[927] The Strongest Padlock in the World (Seriously) — Squire Stronghold SS100CS

this is the lock-picking lawyer and what you see is the squire model SS 65 CS stronghold padlock it's a fairly beefy lock here it is next to a master lock number three for comparison it's made in the UK and is rated cen grade six the highest grade under the Central European norms but Squire decided that this wasn't strong enough for their flagship padlock so a few years ago they came out with the SS atcs padlock up until a few days ago this five-pound lock was the largest in my collection and it's advertised as the strongest lock in the world at least it was and you may recall that Bosnian bill and I put that to the test at the firing range in video number 897 we put a hundred and twenty rounds into it including armor-piercing ammunition and through all of that the lock never opened well apparently squired didn't think that was good enough because they just came out with this nine and a half pound behemoth of a padlock the SS 100 CS now this lock is so new it's not even on Squires website yet or sold by any retailer that I could find this was sent to me directly by Squire now the proportions of this lock are borderline comically large it's a hundred millimetres across and that's not including the plastic just metal fifty millimeters thick and this sports a 20 millimeter thick boron alloy shackle there are several comparisons I could make to demonstrate how big it is like this master lock number three which is positively dwarfed but I like this it is more than double the weight of the largest munitions lock currently used by the US military I'm also told that this is the only padlock to qualify for the loss prevention certification board s r4 rating among other things that means this should resist a cordless angle grinder with a spare battery and three cutting discs for ten minutes that is remarkable okay on to the course and yes that was plural there are two of them in here this is a dual custody padlock meaning that you need two different keys to open it up they are both 6-pin cords with fairly pair eccentric keyways and excellent tolerances that means you would probably need a very experienced picker to open these reliably I would like to see a higher security option like Squire offers with its other stronghold padlocks and maybe that's coming in the future but for now we're gonna see what it takes to get this one open I'm going to put a pinning tray underneath it because I think it'll damage my desk with all this weight okay we're going to get some tension in here and let's get a standard hook in 18,000 click out of 1 2 is binding nice click there little click on 3 nothing on 4 5 ok 6 is binding nice click out of 6 back to the beginning nothing on 1 2 3 is binding little click there nothing on 4 5 or 6 see one two is fine three three actually feels like it could be over set I released a little tension to let it down nothing on four five or six not sure what's holding us up here one two three four click out of five there we go and I'm pulling back I was stuck under I think number three and we got this open okay let's flip this over and do the other core okay click out of one click out of two nothing on three nothing on four five and click out of six one two three I'm pushing up on four four is definitely binding but I think I'm hitting the pin in front of it let me get something a little bit deeper this is a medium hook I think a number seven there we go nice click out of number four and a little bit of a false set there let's see oh there we go number five give me some counter rotation and we got this open okay so definitely some good tolerances on there but as I said with an experienced picker you probably won't have an awful lot of trouble okay let's get this apart and there are two screws one down each side of the shackle nice beefy screws and let's see what else comes out of here if we okay there's the locking mechanism pretty simple definitely not something that can be bypassed but something that God grease all over my hands if you want to look in the bottom there we go okay we're only going to gut one of these cores let's do this one and let's relock it I actually do have the keys here Lange bring them over let's get this c-clip off and let's see which of these keys will open this perfect okay seeing lots of drill protection in there let's dump all of these key pins out and then I will give you a closer look looks like a steel pin in and all of the first what it looks like every single one of these probably four nice drill resistance and if we look at that core we can see that there are plenty of anti drill pins in there too in front of the first pen and then to between pins three and four then we have a little hardened ball bearing right at the front of the pin stack so certainly they gave some thought to someone attacking this with a drill let's get all of these situated and and then we'll get the pins the driver pins out okay a standard pin in slot one standard in two I only felt one spool in here there we go spool and slot three I don't believe I felt that one it may never have come into play because we had a really long keep in there standard in number four looks like it's a little shorter than the other ones which means there was an attempt at balanced pin stacks here that is the spool I felt I felt down on pin five and there is the last standard pin okay so it looks like some pretty normal pinning we lift this up for you all of those key pins are standard you can see some shelves on some of them they keep them from dropping too far down into the core that's an excellent excellent protection protection from bumping then for the driver pins we have one two four and six all standard and then spools in slots three and five I might move them around to places with shorter driver pins so they're a little bit more effective in the future in any case that's all I have for you today but that's not all I have for you on this lock look for some destructive attacks in the future for now though if you do have any questions or comments 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: 10min 17sec (617 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 24 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/ruthless_tippler]

The world has to unite against this man and come up with something he can't fucking pick!

[u/queuedUp]

it should be noted that it's the strongest from a destructive attack perspective.

He calls out that cores are not great against picking.

[u/wood_animal]

So the strongest lock in the world can be picked in 4 minutes...

[u/brianbot5000]

I don't understand much about lock mechanisms, but why not make it so the pins all have to be pushed in at the exact same time? Like, if you're not applying pressure then the pin will push back out? Or so that applying pressure to one actively pushes the others out, so that the only way to have them all pushed in is to push them all at the same time? It seems that he triggers one pin at a time, and as he's going the ones he's pushed in stay there.

[u/YoelRomerosSupps]

This was so informative. I have no idea what he's talking about half the time but I watched all the way through.

[u/asdfer1235]

Jeez theses padlocks double as weapons to clobber thieves!

[u/zerbey]

The lock itself is ridiculously strong, the core isn't all that great so an experienced picker like this guy will have no trouble. This lock is all about looking badass and secure.

[u/Economy_Grab]

Why even use keys? Wouldn't it make more sense to be electronic?

Cons: You can't open the lock if the battery or electronics dies.

Pros: Can't be picked.

[u/WirelessFeet]

I heard on the recent Adam Savage podcast that his been talking with him and there planning on doing something together soon. Cant wait to see what they have planned