[841] HUGE Soviet Dual Custody Padlock Picked

this is the lock-picking lawyer and what i have for you today is a dual custody padlock that i'm told was made in soviet lithuania in the 1960s this lock is quite big weighing in at about four point four pounds and it features an absurdly thick 18 millimeter sliding bolt shackle as I said this is a dual custody padlock meaning that it takes two different keys presumably held by two separate people to operate the lock essentially it is the physical embodiment of the so-called two-man rule which is common in militaries and sensitive facilities but the concept was far more widespread in the industry of the Soviet Union and that's because of the well-developed black market for ordinary consumer goods as such a dual custody lock like this was employed to keep all sorts of products from disappearing into the black market the two keys for the lock are made of steel and are extraordinarily crude by modern standards then they're stamped with the numbers one and two these correspond with the markings on the bottom one and two so let's put these into the appropriate cores and rotate them counterclockwise which is uncommon on American locks but common on old Soviet locks after we do that the shackle can be removed so on to picking now when this was new this would have been a fairly easy lock to pick but it's not new everything on this lock is made out of either steel or iron even the cores and the pins and with age everything has rusted that makes the pins hard to move and everything feels pretty crunchy inside so it presents some pretty interesting challenges all that said let's get to work picking okay let's rotate these counterclockwise and we'll start with the core labeled number one and I'm just using a standard hook nothing on one two three four it is binding got a click out of four and five got a click out of five back to the beginning one three is but I'm sorry two is binding got a click there now three is binding got a click there nothing on four or five nothing on one another click at it to nothing on three four or five one two three four up click out of five nothing on one two is binding there we go click at it to nothing on three little click on for nothing on five we're getting lots of clicks out of each pin which probably means that they have rounded ends on the pins okay we got number one open let's move on to number two the best way to deal with rounded ends on the pins is really heavy tension but I can't do that right now because really heavy tension with all of this rust would cease all of those pins up nothing on one two three four okay five is binding tightly got a click out of five but it's still binding there we go another click out of him he feels set one two three is binding click out of three a little click on for nothing on five one two three okay for another click out of four nothing on five one two three another click out of four nothing on five little click out of one two is binding tightly there we go click Edit to nothing on three four is binding click out of four nothing on five click out of one nothing on to three another click out of four nothing on five not sure what's holding us up now there we go little click out a three and finally we open this up so that took quite a while considering that each of the cores have only five pins but they are standard pins that are very very rusty so it's not the lock it is the rusty internals that make this so tricky a lock to pick either way I think it's an interesting old lock 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

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Length: 5min 40sec (340 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 23 2019