adding a steel plate in the middle?
It's a give and take situation, you compromise convenience for safety which becomes a disadvantage in case of an emergency
I saw a documentary of a master criminal who would take a hole saw from the outside of the door approximately just above the panic bar Jenny was sticking umbrella into the whole press the button the unbrella with open up from the inside of the door then he would pull in the umbrella
Interesting herculite hardware.
Whatever happened to Bosnian Bill? Did the Lockpocking Lawyer learn enough to replace him?
Go bill go🤣
those aren't maglocks...they're balanced magnetic switches (BMS) that let the owners know someone's breaking in when the BMS breaks contact through the access control...the locks on those doors are mechanical at the top...
Must not be any CCTV... I'd like to hear you explain, "I was just filming a RUclips how-to video..."
At least he did not take the good coffee mug.
Stay Legal. Stay Safe. Grab all the coffee you can.
Most of these bypasses won't work on my home door. It has an overlap, two of them. Well maybe this isn't the right spot to tell you this but it just occurred to me now, and I counted the overlaps.
does this work with the aircan to bypass a request to exit sensor
There is no exit sensor.
Good video but one mistake. Magnetic locks are "fail-safe", not "fail-secure". This means when there is a power failure the doors will unlock. The electro-magnetic locks require power to lock.
Both are available.
Aloof Ness Depends on the door & occupiers of the area.
no such thing as a fail secure electro magnet. only way that is possible is with battery backup but even that only lasts a short while.
Thanks. Apparently I mis-remembered from shopping for one years ago.
fail secure electro magnet:
pin - spring - magnet
I am a construction superintendent and do not install any doors like that. our double doors have center posts similar to a falcon f4023 center mullion and the single doors have conventional frame stops. also at least in texas there are emergency release red "mushroom" buttons that disrupt power to magnetic locks and the rx device is not required to be integral to the exit hardware. This is in coordination with a pir request to exit inside the door.