[930] Pre-Production Review — Powerlock PL-700 Padlock

this is the lock-picking lawyer and what i have for you today is a pre-production sample of a power/lock model p 700 padlock the dutch company that makes it wanted to get my thoughts and i think they knew how to pique my interest because in their first email to me they said it is virtually impossible to crack I certainly couldn't say no to that it's a beefy lock roughly 70 millimeters across a 14 millimeter thick shackle and this weighs in at exactly 2 pounds dimensionally it is nearly identical to that a ploy model p3 5/8 however instead of a cen grade 5 rating I'm told this is designed to BCE and grade 6 if they do pull that off in the final production lock it will be impressive there are very few open shackle C and grade 6 locks out there ok on to the core it is a top loading disc detainer design with some pretty cool stainless steel bear head keys I'm told there are 12 disks inside which is I believe the most I've ever seen in a core of this design and with that many disks regardless of the build quality it's going to take some time to pick especially given the fact that the disks must be really thin to fit that many in there but there is a weakness in the design that might be exploited to get picked times down just a little bit if we look down the keyway we can see several disks that closely match the profile of the key if you give some thought to the way disks interact with the key you'll realize that those disks have to be 0 cuts so I can literally just look down the keyway with the light and tell you the disks 1 2 5 & 9 are 0 cuts that's at least some help but there are still eight other disks and it can be tricky to keep track of where your pic is in the lock the better way to use that information I think is to feel for the profile disks and just leave them alone so let's try to pick this open and then of course we will take it apart to see what's inside the first thing we're going to do as usual with cores like this is rotate all the discs as far wise as they will go and I think some of these are giving me some trouble there we go one disk was givin me trouble but I think I have them all rotated now then I'm going to get my disc detainer pic reach past the spinner up front tension disc 1 and let's get to picking this will probably take a while ok 2 is loose so it was 3 4 5 6 7 [Music] I think that's eight nine ten okay I must have skipped something over because I'm a disc eleven now let's go back to well let's just work our way backwards so that must be eleven ten nine okay number eight is binding tightly got a click out of him nothing on seven okay click out of six five I think is one of those profile discs for three two okay let's go all the way to the back it seems like the ones in the back or binding first okay number eleven it was binding I'm slipping off it there we go I think we got eleven set that was ten nine feels like one of our profile discs eight we already said it and it still feels set six is still loose nothing on five click out a four click out a three and we open this up okay took a little bit longer than most district detainer locks but it has more disks than most discs detainer locks let's see if we can take this apart and see what's inside okay I think the first thing to do is to remove the set screw that holds the core retainer shot okay we should be able to get that out now let's get a screwdriver okay now we have the actuator let's see if we can pull that out now we can drop the balls out and then we have two more screws on either side that are holding the core in place this course should come out freely now you can see it has its own little housing that should be a little bit tricky to get apart but hopefully not too bad that was easier than I was expecting okay let's okay here's our spinner and a little spring and let's drop that sidebar out as well now we have all of the disks okay disc one is that's one of our profile discs and it has a false gate in it and we have a spacer disk to another profile disk with a spacer and I mean and a false gate I'm sorry and we have a non profile disk with no false gates another non profile disk with no false gate a profile disk with a false gate now I did not run into any false gates while picking and I'm beginning to understand why that may be but let's take the rest of these disks out first to confirm that it appears that all of the non profile discs on the very last one is a non rotating disk you can see instead of that little nub that sticks out we have this full Crescent here that keeps that from rotating it at all would make it very easy to tension off of this okay the reason I did not feel any false gates while picking is because the only disc with false gates are the profile discs and every single one of those profile discs is a zero cut so when I rotated all of the discs clockwise before I started picking I actually bypassed every single false gate in there so as far as suggestions go in here if it's still possible to make changes before the production model I would dump the profile discs give every single disc false gates and don't put zero cut discs in the number one or number twelve slots I should say zero cuts or non rotating discs if you were to do all of that this would have been a lot harder to pick but the overall design without looking at the core is it's really quite good as it should be because it's almost exactly like the the ABLOY p35 eight 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

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Length: 10min 24sec (624 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 29 2019