[753] You’re Doing it Wrong... The REAL Double Wrench Method

this is the lock-picking lawyer and i recently saw a youtube video with over 60 million views showing how to break open a padlock using two wrenches just like these now i'll leave a link in the description below but essentially the video shows this arrangement the two wrenches are inserted through the shackle of the padlock such that when they are pressed together they'll ever against each other and exert an incredible amount of outward force on the inside of the shackle now if you think about it you realize that the force exerted by the wrenches is actually directed to the thickest part of the shackle and then through the shackle to the lock body now in the video it's the pot metal lock body which breaks because of the extreme forces of course but also because of the weak lock material but the trick really doesn't scale up because the forces are being exerted to a strong part of the lock so even with a mildly competent padlock the tricks going to fall flat but I don't think it has to if we can redirect those forces to a weak part of the lock so consider this master lock if we had to choose the weak parts of this lock I'd probably start with these little cutouts in the shackle where the locking lugs go and then the locking lugs themselves those are probably the physically weakest parts of the lock so if we can redirect the extreme forces exerted by these wrenches to those parts of the lock I think we have a trick that could probably scale up to some stronger locks so it's actually not that hard to do all we do is reorient one of those wrenches we put the first one in like so and then the second one at a 90 degree angle so let's see what happens when we try this okay looks like we broke something but it's not completely open let's try that one more time there we go okay let's take a look at exactly what happened if we look at this shackle we can see that it broke right on both of the shackle cutouts so absolutely the weakest points of the metal there now because this directs the forces to the weak parts of the lock rather than the strong parts I think this is a far superior method to that shown in the video with sixty million views and it's probably something that's gonna scale up better and work on far stronger locks in any case that's all I have for you today if you do have any questions or comments about this please put them below if you like this video and would like to see more like it please subscribe and as always have a nice day thank you

Channel: LockPickingLawyer

Views: 11,169,510

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Length: 2min 58sec (178 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 22 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/TheDandyWarhol]

I'm going to go steal shit now.

[u/Brain_Jelly]

They need to show these methods with the locks in actual use. How well does it work with 2 large chain length's in the lock?

[u/[deleted]]

Used this on the padlock of my own storage space once. It was three days before Christmas and I lost my key. Showed up to the front desk with my license, passport, registration papers for the space and keycard for the gate. Lady told me she would have to get their locksmith to come remove the dinky little padlock and that would take two weeks. Said “ok” and that I’d come back to reschedule the locksmith later. Walked across the street and bought two wrenches and a new lock, cam back and snapped off the old lock, got my fake Christmas tree and went home.

[u/psmwrxguy]

Be careful watching lockpicking lawyer or bosnianbill on YouTube. Could sink into videos for eternity.

[u/Im_blanking]

Everyone's asking how it would work if the lock as attached to something, so I thought I'd maybe bring up an idea of how it would work.

If anything is attached to the lock you use 1 wrech (vertical one, not horizontal one). You jimmy that wrench up against whatever is used to lock. The second wrench you use to get grip on the lock by putting the 2 prongs between the back side and front side of the locking mechanism housing. Once that's done simply squeeze the 2 wrenches togeth and voila, lock broken.

PS: If anyone wants I could use my very very VERY limited ms paint skills to show you how it would work.

[u/WiseWordsFromBrett]

Not John Mulaneys funniest bit

[u/tellmewhymate]

guy is so jealous about that 60million views

[u/fried-labia]

I’m gonna break locks and replace em with the same model. Then watch.... the confusion.

[u/QuarterFlounder]

Ah, if there's anything that I've learned from reddit, it's that every lock ever invented is shit and someone can easily steal your stuff with a toothpick and a toenail clipping.