LTNetjak I saw it. Heck, before I saw it, I thought it was going to be one of those small ones, that you insert into the card slot, and that it would “fool” a card reader into letting you into the room.
Bosnian Bill and LPL are perhaps the only lock picking youtubers where if they say “it’s not a fluke” I can believe them unconditionally. They have proven themselves time and time again, and I know they are trustworthy.
@@SlimThrull that would be a bullet (or cannonball, or thing thrown at high speeds to harm someone) a grenade needs to explode and basically shoot out bullets (the bullets being the broken fragments of the casing)
@@SlimThrull nah more like a railgun or cannonball. It would travel extremely quickly and make a giant hole in whatever it hits, but it still wouldn’t explode.
"Isn't locking the window like that dangerous?" "Well a little, yeah, but in this case you have to measure the security over the fire safety." "Well is the lock at least a secure lock?" "Oh god no, you can open that shit up with a paperclip if you had to"
@@Shoaib_Khan85 so if all LPL's videos where him filming his ceiling for 3 to 9.59 minutes without saying a word, you would still binge watch the videos in the same way?
@@lesliewessling4714 LPL should do a series of shorts, wherein there's no intro or outro, just picking the lock - I can see him making many videos less than 10 seconds long.
I can already see a conversation at the airport: Sir why are you carrying a lock picking set on your travel. Are you a professional thief? Oh no sir, its just my fire hazard safety tool.
The simple way to avoid this is to carry more than just a lock pick, carry a variety of small tools. The lockpick set on its own stands out, but as part of an assorted kit it would likely go unnoticed by the poorly trained and likely inexperienced eye of the TSA agent.
@@MsDemzon In Poland it's actually illegal to even own lockpicks, unless you have locksmith license or something. Oh yeah, and as a lockpick, besides ones made for that purpose, count's ANYTHING else than dedicated key, if is inserted in any lock. Actually it's teoretically illegal to lockpick YOUR OWN locks. So yeah, good luck respecting laws like that
@@pw1187 Okay, but i assume that you dont wear shoes when you are sleeping and that they arent right beside your bed. Kicking that window bare foot or with socks will really hurt and bleed alot
In the uk these are sometimes nick named the suicide locks. They’re put on windows of high level buildings, particularly common in university accommodation
@@HessianLikeTheFabric I'm 99% certain that anyone who's suicidal enough to throw themselves out of a window only would get more depressed from not being able to do so Which whilst it might save _some_ lives probably just ends up with more people doing other acts of self harm including of course death as well So... I doubt that realistically these locks have actually 'saved' anyone's lives, at most it meant that it took longer for someone to kill themselves and hopefully in the meanwhile get help from supportive friends So... I wouldn't say these locks even succeeded in that regard as they likely have caused more pain and death than they have prevented... :/ Addressing symptoms and ignoring root causes _never_ helps anyonw, at most it just make things drag on for longer... :/
@The Hessian in a university dorm (having been a student) I feel this is really a “stop the very drunk student accidentally falling out the window” lock.
Would you say that this wafer method of securing the core inside the lock is the least expensive? (Asking for a friend on the design team at Master Lock)
That is the thing the really surprises me. He moved the retaining wafer from inside the lock key-way. It could have been constructed fully on the outer rim... Essentially it is a master key wafer as demonstrated. A lock, like a hand cuff lock... just a retainer, not really security. Maybe, its just meant to keep the kids inside who can't reach the door knob.
@@vermeilanimation3706 I, for one, weld all my doors shut every single night. It's the only way you can be certain that you're safe. Just being responsible and using common sense, honestly. 🙃🙃🙃
The paint has not worn off of the countersunk indents in the mounting holes so I dont believe that is the case, a tight screw would have stripped it to the metal. Its likely someone like LPL could find the lock online by description alone but the brand could also just be written somewhere we havent seen
"I had the unfortunate pleasure of staying in a ground floor hotel room." Luckily, the 8th floor rooms do not have this lock on them, so you can jump right out.
In the military, there is actually a holiday briefing given before big travel times like Thanksgiving and such; in which you are advised to always ask for a hotel room on the third floor or above, but at least two floors below top floor(to avoid rope from the roof attacks).
@@johns9652 That's quite common in Russia, with its 5-floor houses. The 3rd one was actually called "jewish floor" because of being the safest floor for anybody wealthy and greedy.
@@johns9652 Is it common for military personnel to be attacked on vacation? I suppose I could see higher ranking officers being targets, but is average joe really gonna get attacked in his hotel room?
@@Piggywhiff I really don't know any statistics for such things, however from what I've seen personally the only crimes targeting US personnel were petty, like street scammers playing 3 card monte, guys catching VD from uhh Red Light areas, etc. The Brass always acted as if there were a terrorist attack about to happen around every corner though. Not sure about the other branches of service, but in the Marines the chance of terrorist activity or other mayhem was an excuse for dress code requirements even. Marines are ALWAYS required to wear a belt, on or off duty. The logic being that one can use a belt as a tourniquet or other emergency. One of those "Hollywood documentaries" The Electric Monk mentioned seized on this fact to have the characters escape some hostile situation by wrapping their belts over a cable and zip-lining to safety.
LPL rocks! Point of Code which I study and practice for over several decades: The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101 Fire Life Safety Code that deals with “Exit-way egress” does not typically recognize windows as a point of fire or emergency egress in this 7/8” thick book. Full width and height windows openable are discussed in school room applications as alternative egress points but may not be reliable in snow covered seasons as there is no paved or cement walkways to keep clear in all seasons. Even revolving doors are commonly not an exit way and have standard push bar exit next to them as the “marked exit”. Overhead doors are also not a point of egress. These self elected supplemental egress points like a window are perhaps options for the physically able and thin enough to use if trapped. The Code does require fire rated doors on your Hotel room - the idea being, if you were trapped and had no ability to use the hallways as a point of egress, you shelter in place (wet towels and cover the bottom of the door edge, etc). Most modern Hotel rooms are also fire rated for the same reason. It’s based on being rescued typically within the one hour rating. Modern fire alarms detect fire early and common evacuations take place yet these extremes of being trapped in rooms are anomaly’s typically quite close to the fire itself or severely blocked by smoke. What is an exit way: The ADA disability Act requires a minimum of 32” clear width when fully opened in all doorways (48” max). Many internet references say 36” and that is moronically wrong. Doors are typically are 36” and the door frame stops on both sides are a half-inch each, so most doorways have 35” clear, but when the swing of the door won’t let it swing all the way open (lets say worst case 90 degrees) the door reduces the opening on the hinge side by the door thickness on 2 3/4”, but not the door stop on the hinge side, so subtract 1/2” and that leaves an obstruction of 2 1/8” plus about a 1/4” for the door gap on the hinge swing side and that’s 33” clear. In tight or restricted openings, special hinges called swing free offsets can be used so the door opens totally out of the way at 90 degrees. You see these hinges in hospitals and medical outpatient surgical centers to give maximum opening width for wheeled patient gurney access with less scraping doorway openings. Sorry, I am an expert witness, just bringing a smidge of Code and ADA Act clarity basics to the table.
Wanjibon Thanks for the input. I have an IBC code book as well, I will take a look. (Hadn’t used IBC on any projects so it sits nicely on my bookshelf and looks great in the big black binder).
Perhaps this is what you are referring to.... Commonly, in new construction (for about the last 30 years or so) “Basements” need two escape windows. Some people convert basements to sleeping quarters - that’s why those windows are there. No one typically chooses that unless they are trapped. Code can vary from State to State and Cities usually approve National Codes by the Addition Date (not freely agreeing to future updates in the Code). As to ventilation, that’s likely a structural and environmental building Code, separate from the Life Safety Codes. If you have reference to another Code specifically addressing ground level or above use of windows as an exit, I would be interested in the Chapter and Verse of such Code, where it’s from, etc. Again, Codes are minimums and vary. I am referring to National Codes.
First thing before you decide to sleep in any place: identify at least 2 different means of egress in case of emergency. That is, if you value your life, of course.
Nearly every hotel room has no opening windows... I don't think this is as much of a problem as you all are making out. What would you do anyway, jump 10 floors down?
@@Genthar So what? I'm just saying there's plenty of non-ground-floor hotel rooms that are beyond the reach of any firefighting equipment, have non-opening windows, and that violates no codes and no one thinks twice about it.
My father in law was a firefighter for 30 years, one thing that he said still sticks in my head when I see metal bars on the windows. He said that's where he'd find the bodies, even if they had a lock most people don't have the presence of mind to keep it nearby or the smoke level is too high for them to remain conscious long enough to open them. Scary stuff!
@@randombiker4610 no, it wouldn't be to short, at least with the length he's got, anything can be used to choke someone if it was long enough and durable enough to withstand that much force for that length of time
In my school there's something even more dangerous. The windows are blocked by bars, and while there is a part of the bars that swings out to allow us to get out, the school in all it's wisdom decided to lock it with a big lock. So what do we do if there's a fire? Get burned, I guess.
I’m in construction, the company I work for does a lot of schools. All the windows I’ve seen getting installed either don’t open at all or are designed to only open 6” or so. Guess it’s suicide prevention...
For our school the windows only do a thing called “kipp” in German which isn’t possible on American windows i heard but the teacher always has a key so the window can fully open with that key
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@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Prisons have better security, but school administrators act tougher than prison wardens. Sometimes the two are interchangeable.
Not a fire code violation. Nearly every state has laws requiring hotel windows be limited to opening only a few inches, or be sealed. This is to prevent children from falling accidentally or jumping out of the widow. This, unfortunately, applies to all guest rooms on all floors. Not just higher floors.
It's more to have an child safe limiter, to be permanently locked out requiring damaging the devise in case of emergency as this devise does is against the general building codes published by the US government, and most states base their building codes from this central body (it's 3 am I don't remember the documents name, or if it was US Corp of engineers or someone else who writes it but I had to memorize it twice over now for my professions license as my state directly uses the guidelines as the code)
It would also be helpful to see it again from the back side so that we know exactly what hes doing. When he removed the lock from the housing the first time, he disengaged the wafer from outside the cylinder. Not the same conditions as the 2 pickings that followed.
In case of emergency, can't you just jam any other key in the lock and try to twist it out with some pressure. I do not have any paperclips laying around...
@@BrendanxPIn real emergency you can just grab the cable (preferrebly with something between your skin and the cable, a paper will do it) and yank hard, the small screw or wooden frame will not hold you back, and you just removed the block.
I saddly had the kind of lock that was just push it enough over to unlock it from the side it unlocks on. No outside lock and the inside lock for the window is fairly easy to unlock .... until it is old and gets hard to move the metal on metal lock as it goes together more instead of going apart more. Better lock design as it is easy to open from the side it unlocks on and impossiable to get to on the other side .... unlock you break the window to unlock the lock to which why any lock is useless when you can just break through the material that it is on .
I just made the exact same comment, I still don't get how he's getting it to retract, would've been really nice to show what it looks like from the back.
@@KipdoesStuff that's a dumb thing to say. Seeing him access it from the back was nothing like how he was accessing it from inside the keyway. It's also stupid to say that actually seeing that angle wouldn't have helped.
@@SpydersByte Not really, if you still haven't figured it out then there's no point wrecking your brain over it any more than you have already... (You do know you can rewind and pause the video to help if you're struggling to understand still?)
@@danmackintosh6325 yea, because rewinding and watching a magician perform the same card trick over and over again is basically the same amount of information as seeing the trick from behind. That makes sense. It's not like you'd understand the trick any better if you got to see what the magician sees.
I stayed at a very nice DoubleTree hotel when I visited NYC. It was on the eigth floor and none of the windows could be opened fully (probably to stop people from jumping or falling to their death), I don't know what lock was on the windows, but that is besides the point.
Clive ol' buddy..... since your so concerned, Im sure he would love it if you paid for all his room and board while he travels. Hell, while your at it,... my car suuuure is needing to be replaced. Toyota land cruiser would really nice.
Outside the scope of this video, however: You mention "many common furniture licks" in this video .. Many people buy used furniture or even pick up used desks on the side of the road, etc. Would you please do a video ABOUT common furniture locks, common luggage locks, etc., for those of us who recycle and encounter such things? I think that would be very useful.
Picked my first lock today and am absolutely over the moon. Picked it twice to show it wasn’t s fluke. ABUS will always be the first one I cracked. Thanks for the inspiration. Onwards and upwards. 👍🏼👍🏼
I once worked at a place where they decided to go around putting up thermostats in every office that were locked with a lock similar to that one. They also forced a specific temperature, vs the old thermostats that let us change the temperature. After not very much time at all, a good number of people realized that the same key used to open our desk drawers could be inserted into the thermostat "locks", and the thermostat would open up about as easily as demonstrated in this video. Needless to say, they ended up reprogramming the thermostats to allow us to change the temperature again, as they probably figured they'd rather not have everyone unlocking the thermostats. (I ended up replacing the thermostat in my space with the next model up and installing a remote temperature sensor on the other side of the office, using a spare wire on the existing cable bundle, near one of the other occupants of the shared office, because the HVAC unit was on that side of the office while the thermostat and internal sensor was near my collection of computers + mini fridge I had acquired, and my office-mate complained that it was getting too cold since the AC kept running due to the heat from my devices keeping the system on, while the actual AC was right next to him, and I found that the new thermostat allowed averaging the temperature from two sensors, vs the installed model. Needless to say, before I left that job, I restored the original thermostat, since the one I had installed errored out when the maintenance staff tried to program it every year, and nobody else wanted to have to manually re-program the thermostat every time this happened. Also, I paid for the new thermostat and figured I'd take my property with me! I had actually explained the scenario to the building manager after his guy wrote up his trouble programming my new thermostat - which looked identical to the old one - and to his credit, the facility manager got a good laugh out of it when I assured him I had not broken any property other than cutting into the drywall to install the sensor, which I left in place, and could restore the old thermostat, which as previously mentioned I ended up doing, if he so wished)
Could be that the hotel chain had _an incident_ somewhere and decided to secure upper floor windows on all their properties, but the mandate got lost in translation and _all_ windows were converted instead of just upper floor windows.
@@TWX1138 it's easier to child proof the window than pay for legal fees after your child goes missing. It probably makes the hotel insurance cheaper as well if all windows have them.
Probably just poor builders and planners they would have no real reason for the lock on a window besides burglary which is not common enough for hotels as they have security cameras and most people are sensible enough to close them and use the close position lock
So this lock prevents the occupant of the room from escaping while providing easy access for a thief or any person with a small piece of metal... Great lock!
@@Malandrin but the point is to allow the window to open part way, but not far enough to allow anyone in. If the window is open part way, it would be easy enough to slip a hand in the gap, and use a paperclip to open the lock. This lock doesn't keep the window closed against the frame.
Normally we hear..."nothing on one, two is biting, three engaged, nothing on four five is biting" However today we have..."everything is biting at the same time"
@@deanmoncaster one dutch, two dutch, queens of the double dutch, we skip better than you by that much, whatch our feet, our moves are quick, our double dutching won't be beat'
@@Stand_Tall No, the last wafer in the core is not reached by the key and its protrusion is what holds the core in place, so all you have to do is apply a pulling force and lower the last wafer in the core until it gives and the core pops out. But yeah I agree more explanation and a rear view would have been appreciated.
Yeah what gives. Shows that you need to push that little tab on the back of the core inwards to the center... but then proceeds to stick something into the inside/center of the front of the core...???
The locks in my house and workplaces have never been as abused in the name of experimentation and practice as they have since I've started watching LPL ... XD
Slemke 98 sorry my friend but you are mistaken. Building regulations in England and Wales demand non locking latches on first floor windows as part of a means of fire escape. Local Authority building inspectors do check plans and as part of final sign off inspection. I know this from personal experience.
I bought, from my local Restore, what I believe to be a large cabinet handle with a lock because the keyway looked interesting. I got home, reached back to feel for the back wafer, and out comes the whole dang thing 😂
Just found and started watching this channel. As others have said, why am I worried about locking my stuff up? After seeing a bunch of these videos I feel like I'm wasting my time and money buying any lock. Thank goodness my buddy, who is a cop, said "yeah, but you have to remember most crooks don't have enough brains to open a beer without a crowbar". Kind of made me feel better because most crooks aren't going to waste time picking a lock when they can just break in, grab, and run. So, yeah, I feel better. I feel better. I feel better. If I say it enough, I'll feel better, I think.
I have no intrest at the time to lockpick but I’m satisfied just by the fact that each video he gets straight to the point, makes it much more entertaining 👍👍
it's a safety thing so people cant commit suicide no matter the level. also you should have noticed if it was set up correctly that it wound open any more than 4 inches, so a babies head can't fit through either. the window is not part of the fire escape plan (former hotel maintenance). at ours we had pieces of plastic that clipped into the track and were screwed into place with 2 inch long security torx bits.
Who knew a pick doubles as a removal key?! Seriously though, LPL, I'd love to see you create a removal key for the Häfëlë wafer locks and similar master keyed cabinet lock manufacturers.
As soon as I saw the lock was made from stamped metal I knew this would be a short video. Yes, it's always good to remember Judd Nelson's line from "The Breakfast Club" when he says, "That's great, sir....but what if there's a fire?"
The hell for me i was thinking that thing wire he was going to cut like in 0.2 nanoseconds but he just and literally remove the core without any problem
These locks are fitted to windows by governments as standard in Homes in UK/England. All my windows had them and it was just renovated by the local council. Removed them all but I agree, very dangerous and extremely annoying in general.
@@pumpkin6429 Excuse me, you silly, orange gourd, but what else would you call it then? One of the definitions of "hack" when used as a noun, according to both Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com, is: "A strategy or technique for managing one's time or activities more efficiently." Pretty sure that if you needed to escape a ground level hotel room that has that locks on its windows, you'd need to do it quickly and efficiently. In that circumstance, it'd most certainly be a hack.
Suggestion: show us the back side of the lock as you're inserting the tool through the front so we can see exactly what the action is that causes the core to be released from the housing. You showed us how you moved the wafer when you turned the lock around and inserted the tool from the back but it's not clear why that wafer would be affected by your insertion of the pick through the front. But this is just a quibble; LPL rocks!
Michael ODonnell It’s the same action as doing it in the front he just inserted the pick all the way thru the core to the wafer and pushed the wafer to the side and pulled it out.
@1:29: my computer: (notification beep) me: Oh, let's see if that's anything important. @1:30: core: *clunk* @1:31: me: hmm. Thought I had a little more time there . . .
So if I ever see such a lock on the window of my hotel/motel room I will contact the front desk and advise them to remove it. Then tip off the local Fire Marshall.
I see window locks like this all the time in my local hospital, although they're all on floors where you definitely wouldn't want to try escaping out the window in the first place, unless you enjoy falling two floors onto concrete or railings.
@camjamsdad I'm pretty sure that's because there's a wheel arch physically blocking the glass from being able to go lower. On longer cars that's normally not a thing.
Certainly the case in South Africa where most windows are barred and there security gates, spiked walls, electric fence and alarms everywhere. Everyone knows they can't stop a thief but they provide a warning and a deterrence. Thief would rather go somewhere easier than waste so much effort.
These locks are to stop children falling out of windows and have nothing to do with security. Its often building code to have them installed to windows above ground floor. You tend to find them in buildings that have good fire compartmentation and lots of fire doors so fire doesn't spread fast enough that a window is your only way of escaping.
This lock is such a bad idea, considering a regular door chain can be used for the exact same effect and it's far safer as you don't have to search for a key while your house is on fire. You also can't pick a door chain with the window open 👍
Hotels specifically use locks on their ground floor windows because they don't want customers to be able to open them wide, as this would reduce their control over who enters and exits the building. Ignorant guests letting in burglars that way tend to produce bad press, as do naughty customers letting in prostitutes.
In the UK these are fitted with 25mm screws so in the event of a fire a good kick will see the window open. And generally they're fitted to upstairs windows to stop kids being able to open them fully and fall out.
That's crazy! I always thought those were illegal! The last hotel I stayed at had one of those, and the fire alarm went off. Thankfully it was just a false alarm, but still! It seems dangerous. While I probably would have looked for another exit (I was on the third floor), the fact is I'd like the option to break my legs vs. burn to death in that scenario. ALSO what about a rescue point? Yes I realize you could just as easily break the window, but that risks glass cuts. While I might survive a 3 story fall (albeit in bad shape), bleeding out from a glass cut is a real danger. Thanks for telling us how to disable those death traps.
Same here. It appears that you need to lift the spring-loaded wafer first, but that only seems possible if you have access to the rear of the lock--which is screwed to the surface. If that spring-loaded wafer can be lifted from the front of the lock, that should be demonstrated, else this is just an academic post.
The wafer he showed in the back is basically an "O" shaped piece of metal. There is a spring inside the core that pushes the O up from the outside bottom of the O. This is what holds the wafer in place, and keeps the core held in. From the back, LPL pushed down on the outside top of the O to disengage the wafer and free the core. From the front, he pushed down on the inside bottom of the O for the same effect.
I have some fridge/freezer locks that use that same core/locking mechanism. In fact, it appears to use the same keys. Not the same "type" of key mind you... the _exact same_ key with the _exact same_ bitting. Its only purpose is to keep small children out, but I wouldn't trust it for anything more important than that after watching this. Thanks again LPL!
my student accommodation had these preventing me from accessing the rather beautiful (and fenced in) rooftop garden. Considered just buying security screwdrivers and unscrewing it, but in the end just cut the wire cable.
I work in a nursing home and all rooms have this for not sure for security but also to act as a safety device to prevent deliberate or accidental falls from the upstairs windows.
Where I live, in the Netherlands, these locks or alternative mechanic constructions are mandatory for windows in certain buildings (hospitals, offices, etc). The reason being to discourage or prevent people from climbing out or jumping out as a suicide attempt. There are other mandatory means for emergency exits. At least one plan on each floor explains where you are and where the nearest emergency exit (in general a staircase) is.
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Now I can imagine him checking into a hotel.
Receptionist: "... And here are your room keys".
LPL: "no thanks, they will only slow me down"
Perfect 😂
TANGLDWEB I’m waiting for the lock picking lawyer to show us how you can get into a hotel room without a keycard.
Dave Davis probably not a good idea
LTNetjak seriously. I’m going to have to check that out.
LTNetjak I saw it. Heck, before I saw it, I thought it was going to be one of those small ones, that you insert into the card slot, and that it would “fool” a card reader into letting you into the room.
"Let's do that one more time so that I can show you that it's not a fluke."
It's never a fluke.
The only fluke was the design of the lock.
Bosnian Bill and LPL are perhaps the only lock picking youtubers where if they say “it’s not a fluke” I can believe them unconditionally. They have proven themselves time and time again, and I know they are trustworthy.
And it's never lupus.
@@CelestisForgeUK that's when they get you. Never fully trust
If it were a fluke, he'd try a way that isn't. So when he says it can be done, it's never a fluke.
His wife: We're on holidays, can you stop looking at the windows locks.
I can't dear. I see dead people and I don't want us to be one of them.
I bet he immediately picked it " because of safety".
Just in case she runs away...
again....
The way she gets him "in the mood" is to wear a chastity belt with like 20 super complex high security locks on it. O.o
@@grayeaglej “Talk dirty to me." "Click on one, click on two..."
“This lock is also a grenade,” is what I was really hoping he’d say.
Well, anything is a grenade if you throw it with enough force.
@@SlimThrull that would be a bullet (or cannonball, or thing thrown at high speeds to harm someone) a grenade needs to explode and basically shoot out bullets (the bullets being the broken fragments of the casing)
@@somedude6833 Throw it at 95% the speed of light. It'll act closer to a grenade than a bullet.
@@SlimThrull nah more like a railgun or cannonball. It would travel extremely quickly and make a giant hole in whatever it hits, but it still wouldn’t explode.
@@somedude6833 It'd turn to plasma within a millionth of a second.
"Isn't locking the window like that dangerous?"
"Well a little, yeah, but in this case you have to measure the security over the fire safety."
"Well is the lock at least a secure lock?"
"Oh god no, you can open that shit up with a paperclip if you had to"
Lmao, underrated comment.
well it serves it's purpose which is to protect you from people coming from the outside
stavik96 but anyone with a pair of sharp scissors and 3 minutes of time can easily cut through that!
@@alexbevan2183 that depends on how easily accessible this lock is for someone approaching from the outside.
Actually it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
This is the only lock I have ever seen where it's faster to remove the core than to use the key to open the lock. lol
What?... You've never seen a Master lock?
@@bugsbunny8691 Source pls
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Same
@@EddieGooch lock picking lawyer videos [626] , [869] , [369] , etc.
Thank you for not dragging a >3 min video out to 15 mins like 99% of youtube does.
As well as adding shitty background music.
You mean 10:01 minutes
that, seriously, is the best thing about this guy!
@@Shoaib_Khan85 so if all LPL's videos where him filming his ceiling for 3 to 9.59 minutes without saying a word, you would still binge watch the videos in the same way?
@@danpalu2308 what!
Leaving the hotel
LPL: "There is my card, there are the lock's cores."
MIMIK I want a Daedalus storm bow
@@lonely.toaster Terraria fan party!
I'm still mad that they got rid of the sharanga
"2 had a nice click, 3 was binding"
LPL: "..with almost no skill at all."
Me: "Ooh! This one's for me!" 😂
Self depreciation never gets old😂😂
"almost" ... read all the words :-)
M: *tries gouging the core out*
M: uggh it's not for me
_Ebay AI_ : plz tell why 1000 percent increase in shit window lock sold?
what to him is almost no skill at all will still present a problem to many many people.
"This is the Lockpicking.... oops, done.
In any case, that's all I have for now, and as always, have a nice day."
The one punch man of the lock picking world
"Thank you."
When the outro is longer than the video xD
@@lesliewessling4714 LPL should do a series of shorts, wherein there's no intro or outro, just picking the lock - I can see him making many videos less than 10 seconds long.
BAHAHHAAHAHHAHAA yes
I can already see a conversation at the airport:
Sir why are you carrying a lock picking set on your travel. Are you a professional thief?
Oh no sir, its just my fire hazard safety tool.
The simple way to avoid this is to carry more than just a lock pick, carry a variety of small tools. The lockpick set on its own stands out, but as part of an assorted kit it would likely go unnoticed by the poorly trained and likely inexperienced eye of the TSA agent.
It’s not illegal to carry lockpicks. It’s just illegal to use them to open locks you shouldn’t
That depends on the jurisdiction. It is illegal to carry lockpicks in some places.
It’s not illegal to have lock picks in most states. As for TSA, I don’t care. I’m looking for things that are actually dangerous.
@@MsDemzon In Poland it's actually illegal to even own lockpicks, unless you have locksmith license or something. Oh yeah, and as a lockpick, besides ones made for that purpose, count's ANYTHING else than dedicated key, if is inserted in any lock. Actually it's teoretically illegal to lockpick YOUR OWN locks. So yeah, good luck respecting laws like that
Finally Masterlock can feel pride from their products...
lol
@@Breca Great comment instentainiously burst out with laughter !
are you sure? this may be one of the subsidiary brands...
PLOT TWIST! Master is the manufacturer but leaves it unbranded.
No, no they really cant. :/
Truthfully,in an emergency there’s a chair going thru the window first.
Good luck, most of the windows secured with these are double-glazed and likely to bounce the chair straight back at you!
Good luck with that when the room is filled with smoke and you can't breath anywhere except for down at the floor
Then fine it will get kicked out... You'll be surprised What adrelindin does to a person.
Realistically, in case of fire you could very well be too panicked to even consider that.
@@pw1187 Okay, but i assume that you dont wear shoes when you are sleeping and that they arent right beside your bed. Kicking that window bare foot or with socks will really hurt and bleed alot
I'd still like to see it done with a paperclip. I'd like a whole series of improvised lock-picking. :)
That's a good idea
Alternatively, I'd also like to see him use Bobby pins, Fallout style.
In the uk these are sometimes nick named the suicide locks. They’re put on windows of high level buildings, particularly common in university accommodation
Gotta love that mindset. "Hey being here literally makes people want to throw themselves out the nearest window." "Well guess we'd better lock it."
@@HessianLikeTheFabric
I'm 99% certain that anyone who's suicidal enough to throw themselves out of a window only would get more depressed from not being able to do so
Which whilst it might save _some_ lives probably just ends up with more people doing other acts of self harm including of course death as well
So... I doubt that realistically these locks have actually 'saved' anyone's lives, at most it meant that it took longer for someone to kill themselves and hopefully in the meanwhile get help from supportive friends
So... I wouldn't say these locks even succeeded in that regard as they likely have caused more pain and death than they have prevented... :/
Addressing symptoms and ignoring root causes _never_ helps anyonw, at most it just make things drag on for longer... :/
@@ArgentumEmperio What an absolutely wrong and negative mindset to have.
Usually the safety concern is more about little kids being curious than about suicidal adults.
@The Hessian in a university dorm (having been a student) I feel this is really a “stop the very drunk student accidentally falling out the window” lock.
"Went online and found this exact lock."
Lockpick just out here taking locks from hotels, lets face it. /s
Hahaha
@MalakJoe A real lawman, if you will
He's doing a favour for the next person's safety, and getting a lock out of the situation. It's a win-win scenario
Doubt he would've taken the time to repaint the housing if he snagged it
Hes a LOCKPICKING LAWYER DUN DUH DUN
I thought for a second that this lock was made out of a dangerous material
idk idk It still might cause cancer in California
@@RuneInternational Just _being_ in California causes cancer.
Every product cause cancer in California
@Hangman official That's why California residents go to Vegas overnight when they have to do projects involving glues and solvents.
@@RuneInternational No, but it turns frogs gay and give children Downs.
Would you say that this wafer method of securing the core inside the lock is the least expensive? (Asking for a friend on the design team at Master Lock)
Nah man having no core at all is the cheapest.
They actually have a collective group of people that make those shitty locks? I always assumed they just had them imported lol
@@cottoneyejoe8285 I always said a welder as a lock and a sander as a key is the future of security
That is the thing the really surprises me. He moved the retaining wafer from inside the lock key-way. It could have been constructed fully on the outer rim... Essentially it is a master key wafer as demonstrated. A lock, like a hand cuff lock... just a retainer, not really security. Maybe, its just meant to keep the kids inside who can't reach the door knob.
@@vermeilanimation3706 I, for one, weld all my doors shut every single night. It's the only way you can be certain that you're safe. Just being responsible and using common sense, honestly.
🙃🙃🙃
>"That night I went online and found the exact model of lock"
>Doesn't actually mention the model or even manufacturer
He 100% stole that lock.
"in fairness, I left the room safer for the next occupant..."
lol'ed
For science:D
@@Pawtism technically the truth
The paint has not worn off of the countersunk indents in the mounting holes so I dont believe that is the case, a tight screw would have stripped it to the metal. Its likely someone like LPL could find the lock online by description alone but the brand could also just be written somewhere we havent seen
"I had the unfortunate pleasure of staying in a ground floor hotel room."
Luckily, the 8th floor rooms do not have this lock on them, so you can jump right out.
In the military, there is actually a holiday briefing given before big travel times like Thanksgiving and such; in which you are advised to always ask for a hotel room on the third floor or above, but at least two floors below top floor(to avoid rope from the roof attacks).
@@johns9652 That's quite common in Russia, with its 5-floor houses. The 3rd one was actually called "jewish floor" because of being the safest floor for anybody wealthy and greedy.
@@johns9652 Is it common for military personnel to be attacked on vacation? I suppose I could see higher ranking officers being targets, but is average joe really gonna get attacked in his hotel room?
@@Piggywhiff Good grief, have you never watched any Hollywood documentary involving the military, ever? :D
@@Piggywhiff I really don't know any statistics for such things, however from what I've seen personally the only crimes targeting US personnel were petty, like street scammers playing 3 card monte, guys catching VD from uhh Red Light areas, etc.
The Brass always acted as if there were a terrorist attack about to happen around every corner though. Not sure about the other branches of service, but in the Marines the chance of terrorist activity or other mayhem was an excuse for dress code requirements even. Marines are ALWAYS required to wear a belt, on or off duty. The logic being that one can use a belt as a tourniquet or other emergency.
One of those "Hollywood documentaries" The Electric Monk mentioned seized on this fact to have the characters escape some hostile situation by wrapping their belts over a cable and zip-lining to safety.
LPL rocks! Point of Code which I study and practice for over several decades: The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101 Fire Life Safety Code that deals with “Exit-way egress” does not typically recognize windows as a point of fire or emergency egress in this 7/8” thick book. Full width and height windows openable are discussed in school room applications as alternative egress points but may not be reliable in snow covered seasons as there is no paved or cement walkways to keep clear in all seasons. Even revolving doors are commonly not an exit way and have standard push bar exit next to them as the “marked exit”. Overhead doors are also not a point of egress. These self elected supplemental egress points like a window are perhaps options for the physically able and thin enough to use if trapped. The Code does require fire rated doors on your Hotel room - the idea being, if you were trapped and had no ability to use the hallways as a point of egress, you shelter in place (wet towels and cover the bottom of the door edge, etc). Most modern Hotel rooms are also fire rated for the same reason. It’s based on being rescued typically within the one hour rating. Modern fire alarms detect fire early and common evacuations take place yet these extremes of being trapped in rooms are anomaly’s typically quite close to the fire itself or severely blocked by smoke. What is an exit way: The ADA disability Act requires a minimum of 32” clear width when fully opened in all doorways (48” max). Many internet references say 36” and that is moronically wrong. Doors are typically are 36” and the door frame stops on both sides are a half-inch each, so most doorways have 35” clear, but when the swing of the door won’t let it swing all the way open (lets say worst case 90 degrees) the door reduces the opening on the hinge side by the door thickness on 2 3/4”, but not the door stop on the hinge side, so subtract 1/2” and that leaves an obstruction of 2 1/8” plus about a 1/4” for the door gap on the hinge swing side and that’s 33” clear. In tight or restricted openings, special hinges called swing free offsets can be used so the door opens totally out of the way at 90 degrees. You see these hinges in hospitals and medical outpatient surgical centers to give maximum opening width for wheeled patient gurney access with less scraping doorway openings. Sorry, I am an expert witness, just bringing a smidge of Code and ADA Act clarity basics to the table.
Really weird that it doesn't mandate that, I know the IBC and IRC mandate a minimum window opening as a means of egress, something like 24 x 18"
I most states all bedrooms need 2 methods of egress. Two doors Or a door and a window. For ventilation and for fire.
Wanjibon Thanks for the input. I have an IBC code book as well, I will take a look. (Hadn’t used IBC on any projects so it sits nicely on my bookshelf and looks great in the big black binder).
Perhaps this is what you are referring to.... Commonly, in new construction (for about the last 30 years or so) “Basements” need two escape windows. Some people convert basements to sleeping quarters - that’s why those windows are there. No one typically chooses that unless they are trapped. Code can vary from State to State and Cities usually approve National Codes by the Addition Date (not freely agreeing to future updates in the Code). As to ventilation, that’s likely a structural and environmental building Code, separate from the Life Safety Codes. If you have reference to another Code specifically addressing ground level or above use of windows as an exit, I would be interested in the Chapter and Verse of such Code, where it’s from, etc. Again, Codes are minimums and vary. I am referring to National Codes.
Beat me to the punch. I guess I need to watch RUclips more often :). Well done.
I never thought of the implication that are associated with a lock on the window. Thank you lpl!
First thing before you decide to sleep in any place: identify at least 2 different means of egress in case of emergency. That is, if you value your life, of course.
Nor did whoever installed it.
Nearly every hotel room has no opening windows... I don't think this is as much of a problem as you all are making out. What would you do anyway, jump 10 floors down?
As LPL stated, this lock was on the GROUND floor room window.
@@Genthar So what? I'm just saying there's plenty of non-ground-floor hotel rooms that are beyond the reach of any firefighting equipment, have non-opening windows, and that violates no codes and no one thinks twice about it.
Think of all the windows covered with metal bars
New ones have to have a release button
Almost every building in Bangladesh has metal bars covering every window and balcony rip
My father in law was a firefighter for 30 years, one thing that he said still sticks in my head when I see metal bars on the windows. He said that's where he'd find the bodies, even if they had a lock most people don't have the presence of mind to keep it nearby or the smoke level is too high for them to remain conscious long enough to open them.
Scary stuff!
My windows have bars. It’s just how it goes for the ground floor in a city
Daniel A Millar Maybe in America. Definitely not in Europe.
Honestly when you said it was dangerous I was expected to see an explanation of how it could be used as a garrote wire.
Too short I guess.
@@randombiker4610 no, it wouldn't be to short, at least with the length he's got, anything can be used to choke someone if it was long enough and durable enough to withstand that much force for that length of time
Yes, but no
Irwin Mainway style
I blinked and i missed the part when he took the lock apart.
I clicked on the video and it was over.
"spring-loaded wafers" sound delicious.
Or a terrible surf-rock band.
Or a Monty Python confectionery skit. With the "spring surprise".
The funny thing is the sound that makes surf music what it is on the guitar is from a spring reverb. The more you know.
hmm, just saw a video about the lake district caterpillars that eat exploding seed pods...
hm idk... their "Sultans of springs" seems to be on the way to become a big hit
Lockpicking lawyer: Removes core
Me: Unscrews entire lock.
I was thinking the same thing... portable electric screw drivers are so small nowadays that I keep them in my coat pocket.
@Stock Name I'd just put all my weight into a hefty kick. It doesn't look like the 2 screws at each end would hold up to that
A lot of times those are secured with rivets.
@@nstg8 ..which is usually a shitty pop rivet, no stronger than your average screw.
@@Schroefdoppie Correct, but more time consuming than unscrewing a screw
Saw the video under the 3 min.
“Ah Shit here we go again.”
In my school there's something even more dangerous. The windows are blocked by bars, and while there is a part of the bars that swings out to allow us to get out, the school in all it's wisdom decided to lock it with a big lock. So what do we do if there's a fire? Get burned, I guess.
I’m in construction, the company I work for does a lot of schools. All the windows I’ve seen getting installed either don’t open at all or are designed to only open 6” or so. Guess it’s suicide prevention...
William Jefferson Prisons have better security.
For our school the windows only do a thing called “kipp” in German which isn’t possible on American windows i heard but the teacher always has a key so the window can fully open with that key
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Prisons have better security, but school administrators act tougher than prison wardens. Sometimes the two are interchangeable.
You were not a very viable students probably =)
Imagine traveling with the Lock Picking Lawyer
"Hey wait a second, I don't think I ever picked this style lock."
Really?
"Done!"
"4 seconds? Musta been a hard lock, eh?"
@@ChemySh no, but since he doesn't do live cores, it took the seconds for Amazon instant delivery to provide a sample 🤣
Not a fire code violation. Nearly every state has laws requiring hotel windows be limited to opening only a few inches, or be sealed. This is to prevent children from falling accidentally or jumping out of the widow.
This, unfortunately, applies to all guest rooms on all floors. Not just higher floors.
It's more to have an child safe limiter, to be permanently locked out requiring damaging the devise in case of emergency as this devise does is against the general building codes published by the US government, and most states base their building codes from this central body (it's 3 am I don't remember the documents name, or if it was US Corp of engineers or someone else who writes it but I had to memorize it twice over now for my professions license as my state directly uses the guidelines as the code)
Most juristictions aopt The IBC in whole or in part, and or NFPA 101 life safety to codefy egress. Requirments.
I think for videos like this, you should use exactly what you suggest we should use, e.g. a paperclip
Just The Highlights Exactly. Mr. LPL show us the same trick with paperclip.
It would also be helpful to see it again from the back side so that we know exactly what hes doing. When he removed the lock from the housing the first time, he disengaged the wafer from outside the cylinder. Not the same conditions as the 2 pickings that followed.
In case of emergency, can't you just jam any other key in the lock and try to twist it out with some pressure. I do not have any paperclips laying around...
@@BrendanxPIn real emergency you can just grab the cable (preferrebly with something between your skin and the cable, a paper will do it) and yank hard, the small screw or wooden frame will not hold you back, and you just removed the block.
@@thorin1045 You're right, that would probably be sufficient indeed.
When I was a kid I would use Lego spears to open window locks.
I saddly had the kind of lock that was just push it enough over to unlock it from the side it unlocks on. No outside lock and the inside lock for the window is fairly easy to unlock .... until it is old and gets hard to move the metal on metal lock as it goes together more instead of going apart more. Better lock design as it is easy to open from the side it unlocks on and impossiable to get to on the other side .... unlock you break the window to unlock the lock to which why any lock is useless when you can just break through the material that it is on .
My house has the kind of room locks that you can open with a lego antenna
How this fellow makes these locks shiver in fear is really amazing.
This really needs to be shown from the back side too. . . .
I just made the exact same comment, I still don't get how he's getting it to retract, would've been really nice to show what it looks like from the back.
He showed the back if you haven't figured it out, you are never going to figure it out.
@@KipdoesStuff that's a dumb thing to say. Seeing him access it from the back was nothing like how he was accessing it from inside the keyway. It's also stupid to say that actually seeing that angle wouldn't have helped.
@@SpydersByte Not really, if you still haven't figured it out then there's no point wrecking your brain over it any more than you have already... (You do know you can rewind and pause the video to help if you're struggling to understand still?)
@@danmackintosh6325 yea, because rewinding and watching a magician perform the same card trick over and over again is basically the same amount of information as seeing the trick from behind. That makes sense. It's not like you'd understand the trick any better if you got to see what the magician sees.
Slower to use the key lmao
@@EasyPeasyLemonSqueezyXD It's a window lock buddy...
So this is my answer when a police officer asks why the hell I am carrying a lockpick in my pocket.
"It is for my safety, sir!"
You stay in the wrong hotels.
I stayed at a very nice DoubleTree hotel when I visited NYC. It was on the eigth floor and none of the windows could be opened fully (probably to stop people from jumping or falling to their death), I don't know what lock was on the windows, but that is besides the point.
He does seem to... ruclips.net/video/-Bazy3Ew6D4/видео.html
Clive ol' buddy..... since your so concerned, Im sure he would love it if you paid for all his room and board while he travels.
Hell, while your at it,... my car suuuure is needing to be replaced. Toyota land cruiser would really nice.
@@jjjsmith2497 You must be desperate if you consider a Land Cruiser as an upgrade.
JJJ SMITH That’s like a $70K car
I hope you filed a complaint to the local fire department.
LPL probably saved a life or two by showing others how to defeat the lock that could be blocking their exit in an emergency. Thanks for sharing.
Outside the scope of this video, however:
You mention "many common furniture licks" in this video .. Many people buy used furniture or even pick up used desks on the side of the road, etc. Would you please do a video ABOUT common furniture locks, common luggage locks, etc., for those of us who recycle and encounter such things?
I think that would be very useful.
Picked my first lock today and am absolutely over the moon. Picked it twice to show it wasn’t s fluke. ABUS will always be the first one I cracked. Thanks for the inspiration. Onwards and upwards. 👍🏼👍🏼
Would have been interesting to see that pick action from the back too for a more complete perspective.
I once worked at a place where they decided to go around putting up thermostats in every office that were locked with a lock similar to that one. They also forced a specific temperature, vs the old thermostats that let us change the temperature. After not very much time at all, a good number of people realized that the same key used to open our desk drawers could be inserted into the thermostat "locks", and the thermostat would open up about as easily as demonstrated in this video. Needless to say, they ended up reprogramming the thermostats to allow us to change the temperature again, as they probably figured they'd rather not have everyone unlocking the thermostats.
(I ended up replacing the thermostat in my space with the next model up and installing a remote temperature sensor on the other side of the office, using a spare wire on the existing cable bundle, near one of the other occupants of the shared office, because the HVAC unit was on that side of the office while the thermostat and internal sensor was near my collection of computers + mini fridge I had acquired, and my office-mate complained that it was getting too cold since the AC kept running due to the heat from my devices keeping the system on, while the actual AC was right next to him, and I found that the new thermostat allowed averaging the temperature from two sensors, vs the installed model. Needless to say, before I left that job, I restored the original thermostat, since the one I had installed errored out when the maintenance staff tried to program it every year, and nobody else wanted to have to manually re-program the thermostat every time this happened. Also, I paid for the new thermostat and figured I'd take my property with me! I had actually explained the scenario to the building manager after his guy wrote up his trouble programming my new thermostat - which looked identical to the old one - and to his credit, the facility manager got a good laugh out of it when I assured him I had not broken any property other than cutting into the drywall to install the sensor, which I left in place, and could restore the old thermostat, which as previously mentioned I ended up doing, if he so wished)
I will take your word for it. I wish you would have shown that from the back. I've been in those rooms too.
Odd that it was on the ground floor. Usually I'll see those on floors 3 and higher to prevent falling/jumping out of the window
Could be that the hotel chain had _an incident_ somewhere and decided to secure upper floor windows on all their properties, but the mandate got lost in translation and _all_ windows were converted instead of just upper floor windows.
@@TWX1138 it's easier to child proof the window than pay for legal fees after your child goes missing. It probably makes the hotel insurance cheaper as well if all windows have them.
Recently a law was passed making it mandatory for all apartments in NSW to have a similar lock on all apartment windows..
big dog Idiotic Australian laws again... (they also almost banned computer security with a recent law).
Probably just poor builders and planners they would have no real reason for the lock on a window besides burglary which is not common enough for hotels as they have security cameras and most people are sensible enough to close them and use the close position lock
So this lock prevents the occupant of the room from escaping while providing easy access for a thief or any person with a small piece of metal... Great lock!
that lock is screwed from the inside of the room, not from the outside
@@Malandrin but the point is to allow the window to open part way, but not far enough to allow anyone in. If the window is open part way, it would be easy enough to slip a hand in the gap, and use a paperclip to open the lock. This lock doesn't keep the window closed against the frame.
@@tomsing98 Paperclip? I was envisioning someone taking cutters to the connecting braided wire string.
Posts a video with a clickbait title,
*actually delivers content and goes straight to the point*
you new here?
Also delivered exactly what was advertised.
Clash Bluelight I’ll assume that both of you are new here since you commented on a one year old comment
@@littolicce actually i've been subbed for almost a year and a half. i was just watching through the backlog of videos during a break from work.
"...how it can be bypassed with almost no skill at all."
Well, that qualifies me...I hope!
You're right, having the window locked with this is very dangerous.
And yes, illegal everywhere in the US
not unless the occupant is provided a key. my apartment has locking window bars, i keep the key on the floor radiator below.
Normally we hear..."nothing on one, two is biting, three engaged, nothing on four five is biting"
However today we have..."everything is biting at the same time"
binding**
that’s what i always hear and use
Yeah, it's "binding".
Yeah it is binding but my phone loves to get every word wrong. Had I not fixed this sentence I may as well just have written double Dutch.
"everything is biting at the same time"
That's called a fire my man
@@deanmoncaster one dutch, two dutch, queens of the double dutch, we skip better than you by that much, whatch our feet, our moves are quick, our double dutching won't be beat'
I'm wondering what just got bumped out of my brain to store this, love this stuff.
Wish you had shown from the back as you used the pick, so we could see exactly what was happening.
Good point
he just grabbed the core and pulled
Stand Tall the spring-loaded wafer needed to be moved first, right?
@@Stand_Tall No, the last wafer in the core is not reached by the key and its protrusion is what holds the core in place, so all you have to do is apply a pulling force and lower the last wafer in the core until it gives and the core pops out. But yeah I agree more explanation and a rear view would have been appreciated.
Yeah what gives. Shows that you need to push that little tab on the back of the core inwards to the center... but then proceeds to stick something into the inside/center of the front of the core...???
The locks in my house and workplaces have never been as abused in the name of experimentation and practice as they have since I've started watching LPL ... XD
LPL: "This hotel had this exact lock"
Hotel: where did the lock go?
I just went around work pulling the cores out of several filing cabinets. You're a bad influence! haha
In the UK a significant number of chain hotels have this style of lock on all guest room windows.
Broadcast1Channel and ironically in domestic properties windows above the ground floor are not allowed to have locks to meet building regulations...
In the UK we are not trusted to do anything.
was looking at one of these in a uk chain the other week
@@robinturner2300 Doubt that's true.
Slemke 98 sorry my friend but you are mistaken. Building regulations in England and Wales demand non locking latches on first floor windows as part of a means of fire escape. Local Authority building inspectors do check plans and as part of final sign off inspection. I know this from personal experience.
I bought, from my local Restore, what I believe to be a large cabinet handle with a lock because the keyway looked interesting. I got home, reached back to feel for the back wafer, and out comes the whole dang thing 😂
Just found and started watching this channel. As others have said, why am I worried about locking my stuff up? After seeing a bunch of these videos I feel like I'm wasting my time and money buying any lock. Thank goodness my buddy, who is a cop, said "yeah, but you have to remember most crooks don't have enough brains to open a beer without a crowbar". Kind of made me feel better because most crooks aren't going to waste time picking a lock when they can just break in, grab, and run. So, yeah, I feel better. I feel better. I feel better. If I say it enough, I'll feel better, I think.
I have no intrest at the time to lockpick but I’m satisfied just by the fact that each video he gets straight to the point, makes it much more entertaining 👍👍
it's a safety thing so people cant commit suicide no matter the level. also you should have noticed if it was set up correctly that it wound open any more than 4 inches, so a babies head can't fit through either. the window is not part of the fire escape plan (former hotel maintenance). at ours we had pieces of plastic that clipped into the track and were screwed into place with 2 inch long security torx bits.
Who knew a pick doubles as a removal key?!
Seriously though, LPL, I'd love to see you create a removal key for the Häfëlë wafer locks and similar master keyed cabinet lock manufacturers.
I'm so sure he actually went on the website and bought one of these locks
As soon as I saw the lock was made from stamped metal I knew this would be a short video. Yes, it's always good to remember Judd Nelson's line from "The Breakfast Club" when he says, "That's great, sir....but what if there's a fire?"
Yeah, those two screws should defeat any reasonably arthritic four year old.
The hell for me i was thinking that thing wire he was going to cut like in 0.2 nanoseconds but he just and literally remove the core without any problem
These locks are fitted to windows by governments as standard in Homes in UK/England. All my windows had them and it was just renovated by the local council.
Removed them all but I agree, very dangerous and extremely annoying in general.
It’s not truly dangerous. If a hotel was on fire, you would just throw a chair or brick at it the window
For council houses maybe, you nearly never see them in most houses cus they are a fire hazard.
Useless and Deadly. The right combination for your home!
/s
This is a good safety feature, in case of fire and don't have the key.
you are just awesome. keep these videos coming. I work in IT Security so this is perfect to quench my security thirst.
A super crappy lock but a life saving hack.👍🏻🤓
Don't call it a hack, you fucking dweeb. 😠
@Pumpkin woah there need an award for biggest douche of the week?
@@pumpkin6429 dingus be triggered over small little things.
@@pumpkin6429 Excuse me, you silly, orange gourd, but what else would you call it then? One of the definitions of "hack" when used as a noun, according to both Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com, is: "A strategy or technique for managing one's time or activities more efficiently." Pretty sure that if you needed to escape a ground level hotel room that has that locks on its windows, you'd need to do it quickly and efficiently. In that circumstance, it'd most certainly be a hack.
@camjamsdad yes your right
Suggestion: show us the back side of the lock as you're inserting the tool through the front so we can see exactly what the action is that causes the core to be released from the housing. You showed us how you moved the wafer when you turned the lock around and inserted the tool from the back but it's not clear why that wafer would be affected by your insertion of the pick through the front. But this is just a quibble; LPL rocks!
Michael ODonnell
It’s the same action as doing it in the front he just inserted the pick all the way thru the core to the wafer and pushed the wafer to the side and pulled it out.
And better yet, actually do it with a paper clip.
@1:29:
my computer: (notification beep)
me: Oh, let's see if that's anything important.
@1:30:
core: *clunk*
@1:31:
me: hmm. Thought I had a little more time there . . .
So if I ever see such a lock on the window of my hotel/motel room I will contact the front desk and advise them to remove it. Then tip off the local Fire Marshall.
Had a same situation. I was on the 7th floor. Opening the window wouldn't save my life lol
The ever so present double edge of a safety lock. The strangest part was a hotel with windows that open.
Probably one that doesn't have air conditioning.
I see window locks like this all the time in my local hospital, although they're all on floors where you definitely wouldn't want to try escaping out the window in the first place, unless you enjoy falling two floors onto concrete or railings.
In hospitals, such people actually do exist.
@camjamsdad I'm pretty sure that's because there's a wheel arch physically blocking the glass from being able to go lower. On longer cars that's normally not a thing.
@camjamsdad Clearly they forget the first rule of moronism: Make something idiot proof, and somebody will make a better idiot.
I'm starting to think that locks are more of just a visual deterant for thieves then for actually locking something
Certainly the case in South Africa where most windows are barred and there security gates, spiked walls, electric fence and alarms everywhere. Everyone knows they can't stop a thief but they provide a warning and a deterrence. Thief would rather go somewhere easier than waste so much effort.
My Dad used to say, locks are for keeping your friends out.
meaning that anyone who really wants in, will get in.
You know why I watch this videos? They are short and to the point. No wasted time.
everything looks easy when a professional with the right tools is doing it.
These locks are to stop children falling out of windows and have nothing to do with security. Its often building code to have them installed to windows above ground floor. You tend to find them in buildings that have good fire compartmentation and lots of fire doors so fire doesn't spread fast enough that a window is your only way of escaping.
Except he says right at the beginning that this WAS a ground floor room.
They are installed on all levels and he didn't say it was on the ground floor.
@@mattblackledge9068 a) 00:10 yes he does.
B) ur changing your story now cuz in your op, you said they are "installed in windows above ground floor"
@@mrsocko316 I work in property management. They are used everywhere in both domestic and commerical properties to stop people falling out of windows.
@@mattblackledge9068 thats great, good to hear, you still said 2 different stories and said he didn't say what he said.
This lock is such a bad idea, considering a regular door chain can be used for the exact same effect and it's far safer as you don't have to search for a key while your house is on fire. You also can't pick a door chain with the window open 👍
Its to stop children falling out of the window, (and shirking their responsibility and blaming the establishment.)
Hotels specifically use locks on their ground floor windows because they don't want customers to be able to open them wide, as this would reduce their control over who enters and exits the building. Ignorant guests letting in burglars that way tend to produce bad press, as do naughty customers letting in prostitutes.
@camjamsdad if you install them properly then that won't work, the chain should only reach once there is no gap
For how flimsy that looks to be constructed, if there was an emergency, it doesn’t look that hard to rip out of the wall/window.
You have something to grab. So yes, probably not very hard
I appreciate you explained right out the gate how it's dangerous!
In the UK these are fitted with 25mm screws so in the event of a fire a good kick will see the window open. And generally they're fitted to upstairs windows to stop kids being able to open them fully and fall out.
That's crazy! I always thought those were illegal! The last hotel I stayed at had one of those, and the fire alarm went off. Thankfully it was just a false alarm, but still! It seems dangerous. While I probably would have looked for another exit (I was on the third floor), the fact is I'd like the option to break my legs vs. burn to death in that scenario. ALSO what about a rescue point? Yes I realize you could just as easily break the window, but that risks glass cuts. While I might survive a 3 story fall (albeit in bad shape), bleeding out from a glass cut is a real danger. Thanks for telling us how to disable those death traps.
I’d use a chair to break the window…….
I'm a bit confused at what just happened here. Were you able to just yank the core out or did you lift the the spring loaded wafer?
Yes. And yes.
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Ain't nothing to see up the Holler down Copperhead Road. No crops there.
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Same here. It appears that you need to lift the spring-loaded wafer first, but that only seems possible if you have access to the rear of the lock--which is screwed to the surface. If that spring-loaded wafer can be lifted from the front of the lock, that should be demonstrated, else this is just an academic post.
The wafer he showed in the back is basically an "O" shaped piece of metal. There is a spring inside the core that pushes the O up from the outside bottom of the O. This is what holds the wafer in place, and keeps the core held in. From the back, LPL pushed down on the outside top of the O to disengage the wafer and free the core. From the front, he pushed down on the inside bottom of the O for the same effect.
Now show us the same trick with paperclip
>literally de-cores it with a god damn soda can tab
hair pin, clip binder they all work
@@spartanwar1185 Red Bull*
Literally all his videos require special tools no one has lol
Crazy!! Fire that design engineer!
I have some fridge/freezer locks that use that same core/locking mechanism. In fact, it appears to use the same keys. Not the same "type" of key mind you... the _exact same_ key with the _exact same_ bitting. Its only purpose is to keep small children out, but I wouldn't trust it for anything more important than that after watching this. Thanks again LPL!
I would be interested to see the back when you pull the core out
The advantage of packing a few lock picking tools with your PJ's!
my student accommodation had these preventing me from accessing the rather beautiful (and fenced in) rooftop garden. Considered just buying security screwdrivers and unscrewing it, but in the end just cut the wire cable.
I work in a nursing home and all rooms have this for not sure for security but also to act as a safety device to prevent deliberate or accidental falls from the upstairs windows.
Wow. Excellent, thanks. Would have liked to see the back side when you used the pick to pull the cylinder.
looks like 90% of the arcade cabinet lock cores I've handled... they were all cash free crad swipe conversions
"with almost no skill at all"
I am IN!
Would have been great to show what's happening with the lock pick from the other side.
Where I live, in the Netherlands, these locks or alternative mechanic constructions are mandatory for windows in certain buildings (hospitals, offices, etc). The reason being to discourage or prevent people from climbing out or jumping out as a suicide attempt. There are other mandatory means for emergency exits. At least one plan on each floor explains where you are and where the nearest emergency exit (in general a staircase) is.
Thanks for keeping things at the appropriate length