@@mail4billgo check into full fledge casting. You’ll be able to use hotter and stronger steel for a long lasting key. That is a very soft metal and would likely break on anything that’s not a very smooth operating lock.
@@zachlindsey3715 Yep. This product is for a more or less disposable 1 use key. You get a hold of the legitimate key for a few seconds to make the cast then use the cast key to slip in.
I feel like it kinda missed the mark. You can't "quickly" get an impression of a key, without completely disassembling the kit. I feel like a "Covert" kit would have quick and easy access to the impression clay and press, without needing to disassemble all of it. The rest of the kit would be best separate from the impression insert, so you can covertly get the impression, then retreat to your kit to make the copy.
@@xmikemurphyx Define "quickly" to you. Doesn't mean it's the same for everyone. If you were trying to make a key like this, you'd be prepared to do so -- if you wanted it "quickly". Otherwise, it's a few minutes.
As a professional patternmaker, I'm in awe. Metal casting usually is messy, dirty, heavy, loud and large. This is pretty, like a toy steam engine. I love it, the technology is so cool. ❤
@moroteseoinage There are lots of metal casting, moulding, and patternmaking videos out there. I don't think I would greatly contribute. I'd just increase the number.
@@erintyres3609 Wood's is indeed the bomb. It has saved my butt on more that one occasion where I stripped something out and needed to get it working just long enough to get it properly fixed. Everybody should have some in their toolbox.
I teach a course in User Experience Design and want to let you know that your discussion referencing user testing is much appreciated and I will be sharing this with my students as an excellent example of product development. Many thanks to you, LPL and Bosnianbill for sharing your knowledge all these years!
@@ViktorRzh LPL answered my "Why so many threads?" question less than a minute from when it popped into my head. It's a design decision that seems to make the UX worse, but was actually done to solve a problem testing identified.
@@ViktorRzh my instruction is focused to provide guidance to students exploring career paths in digital technology. I present a learning chunk/module to introduce concepts and strategies of design for accessibility (think wcag... ) and another for physical design with ergonomics in mind... but in the end it all comes down to validation through testing - and LPL did a fine job of expressing the user-development testing phase.
@@wayne00k chatgpt, write a short mocking poem regarding incompetence original promt and autors of given promt. P.S. 3.5? Really? I can detect this style while being half asleeep.
Awesome tool. It should be noted that someone can make the impression of the key, then make the casting at a later time if so needed. I think that's what makes it fit into the "even if you only have access to the key for a few seconds" part. Pre-staging the mold and just throwing the key in, clamping it, then taking the key back could take just 10 or 20 seconds, then you can go along and make the casting at a later time.
Only if you've already separated the impression part from the rest of the kit, which requires entire disassembly. It's packed well for travel, but not for covert key copying.
@@xmikemurphyxyou think you would ever be copying a key with zero premeditation? If you're trying to get the impression the only thing you need in your pocket is the clamshell with the clay in it already. It's smaller, nobody would notice it and you get your mold done in 2s if you have reasonable grip strength. Why would you even consider taking the kit apart and putting back together 3 times part of that task
What is a non-criminal reason why anyone needs to copy a key they only have access to for a few seconds? This channel talks about "locksport," locks as puzzles, and about security/evaluating locks, and some of what LPL sells could conceivably be used that way. But I'm curious if anyone can think of a scenario where this kit is useful for something non-felonious.
It's useful for Red Team physical penetration testing of secure facilities. Like what DeviantOllam is engaged in legally. Or if you really need to give a copy of a key to someone in an emergency and you have neither a spare nor the time to go to a locksmith.
You can really tell when a product is designed by someone that knows exactly what it would be used for and what exactly it needs, beautiful product mr. LPL, congrats on this one!
the housing, spoon, lighter, and clay are each under $1. With a 3D printer, I have everything I need lying around... except the ingots. The low-melting-point metal can be obtained online for under $10 (or much less if you are hard-core DIY) After taxes, delivery, and currency conversion the kit is $150. I'm ordering some ingots...
One of the British SOE gadgets (of WW2) was a tin plate box the size of two plain (no filter!) cigarettes. This contained two matches, some woods metal, some plasticine (modelling material of the '40s), some talc and a paper clip. The whole outfit was as big as a Bic lighter! The paper clip was to fold into tweezers to hold the tin lid while the metal melted over the match flame, then you pushed the paper clip into the woods metal in the mould to make a handle for the newly made key.
@@nathanmiller9381 unlikely, most of the SOE stuff wasn't even branded by the manufacturer (e.g. the Wellrod-pistol was made by BSA, but had no markings) ... very cool stuff though.
"Well, we're gonna sit right here until you inject every bit of that, Mister. That's what your grandpa did to me when he caught me smoking and I never smoked again"
From Wikipedia: "Wood's metal is toxic because it contains lead and cadmium, and contamination of bare skin is considered harmful. Vapour from cadmium-containing alloys is also known to pose a danger to humans.[9] Cadmium poisoning carries the risk of cancer, anosmia (loss of sense of smell), and damage to the liver, kidneys, nerves, bones, and respiratory system. Field's metal is a non-toxic alternative."
@@mcblaggart8565 It's only just managing to reach melting point, it'll require a lot more energy to reach boiling point (1700°C) and release significant amounts of vapour. A mini lighter is going to run out of fuel well before then (and probably burn your fingers). Sure, it'll emit *some* before then, but you'll breathe worse just crossing the road.
@@mcblaggart8565 Pretty sure there are plenty warnings about fumes in the instructions :P Immediately found it reading their shop page at least. Aand checked their instruction manual, there's a red warning text about it in the point where you start melting the metal.
@@DeanWhiteUrbanPrintzSunderland Not quite. Wood's Metal melts at 156F. *Close* to body temperature, in the context of metal melting points, but you won't have to worry about it melting in your hand like Gallium will.
@@coredumperror Wood's Metal is toxic isn't it? I'm sure it has Cadmium in it (as well as lead). But yes, it is a stronger and has a higher melt point.
Third, Wood's Metal contains some significantly toxic components, such as lead and cadmium. In the conditions they are being handled there, it should be safe but, just to be sure, do not breathe in any vapors when heating, and wash your hands well after handling the key. VERY cool device! 😀
Field's metal has no lead or cadmium, a slightly lower melting point, and a significantly higher price tag because it's main constituent is indium. The jury is still out on breathing indium vapor, though.
I have a few hundred pounds of something I was told is woods metal. It was used to make moulds for taking x rays. I should take a chunk to a scrapyard and see if they have one of those laser guns that can tell me exactly what it's made from.
@@Swishersweetcigarilo Cerrobend™and Bendalloy™ are brand names, they are Wood's metal. It is used for making custom shaped apertures in radiation treatment, maybe that's what they meant when they said x-rays. Any markings on the metal or the container it's in?
@@quokka_11 no markings. My neighbor scrapped a hospital after it closed down. Lots of different shaped chunks with a little bit of Styrofoam beads stuck to the surface. He melted a fair amount into hockey pucks. I think he said he wanted to cast them into bullets for an antique rifle before he realized it wasn't lead and was a lot more valuable. He kept it around for a rainy day fund but I would think that it would be hard to find a buyer for so much on the secondary market.
While impressioning is a very effective attack when it's applicable, it's not the sort of thing the average person needs to worry about. It's an attack that's mostly used to get extended access to an area the attacker already has some limited access to in the first place. It's much more of a problem for corporate espionage than it is for securing your motorcycle, or whatever.
@@faithgrins It's one of the reasons why it's a terrible idea to give your keys to a vallet parking service. Most people have the car key on the same keychain they use for their house key.
It should be noted to hold the lighter vertical and not tilted. That will stop the lighter from heating the safety strip and the flint wheel up. Lighters are only made to light for a few seconds. If heated in the wrong orientation it will weaken the plastic that retains the flint wheel and it will/can shoot out. Best case scenario. Worst case is you will burn your thumb. If you do burn your thumb, pinch your earlobe. Cough cough trust me. I've burnt my thumb a few times. 😉 I love this channel!
@@zim_the_vixenheat dispersion. Heat is energy and likes to find the path of least resistance. When you burn your finger and pull it away it's in the open air, which is a very good heat insulator and doesn't want to change temperature, so the heat energy stays in your finger and moves deeper. Since it takes time for this energy to move, you have a split second window to pinch your earlobe which is fatty, making it a much better heat conductor than your boney finger. If you're quick this can allow the heat from your "burn" to disperse through your earlobe fat, causing your finger to cool down by releasing the heat instead of absorbing it. Your earlobe will be fine there's barely any nerves.
I've learned to hold lighters tilted the opposite way, with the striking wheel being lower than the flame. The metal shroud gets hot, but you don't have to touch that to relight the flame. That's even better than holding vertically, isn't it?
@@jayme3181 Mould maker (aka pattern maker) is a profession too. Back when the automotive industry was in its infancy the race to cast single-piece V8 blocks, with acceptable yields, was all the rage. Casting a block with that many water and oil passages, that weren't vertical, was a major challenge. What was learned from this, once they succeeded, led to so many advances in other consumer goods that it's hard to imagine today. Trivial as it sounds, the perfecting art of pouring molten metal into tamped sand has been as instrumental to the technological revolution as the precision lathe and the micrometer.
@@andersjjensen Hi Anders, thanks for sharing this interesting story. I was not saying caster was not a job which required talent or one in which you could not become extremely skilled - but that to me, 'profession' is associated with a job in which you 'profess'. I.e. that the thing you are selling is your knowledge or opinion, such as a lawyer or teacher. Nowadays people claim to be a professional anything (footballer for example) but to me these are jobs - not anything to be ashamed of, of course. A master craftsman has rare and refined talent. But it's not a profession or vocation, these words had meanings which still apply for me at least 😀
The video began to play while i was out of the room getting a snack and a soda...... imagine my bewilderment upon returning at 3:49 as LPL says "....remove the retention band and our lighter and spoon come off..." followed by him unscrewing the end of something and showing a white powder. I guess in my confusion i missed him saying baby powder but upon restarting the video things began to make sense. You got me LPL. lol
@@Throckmorton.Scribblemonger 8600 sq ft. excluding the bonus room in the attic.. lol joking i live in an apartment. lol I have ADHD tho Notice i said it began while i was out of the room. What i was watching wasn't very good so i was not in a rush and just left it playing, I got side tracked before finally getting the snack and returning. adding to my confusion was the fact i did not even know this video was next. I knew that voice was the LPL but what my mind was thinking was on the screen certainly was not. lol
It is really cool. I got my second one to work fine, the first was a learning experience on the amount of pressure to use compressing the mold. Very nice.
I’ve used something similar for decades, sometimes if you don’t get the mold perfectly flat you can still get the key to work by juggling it. But I always used a utility knife to shave excess clay off of the mold. I found the higher the melting point, the stronger the key. And I discovered several other little tricks over the years as well.
You're going to, single-handedly (of course along with the team of people who made this product), change the lock industry. I'm buying this. It's so cool!
the only change to the lock industry is gonna be all the new service calls about people breaking their homemade keys in their locks! or perhaps a couple lawsuits about bic lighters blowing up in peoples faces and/or people pouring toxic molten metal over themselves.
Man oh man, I wish I had one of these when I was an Apartment Complex manager. It would have been so useful when a tenant needed a key and the only one I had in the office was already the backup.
Many tenants would have broken them off in locks, despite warnings that they are much weaker than normal keys. Then you'd have a much bigger issue on your hands,
my apartment complex removed the key deadbolt locks,replaced them with Doormakaba electronic deadbolt locks. you use a RFID tag as a key,or an app on your smartphone,Bluetooth. the lock connects to the office via your WiFi,so they can lock you out any time they want,they log or track entries,i'm not sure if that's just the phone app or both. the maintenance guys have the app on their company phones. On Jan 1,I got locked out because the batteries died,they reached the end of their 2 year life. But at least it can't be picked or bump-keyed.
@@JayWye52 Locks making use of RFID readers tend to have their own weaknesses and LPL has shown a few of them in videos over the years, though of course it depends on the particular lock as to which ones if any are applicable. Many electronic locks in general are vulnerable to magnets however so that'd be a place most criminals looking to break into one would probably start. That said, they do have the benefit of keeping out more "traditional" crooks, simply because most wouldn't bother looking up info on a specific lock to find its weaknesses, so if they were going for a non-destructive approach, there's a chance they'd just look elsewhere. Of course, most criminals just go the destructive route anyhow, since it's easier and they care more about speed than anything else.
As someone who has used Wood's metal for various random projects, I can tell you it's pretty cool stuff (will melt in boiling water). Also, keep in mind it has lead and cadmium in it, so wash hands after handling it!
I just finished watching Adam Savage building a lock and mentioning you, and here you are with a fresh 11-min-old video building a key, gotta love the universe sometimes! :)
@@dudebroguymate Seriously. I had stopped watching them regularly a while ago, but I unsubbed and haven't watched a single video after they did a shit review and then sold the prototype without permission for that specialty GPU cooler. Proved conclusively that they don't care about actual technical accuracy and only go for memes.
When I was a kid, there was a series of books focusing on a young man named "Tom Swift" (apparently there's been many Tom Swifts, this set came out in the '90s). In one of the books he had a little gizmo that could "take a picture" inside of a lock and then make a key out of what it "saw" inside. This is just about the closest thing to that I've ever seen, and I gotta say it's darn cool.
LPL did a video on something that does pretty much exactly what you're describing, with a camera inserted into a keyhole. It's video 1209 on his channel
It would be straightforward to do that with a picture of the key; visual examination of the inside of a lock sounds harder to automate. But LPL did have a video where he showed a camera that would go inside a keyway.
There are puns called Tom Swifties named after the book series. The author didn't like using the phrase "said Tom", so he used other words e. g. "remarked Tom"
More than anything I love the engineering of the kit, it's so well thought out. It's elegantly functional! I don't know when I would ever use it but I want one. 😅
Good kit. I appreciate that you chose an alloy that is hard enough at room temperature, and easy enough to melt with a relatively cool heat source. While the combination of parts is nothing new, the packaging is.
The only difference is that Q Branch would issue 007 with hyperspecial Unobtanium ingots that cost a significant fraction of the cost of a torpedo boat that melt flawlessly in ten seconds, stay flawlessly molten for fifteen seconds after heat is removed, and harden to approximately the strength of rolled homogenous armor plate in another ten.
Ive 3d printed almost the exact same clamshell and used non-air dry clay before. I then used low melt aluminum (usually) to cast. Same exact method here. However having everything in one convenient package is amazing.
And not too far in the future, a Raspberry Pi board that attaches nicely to the back of it all and allows you to copy and program the chips to go along with the keys that need them!
I don't think I'd ever want to cast a key copy, but damn, that is some SWEET UX and product design. Product manufacturers can learn so much from all the small details on this.
Very clever. I used to do casting in bronze and silver, and I can testify that molton metal is hot. At my student dorm, in the laundry room were we had 440 volts, I once poured silver into a plaster mold that wasn't completely dry. It exploded, sending droplets and streams of hot metal across the top of the washing machine and onto the floor. I was barefoot (silly me) and had to do quite a fancy dance. Fun to think about later but rather scary at the time.
as a kid I used to melt lead wheelweights on the kitchen gas stove,then cast little lead ingots. I put a wet miscast ingot back into my little lead pot,and it exploded lead over the burner,clogging it. the end of that hobby. Luckily,I was not harmed. Lesson learned.
I am a longtime fan of the Lock-picking Lawyer, and I have appreciated his mission of getting lock manufacturers to improve their wear. However, this device seems to straight up, be targeted towards thieves. I can think of very few situations why an honest person would need such a device that works so quickly and unobtrusively. Another thing to keep in mind… Woods metal is 25% lead. It is toxic to inhale its fumes.
Yeah, I mean the shop is literally called covert instruments. I already got strange wibes from one his multi lock picking tools that gets into cars as well. The wording in the video as well.. “only having access to the original (key) for a few seconds”
Even if you think that this is targeted just to thieves, then it still serves a purpose to show how easy making a copy can be. Just think that someone can make a copy of your key and enter in quick, quiet manner - enter in a way that would not draw suspicion in broad daylight. This is still a lesson.
@@tarps2 Why did you get strange vibes from a tool for getting into cars? It takes less than a second to break through a car window, and thieves do it in broad daylight (called "bipping" now, I believe). If a thief goes out of their way to acquire special tools and skills to steal from cars without damaging them, that's honestly preferable.
@@jaro6985 Hazard class: Acute toxicity, inhalation (Category 2). Fatal if inhaled (H330). Do not breathe dust or fumes (P260). Hazard class: Germ cell mutagenicity (Category 2). Suspected of causing genetic defects (H341). Obtain special instructions before use (P201). Do not handle until all safety precautions have been read and understood (P202). Use personal protective equipment as required (P281). Hazard class: Carcinogenicity (Category 2). Suspected of causing cancer (H351). Obtain special instructions before use (P201). Do not handle until all safety precautions have been read and understood (P202). Use personal protective equipment as required (P281). Elemental lead is a possible human carcinogen (IARC-2B). Hazard class: Reproductive toxicity (Category 1A). May damage fertility or the unborn child (H360). Hazard class: Acute toxicity, oral (Category 4). Harmful if swallowed (H302). Do not eat, drink or smoke when using this product (P270). Hazard class: Specific target organ toxicity, repeated exposure (Category 1). Causes damage to organs (H372).
Woods Metal - It is a eutectic, fusible alloy of 50% bismuth, 26.7% lead, 13.3% tin, and 10% cadmium by mass. It has a melting point of approximately 70 °C (158 °F).
@@rmo9808 Nah, as I melt lead to cast slugs and fishing weights - simply never heard of this stuff as gallium was the only low melting point metal I was familiar with so I figured this was an alloy of it. I'm just surprised that alloy can be melted at 158 F as the lowest melting point of those four metals is tin at 450 F?
@@seanfoltz7645 The science behind their lower melting point is pretty interesting. The bond between the different metals is unstable leading to a lower melting point.
They should consider using Rose's Metal. Both Wood's Metal and Rose's Metal contain lead, but Rose's Metal contains NO cadmium which is the much more hazardous metal. Rose's metal melts at 205°F instead of 158°F, but that should still be pretty easy using a butane lighter. They're about the same price and Rose's Metal, while not that strong, is a fair bit stronger than Wood's Mental so the keys would last a little longer.
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@@heatshield If you already have the key legitimately, why would you need to make another one? If you need a spare, you'd just take it to a professional key-cutter rather than make your own vastly inferior version.
The Chinese shipping people are very, very good to pack things tightly. When our factory first started to get deliveries from our Chinese company, a whole shipment 20-foot container was packed very tightly, BUT they mixed everything, so to fit in as tightly as possible, it took our receiving dept 2 whole days to sort the shipment out. A couple of more was on the way. But we stopped this asap. After that, we've had less density in the containers, but they were offloaded in minutes instead of days.
@@mk_rexx _golf clap_ edit: I originally made that bold instead of italics and my brain immediately went "omg you can't use that tone at the club".. what is wrong with me?
TBH. this is among the least impressive (and most accessible) of trick seen on this channel. All you need is low temperature alloy used for "melt out core mandrels" making hollow carbon fiber object (where dimensions of internal void matter). And some "moon sand" or similar silicone based play doo for making the mold.
I use Wood's Metal for low melt solder to remove difficult to heat printed circuit boards. It is also used in water fire sprinklers. Interesting application here.
@@_yreg eh, I don't see how you can protect against key duplication without fundamentally changing the definition of "key", so I don't really see what the problem is
I built such a thing, around thirty years ago. Some modeling clay from craft store and I forget what I mixed that made it pretty dark color, but stiffened it a bit. Made me a little hinged cover for the clay. Body heat kept it soft enough to use. Used talc, for same release agent. Made my blank of JB weld. Cleaned that up, and i had a key machine. Other option I could do, is I do lost wax casting for jewelry. Could make my model key from wax and cast that. I wondered if that could be problem with shrinkage, in casting. - May be good way to make extra key for a locking receiver pin for my trailer hitch. Have not found a key smith who could make one.
Can't do much with modern car besides open the door and set the alarm off. The car won't start, but you could steal stuff later without breaking a window.
Lipowitz metals are cool. I worked with them for 7 years. Most I've seen contain toxic heavy metals like lead and/or cadmium. What are these ingots made from. And yeah that spoon also had me thinking of coke, crack or heroine. 80s kid. I can't help it. Miami Vice and Dare! taught us 🤣
Their description says it's Wood's Metal which contains both lead and cadmium. They should consider using Rose's Metal. Both Wood's Metal and Rose's Metal contain lead, but Rose's Metal contains NO Cadmium which is the much more hazardous metal. Rose's metal melts at 205°F instead of 158°F, but that should still be pretty easy using a butane lighter. They're about the same price and Rose's Metal, while not that strong, is a fair bit stronger than Wood's Mental so the keys would last a little longer.
4:10 Imagine being pulled over and trying to explain it’s baby powder but also not directly saying it’s a lock picking/impression kit (I guess unless you’re a registered lock picker)
My only concern is getting the casting metal preferably from somewhere else besides just Covert Instruments in case the worst thing happens and the company goes out of business. This kit is really well timed because I have an Abloy lock that no one in my area has the tools to cut a key for and this kit will finally let me make the back up key(s) we have been hoping to get.
Woods Metal: used commonly as a pressure release seal on tanks of compressed gasses so that it will melt and release the pressure before the tank explodes if exposed to fire. Also used as a fuse link to close fire doors or activate suppression systems, but those are sometimes special alloys designed with specific temperatures in mind, although always quite low
Quick safety tip with the lighter, Don't hold it sideways, You can risk melting the plastic mount for the striker or melt the gas tip off and cause it to quickly release its pressure all at once causing a not so fun boom.
Allright this actually one of the coolest tools you've come up with. This goes to show how Locksport is actually advancing Locksmithing. However I'm sure there are many Locksmiths that would turn their nose up at it and instead spend $300 on a HPC pocket code reader.
Awesome, only the lighters are not made to be lit over long times, it can easily overheat the plastic parts and destroy the striker mechanism, this happens to me all the time when using them for various stupid purposes :D EDIT: I am not shooting H, I just mean when working in the workshop and stuff :D
Yes you right...the plastic on the lighters gets hot they fall apart...soooo you buy them wind proof lighters ones that are like a mini blow torch.... possibly stainless steel tea spoon them lighters are like a blow torch...😊😊😊
@@rita8684 Yeah, the blow torch style would also get it done quicker, but it would not fit the footprint, and the ones that did would have only little gas in them. A zippo style would I think burn slightly colder (and you have to topi it up if you don't use it enough as the fluid evaporates. But yeah, nitpicking, whatever the case, this is a cool set!
@@CharlieTheAstronaut yes as you wrote nit picking..lol...when people get the set...wont take long work out the lighter melt the thing ect to long..issues....😀
its also 10% cadmium 😬 he felt the need to explain that fire can burn you but not that melting woods metal gives off really nasty fumes and is toxic to handle 😭
@@maxinehardy9411 Yeah that's a big disclaimer that needs to be there. I only hope that given the low temperatures involved, it wouldn't burn and fume but only melt. If that's the case, it would mainly be a danger with people handling it w/ bare hands. I'm not sure how much you would have to accidentally ingest to get poisoning but I imagine this is one of those "use once, let it attract dust on the shelf" things for most people
@@maxinehardy9411Yes, the cadmium is a lot worse than the lead. They should consider using Rose's Metal. Both Wood's Metal and Rose's Metal contain lead, but Rose's Metal contains NO Cadmium which is the much more hazardous metal. Rose's metal melts at 205°F instead of 158°F, but that should still be pretty easy using a butane lighter. They're about the same price and Rose's Metal, while not that strong, is a fair bit stronger than Wood's Mental so the keys would last a little longer.
For anyone wondering, lpl did a video with the modern rogue about this like 2 years ago. "Early lpl key casting lore" and he explains a lot more in the process like how he uses a silicon ice cube mold to melt a large woods metal ingot into it
Unless you are a professional $90 is a very steep price on something you might not ever use. If you do use it often you have to spend $15 on clay/metal refills. I think the little spoon should also come with that refill kit as it seems like after a few pours it will start to degrade or get smaller due to the metal sticking to it. I think at $40ish you would sell 4x as many.
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Never thought I'd see LPL cooking rocks on video, but here we are...
It is baby powder man cmon
"This is the DrugUsingLawyer, and today I'm going to do some crack cocaine."
Ehem, you mean “””ingots”””
Adding the baking soda means 25 years minimum.
I'd be more interested into how to make meth into a decent decongestant.
"No, Officer, this isn't a heroin kit."
That was my first thought as well
"No that's release agent on my nose actually"
I had to check it wasn't an April 1st video 😂
Considering what the kit actually does I think we'd be better off with the confusion. LOL
You beat me to it lol
I saw a guy in the donut shop bathroom lighting a spoon like that; I'm going to tell my kid he was making a key now. Thanks!
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Was it a off duty police officer? lol.
Donut shop? Did he have his "baby powder" in an evidence bag he collected on duty?
😂😂😂😂 amazing
For years he taught us how to pick the locks now he straight up telling us how to fabricate the keys
I work with a group that owns an old church - there's an antique key for the front door. Now I can make another!
@@mail4billgo check into full fledge casting. You’ll be able to use hotter and stronger steel for a long lasting key. That is a very soft metal and would likely break on anything that’s not a very smooth operating lock.
Parker approves.
@@zachlindsey3715 Yep. This product is for a more or less disposable 1 use key. You get a hold of the legitimate key for a few seconds to make the cast then use the cast key to slip in.
@@nobodyimportant2470 agreed. This is like a 3d printed gun you can only use once.
This has to be one of the most comprehensive tools I've seen. LPL put a lot of thought into the design.
Except for how to make it look a little less like you're cooking crack!
I feel like it kinda missed the mark. You can't "quickly" get an impression of a key, without completely disassembling the kit. I feel like a "Covert" kit would have quick and easy access to the impression clay and press, without needing to disassemble all of it. The rest of the kit would be best separate from the impression insert, so you can covertly get the impression, then retreat to your kit to make the copy.
@@xmikemurphyx just walk around with the puddy part pre rolled and you can do the rest at home. It really would only take a few seconds.
I expect to see these things showing up in movies in five years or so.
@@xmikemurphyx Define "quickly" to you. Doesn't mean it's the same for everyone. If you were trying to make a key like this, you'd be prepared to do so -- if you wanted it "quickly". Otherwise, it's a few minutes.
As a professional patternmaker, I'm in awe. Metal casting usually is messy, dirty, heavy, loud and large. This is pretty, like a toy steam engine. I love it, the technology is so cool. ❤
You should start a TH-cam channel
The Wood's metal is essential. Its melting point is 158 degrees Fahrenheit. If he had to melt any other metal, it would be much more difficult.
I bet you don't use an alloy that melts at 70C.
@moroteseoinage There are lots of metal casting, moulding, and patternmaking videos out there. I don't think I would greatly contribute. I'd just increase the number.
@@erintyres3609 Wood's is indeed the bomb. It has saved my butt on more that one occasion where I stripped something out and needed to get it working just long enough to get it properly fixed. Everybody should have some in their toolbox.
This man is a genius! Hitting at least two separate markets with one product
3 if you count the lighter.
@@dansherman1980 what’s the second???
Baby powder.
Lockpicking Tool Market, Theft Market (people employed in stores that have access to keys are jumping for joy right now), Baby Powder, and Lighters.
@@Havok135 hmmm put it like that it makes more sense.
What are the odds a cop thinks this is drug paraphernalia if they find it on you? And imagine trying to explain what it actually is.
"it's not drugs, it's a tool to quickly clone keys"
It's 2024, no police will do anything to you
@@pittuk6500are you sheltered?
@@pittuk6500 can i come to your planet ... please ?
Depending on you plan to use it that could be a feature.
Your honor, I promise the small spoon, lighter, and unidentified white powder are part of my job
No officer That's not my drug kit.That's my burglary kit😂😂😂
LPL is trying to get people arrested so they need his other services.
understandable have a nice day
Not burglary kit. Key replication kit. What you use your new key for, or if you use it at all, is another question.
No officer, that's baby powder. I promise
"You will be violently kidnapped and locked in a cage for possession of a device I don't understand"
I teach a course in User Experience Design and want to let you know that your discussion referencing user testing is much appreciated and I will be sharing this with my students as an excellent example of product development.
Many thanks to you, LPL and Bosnianbill for sharing your knowledge all these years!
Jenuenly interested - what point you want to teach by this video?
@@ViktorRzh LPL answered my "Why so many threads?" question less than a minute from when it popped into my head. It's a design decision that seems to make the UX worse, but was actually done to solve a problem testing identified.
@@ViktorRzh my instruction is focused to provide guidance to students exploring career paths in digital technology. I present a learning chunk/module to introduce concepts and strategies of design for accessibility (think wcag... ) and another for physical design with ergonomics in mind... but in the end it all comes down to validation through testing - and LPL did a fine job of expressing the user-development testing phase.
@@wayne00k chatgpt, write a short mocking poem regarding incompetence original promt and autors of given promt. P.S. 3.5? Really? I can detect this style while being half asleeep.
@@ViktorRzh I have no idea what you are intending to express
most wholesome use of lighter and spoon I've seen in a long time
Awesome tool. It should be noted that someone can make the impression of the key, then make the casting at a later time if so needed. I think that's what makes it fit into the "even if you only have access to the key for a few seconds" part. Pre-staging the mold and just throwing the key in, clamping it, then taking the key back could take just 10 or 20 seconds, then you can go along and make the casting at a later time.
Whooosh
Only if you've already separated the impression part from the rest of the kit, which requires entire disassembly. It's packed well for travel, but not for covert key copying.
@@xmikemurphyxyou think you would ever be copying a key with zero premeditation?
If you're trying to get the impression the only thing you need in your pocket is the clamshell with the clay in it already. It's smaller, nobody would notice it and you get your mold done in 2s if you have reasonable grip strength.
Why would you even consider taking the kit apart and putting back together 3 times part of that task
What is a non-criminal reason why anyone needs to copy a key they only have access to for a few seconds? This channel talks about "locksport," locks as puzzles, and about security/evaluating locks, and some of what LPL sells could conceivably be used that way. But I'm curious if anyone can think of a scenario where this kit is useful for something non-felonious.
It's useful for Red Team physical penetration testing of secure facilities. Like what DeviantOllam is engaged in legally. Or if you really need to give a copy of a key to someone in an emergency and you have neither a spare nor the time to go to a locksmith.
You can really tell when a product is designed by someone that knows exactly what it would be used for and what exactly it needs, beautiful product mr. LPL, congrats on this one!
Didn't know LPL was into drugs. TIL.
designed to make money out of common basic materials in cute kids toy form factor.
Times I’ve needed this in my life: ~1
My want of this neat kit: 100%
the housing, spoon, lighter, and clay are each under $1. With a 3D printer, I have everything I need lying around... except the ingots.
The low-melting-point metal can be obtained online for under $10 (or much less if you are hard-core DIY)
After taxes, delivery, and currency conversion the kit is $150.
I'm ordering some ingots...
@@dl5244yeah let me just go buy a 3D printer….
Ironically, ‘1’ and ‘100%’ are of the same value
One of the British SOE gadgets (of WW2) was a tin plate box the size of two plain (no filter!) cigarettes. This contained two matches, some woods metal, some plasticine (modelling material of the '40s), some talc and a paper clip. The whole outfit was as big as a Bic lighter! The paper clip was to fold into tweezers to hold the tin lid while the metal melted over the match flame, then you pushed the paper clip into the woods metal in the mould to make a handle for the newly made key.
would love to see a picture, sounds cool as hell. would the kit have a serial number?
Video or picture please... if you don't have access to one draw it up please :)
@@nathanmiller9381 unlikely, most of the SOE stuff wasn't even branded by the manufacturer (e.g. the Wellrod-pistol was made by BSA, but had no markings) ... very cool stuff though.
>woods metal
If you are going to name a metal after a person "Woods" is a terrible fucking name
@@wwickeddogg Hugh Weddell missed his cue ...
“Stephen.. what are you cooking in there?”
“..uh..um..drugs”
"Well, we're gonna sit right here until you inject every bit of that, Mister. That's what your grandpa did to me when he caught me smoking and I never smoked again"
@@Nightenstaff Well, at least you'll never cook this up again if you had to inject it...
That scene from family guy, with the cookie monster in the bathroom stall gets me everytime...
Was that the cross dressing kid?
@@bmw328igearhead "come on come on! Whaatt!"
From Wikipedia: "Wood's metal is toxic because it contains lead and cadmium, and contamination of bare skin is considered harmful. Vapour from cadmium-containing alloys is also known to pose a danger to humans.[9] Cadmium poisoning carries the risk of cancer, anosmia (loss of sense of smell), and damage to the liver, kidneys, nerves, bones, and respiratory system. Field's metal is a non-toxic alternative."
"No, Officer, this isn't my heroine stash. This is the kit I use to duplicate keys."
You can put those handcuffs on me, but you can never keep me locked up
And a heroine who had that kit wouldn't stay stashed for long!
It's not a hero stash either.
AKA "possession of burglary tools". if you're not a licensed locksmith or on your own property.
That answer will get you arrested regardless. Drugs? Breaking and Entering? Yep - cuffs inbound
Who else was halfway expecting spacers to accommodate adding this to our covert companion? lol - Nice job LPL!
Maybe a mask for the lead and cadmium fumes. Or at least a warning label.
Not trying to be mean, just not a fan of heavy metals.
No
@@mcblaggart8565 Going by Occam's Razor, it's probably just lead-free pewter.
@@mcblaggart8565 It's only just managing to reach melting point, it'll require a lot more energy to reach boiling point (1700°C) and release significant amounts of vapour. A mini lighter is going to run out of fuel well before then (and probably burn your fingers). Sure, it'll emit *some* before then, but you'll breathe worse just crossing the road.
@@mcblaggart8565 Pretty sure there are plenty warnings about fumes in the instructions :P
Immediately found it reading their shop page at least. Aand checked their instruction manual, there's a red warning text about it in the point where you start melting the metal.
What i'm most impressed is that this metal can melt this quick and yet be this strong to be used as a key.
exactly!!
It looks like Galium. Your body temperature can melt this, so don't put it in your pocket.
@@DeanWhiteUrbanPrintzSunderland Not quite. Wood's Metal melts at 156F. *Close* to body temperature, in the context of metal melting points, but you won't have to worry about it melting in your hand like Gallium will.
Never use this duplicate key on the door because it is very fragile and will not bear the load and will break inside the lock.
@@coredumperror Wood's Metal is toxic isn't it? I'm sure it has Cadmium in it (as well as lead). But yes, it is a stronger and has a higher melt point.
Baby powder yup I am sure that's what the cops are going to think of first. LOL
Is the best source of asbestos I know of off hand.
Coca powder will make the key stronger and more confident.
😂
@@WinterInTheForest its a hell of a release agent.
Hey, we're still in April!
I heard the Mission Impossible theme in my head the whole time I was watching this.
Dude. Chef's kiss.
Bond..
I heard Bond...James Bond...
I instantly thought of mission impossible too!!
Take those ear buds out. They're easy to forget.
Might be a good opportunity to add a tension wrench, so that you can insert the key, but turn with the wrench as to not break the key.
Anyone that has this kit already has a tension wrench in their pocket.
Third, Wood's Metal contains some significantly toxic components, such as lead and cadmium. In the conditions they are being handled there, it should be safe but, just to be sure, do not breathe in any vapors when heating, and wash your hands well after handling the key.
VERY cool device! 😀
Field's metal has no lead or cadmium, a slightly lower melting point, and a significantly higher price tag because it's main constituent is indium.
The jury is still out on breathing indium vapor, though.
I have a few hundred pounds of something I was told is woods metal. It was used to make moulds for taking x rays. I should take a chunk to a scrapyard and see if they have one of those laser guns that can tell me exactly what it's made from.
@quokka_11 have you ever bendaloy or cerrobend?
@@Swishersweetcigarilo Cerrobend™and Bendalloy™ are brand names, they are Wood's metal. It is used for making custom shaped apertures in radiation treatment, maybe that's what they meant when they said x-rays. Any markings on the metal or the container it's in?
@@quokka_11 no markings. My neighbor scrapped a hospital after it closed down. Lots of different shaped chunks with a little bit of Styrofoam beads stuck to the surface. He melted a fair amount into hockey pucks. I think he said he wanted to cast them into bullets for an antique rifle before he realized it wasn't lead and was a lot more valuable. He kept it around for a rainy day fund but I would think that it would be hard to find a buyer for so much on the secondary market.
This is both cool and frightening at the same time.
While impressioning is a very effective attack when it's applicable, it's not the sort of thing the average person needs to worry about. It's an attack that's mostly used to get extended access to an area the attacker already has some limited access to in the first place. It's much more of a problem for corporate espionage than it is for securing your motorcycle, or whatever.
@@faithgrinsHehe...so there's this currently fomenting revolution...
@@faithgrins It's one of the reasons why it's a terrible idea to give your keys to a vallet parking service. Most people have the car key on the same keychain they use for their house key.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo Lookit Mr. Moneybags here with a house and a car. =P
@@faithgrins I bet fancy pants here even got himself a car hole too.
It should be noted to hold the lighter vertical and not tilted. That will stop the lighter from heating the safety strip and the flint wheel up. Lighters are only made to light for a few seconds. If heated in the wrong orientation it will weaken the plastic that retains the flint wheel and it will/can shoot out. Best case scenario. Worst case is you will burn your thumb. If you do burn your thumb, pinch your earlobe. Cough cough trust me. I've burnt my thumb a few times. 😉 I love this channel!
Pinch your earlobe? with your burnt thumb? genuine question, we aren't sure we get what the suggestion is or what the goal is.
@@zim_the_vixenheat dispersion. Heat is energy and likes to find the path of least resistance. When you burn your finger and pull it away it's in the open air, which is a very good heat insulator and doesn't want to change temperature, so the heat energy stays in your finger and moves deeper. Since it takes time for this energy to move, you have a split second window to pinch your earlobe which is fatty, making it a much better heat conductor than your boney finger. If you're quick this can allow the heat from your "burn" to disperse through your earlobe fat, causing your finger to cool down by releasing the heat instead of absorbing it. Your earlobe will be fine there's barely any nerves.
@@wmbtech oh cool! ty for explanation :).
I've learned to hold lighters tilted the opposite way, with the striking wheel being lower than the flame. The metal shroud gets hot, but you don't have to touch that to relight the flame.
That's even better than holding vertically, isn't it?
Don't listen to that guy, fat has low thermal conductivity.
As a professional caster, I have to admit that this Kit is very well thought out. Good job!
I don't think caster is a profession.
@@jayme3181 Well, 3 and a half years of training down the drain I guess.
@@jayme3181 Mould maker (aka pattern maker) is a profession too. Back when the automotive industry was in its infancy the race to cast single-piece V8 blocks, with acceptable yields, was all the rage. Casting a block with that many water and oil passages, that weren't vertical, was a major challenge. What was learned from this, once they succeeded, led to so many advances in other consumer goods that it's hard to imagine today. Trivial as it sounds, the perfecting art of pouring molten metal into tamped sand has been as instrumental to the technological revolution as the precision lathe and the micrometer.
@@andersjjensen Hi Anders, thanks for sharing this interesting story. I was not saying caster was not a job which required talent or one in which you could not become extremely skilled - but that to me, 'profession' is associated with a job in which you 'profess'. I.e. that the thing you are selling is your knowledge or opinion, such as a lawyer or teacher. Nowadays people claim to be a professional anything (footballer for example) but to me these are jobs - not anything to be ashamed of, of course. A master craftsman has rare and refined talent. But it's not a profession or vocation, these words had meanings which still apply for me at least 😀
This guys is an actual wizard
The video began to play while i was out of the room getting a snack and a soda...... imagine my bewilderment upon returning at 3:49 as LPL says "....remove the retention band and our lighter and spoon come off..." followed by him unscrewing the end of something and showing a white powder. I guess in my confusion i missed him saying baby powder but upon restarting the video things began to make sense. You got me LPL. lol
it was the 4/20 video of course
It took you 4 minutes to grab a snack and a soda?
How big is your house?
@@Throckmorton.Scribblemonger 8600 sq ft. excluding the bonus room in the attic.. lol joking i live in an apartment. lol I have ADHD tho Notice i said it began while i was out of the room. What i was watching wasn't very good so i was not in a rush and just left it playing, I got side tracked before finally getting the snack and returning. adding to my confusion was the fact i did not even know this video was next. I knew that voice was the LPL but what my mind was thinking was on the screen certainly was not. lol
@@georgemccune2923 very real
It is really cool. I got my second one to work fine, the first was a learning experience on the amount of pressure to use compressing the mold. Very nice.
Love how space efficient the multiple use items are.
I’ve used something similar for decades, sometimes if you don’t get the mold perfectly flat you can still get the key to work by juggling it. But I always used a utility knife to shave excess clay off of the mold. I found the higher the melting point, the stronger the key. And I discovered several other little tricks over the years as well.
What metal or alloy did you use for casting? And did you use a standard lighter, or something else?
Also curious of this @@TheKarlslok
You're going to, single-handedly (of course along with the team of people who made this product), change the lock industry. I'm buying this. It's so cool!
the only change to the lock industry is gonna be all the new service calls about people breaking their homemade keys in their locks!
or perhaps a couple lawsuits about bic lighters blowing up in peoples faces and/or people pouring toxic molten metal over themselves.
Man oh man, I wish I had one of these when I was an Apartment Complex manager. It would have been so useful when a tenant needed a key and the only one I had in the office was already the backup.
Many tenants would have broken them off in locks, despite warnings that they are much weaker than normal keys. Then you'd have a much bigger issue on your hands,
my apartment complex removed the key deadbolt locks,replaced them with Doormakaba electronic deadbolt locks. you use a RFID tag as a key,or an app on your smartphone,Bluetooth. the lock connects to the office via your WiFi,so they can lock you out any time they want,they log or track entries,i'm not sure if that's just the phone app or both. the maintenance guys have the app on their company phones.
On Jan 1,I got locked out because the batteries died,they reached the end of their 2 year life. But at least it can't be picked or bump-keyed.
@@JayWye52 Locks making use of RFID readers tend to have their own weaknesses and LPL has shown a few of them in videos over the years, though of course it depends on the particular lock as to which ones if any are applicable. Many electronic locks in general are vulnerable to magnets however so that'd be a place most criminals looking to break into one would probably start.
That said, they do have the benefit of keeping out more "traditional" crooks, simply because most wouldn't bother looking up info on a specific lock to find its weaknesses, so if they were going for a non-destructive approach, there's a chance they'd just look elsewhere. Of course, most criminals just go the destructive route anyhow, since it's easier and they care more about speed than anything else.
You could just have a key machine. Faster and makes better keys
@@JayWye52I would change the lock
Thanks for having people of various skill levels test it before launch.
As someone who has used Wood's metal for various random projects, I can tell you it's pretty cool stuff (will melt in boiling water).
Also, keep in mind it has lead and cadmium in it, so wash hands after handling it!
I just finished watching Adam Savage building a lock and mentioning you, and here you are with a fresh 11-min-old video building a key, gotta love the universe sometimes! :)
Link?
@cenycal if they mean the one from 7 months ago, search "Adam Savage lock" and it should be one of the first videos. I don't like posting links.
He was also mentioned on today's LTT video
@@alexdavis9324 Who still watches LTT? lmao
@@dudebroguymate Seriously. I had stopped watching them regularly a while ago, but I unsubbed and haven't watched a single video after they did a shit review and then sold the prototype without permission for that specialty GPU cooler. Proved conclusively that they don't care about actual technical accuracy and only go for memes.
When I was a kid, there was a series of books focusing on a young man named "Tom Swift" (apparently there's been many Tom Swifts, this set came out in the '90s). In one of the books he had a little gizmo that could "take a picture" inside of a lock and then make a key out of what it "saw" inside. This is just about the closest thing to that I've ever seen, and I gotta say it's darn cool.
LPL did a video on something that does pretty much exactly what you're describing, with a camera inserted into a keyhole. It's video 1209 on his channel
It would be straightforward to do that with a picture of the key; visual examination of the inside of a lock sounds harder to automate. But LPL did have a video where he showed a camera that would go inside a keyway.
I think that the original Tom Swift books came out in the early 60’s. Very much ahead of their time as I recall.
There are puns called Tom Swifties named after the book series. The author didn't like using the phrase "said Tom", so he used other words e. g. "remarked Tom"
@@taimurkhalil"I love hot dogs," Tom said frankly.
Just received my replicator. Made emergency keys for my AirBnB. Very pleased
More than anything I love the engineering of the kit, it's so well thought out. It's elegantly functional! I don't know when I would ever use it but I want one. 😅
8:34 fire is hot - lock picking lawyer 2024
The thought & expertise that went into creating this kit is stunning
Well done sir ! AGAIN
Yup, very cool... Include a square mould to turn the keys back into cubes because you know it's required.
You mold your own square with the sculpey
Just save one cube, and use it to mold the replacements
That is exactly what I was thinking. But you can make a square mold by pushing a square Cube into the clay.
or you can use critical thinking skills lol
the "spoon" could be cube shaped
Good kit. I appreciate that you chose an alloy that is hard enough at room temperature, and easy enough to melt with a relatively cool heat source. While the combination of parts is nothing new, the packaging is.
The best demonstration I've seen for keys that have magnets for specific pins as a security feature.
That release agent cap is almost harder to get into than a Master Lock. It definitely takes longer. 😅
Almost? 😋
@@lockpickinglawyer It takes ever so slightly less skill to open. It doesn't require any tools to open. 😛
@@the_matad0r342 Neither do half of Masterlocks.
@@the_matad0r342 **Laughs in McNally's video(s) of smacking Master locks open** 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@the_matad0r342 So... like a Masterlock combination lock?
Definitely the most 'James Bond' of all the lockpicking tools.
The only difference is that Q Branch would issue 007 with hyperspecial Unobtanium ingots that cost a significant fraction of the cost of a torpedo boat that melt flawlessly in ten seconds, stay flawlessly molten for fifteen seconds after heat is removed, and harden to approximately the strength of rolled homogenous armor plate in another ten.
Ive 3d printed almost the exact same clamshell and used non-air dry clay before. I then used low melt aluminum (usually) to cast. Same exact method here. However having everything in one convenient package is amazing.
And not too far in the future, a Raspberry Pi board that attaches nicely to the back of it all and allows you to copy and program the chips to go along with the keys that need them!
I would love for this... silly replacement keys costing $80+
Look for Flipper Zero. I think that's what you were thinking of. 🙂
You don't even need a Pi, something the size of Flipper Zero can do that already.
Imagine playing Doom on it while waiting for the key to cool.
@@thorjohnson5237 These keys are not made of hard metals. They will not last through repeated use.
This is honestly one of the coolest tools I’ve ever seen and it’s compact too!
I love this and have tried solder key molds in the past,a portable kit is so cool!
I don't think I'd ever want to cast a key copy, but damn, that is some SWEET UX and product design. Product manufacturers can learn so much from all the small details on this.
First time I've seen a video where it takes LPL 3 mins + to open a lock without using the key 😉🤣
Technically he did use the key
Technically... it's now proven, that key is the slowest method to open locks, even with that high tech kit.
@@McNeo2 Yup but you don't have to have LPL's mad skillz to deal with the bumps, pins, etc.
That is pretty awesome. Might be a good addition for a bug out bag or a tool for the pen testers out there.
I have no use case for this, but omg, I want one! Brilliant design and looks actually usable. Well done LPL!
Very clever. I used to do casting in bronze and silver, and I can testify that molton metal is hot. At my student dorm, in the laundry room were we had 440 volts, I once poured silver into a plaster mold that wasn't completely dry. It exploded, sending droplets and streams of hot metal across the top of the washing machine and onto the floor. I was barefoot (silly me) and had to do quite a fancy dance. Fun to think about later but rather scary at the time.
@buildaboiworkshop must be for shock effect
@buildaboiworkshop I mention the voltage because that's what my homemade kiln required.
as a kid I used to melt lead wheelweights on the kitchen gas stove,then cast little lead ingots. I put a wet miscast ingot back into my little lead pot,and it exploded lead over the burner,clogging it. the end of that hobby. Luckily,I was not harmed. Lesson learned.
what type of metal is in the kit? i want to try casting little art objects
This is why there is a giant list of rules and we can't have nice things. Dudes exploding metal all over the place.
I am a longtime fan of the Lock-picking Lawyer, and I have appreciated his mission of getting lock manufacturers to improve their wear. However, this device seems to straight up, be targeted towards thieves. I can think of very few situations why an honest person would need such a device that works so quickly and unobtrusively. Another thing to keep in mind… Woods metal is 25% lead. It is toxic to inhale its fumes.
Lead fumes are not a thing at these low temperatures (
Yeah, I mean the shop is literally called covert instruments. I already got strange wibes from one his multi lock picking tools that gets into cars as well. The wording in the video as well.. “only having access to the original (key) for a few seconds”
Even if you think that this is targeted just to thieves, then it still serves a purpose to show how easy making a copy can be. Just think that someone can make a copy of your key and enter in quick, quiet manner - enter in a way that would not draw suspicion in broad daylight. This is still a lesson.
@@tarps2 Why did you get strange vibes from a tool for getting into cars? It takes less than a second to break through a car window, and thieves do it in broad daylight (called "bipping" now, I believe). If a thief goes out of their way to acquire special tools and skills to steal from cars without damaging them, that's honestly preferable.
@@jaro6985 Hazard class: Acute toxicity, inhalation (Category 2). Fatal if inhaled (H330). Do not breathe dust or fumes (P260).
Hazard class: Germ cell mutagenicity (Category 2). Suspected of causing genetic defects (H341). Obtain special instructions before use (P201). Do not handle until all safety precautions have been read and understood (P202). Use personal protective equipment as required (P281).
Hazard class: Carcinogenicity (Category 2). Suspected of causing cancer (H351). Obtain special instructions before use (P201). Do not handle until all safety precautions have been read and understood (P202). Use personal protective equipment as required (P281). Elemental lead is a possible human carcinogen (IARC-2B).
Hazard class: Reproductive toxicity (Category 1A). May damage fertility or the unborn child (H360).
Hazard class: Acute toxicity, oral (Category 4). Harmful if swallowed (H302). Do not eat, drink or smoke when using this product (P270).
Hazard class: Specific target organ toxicity, repeated exposure (Category 1). Causes damage to organs (H372).
Neat! But if that’s wood’s metal it contains a significant proportion of cadmium, so don’t breath the vapour when melting it!
It's also got lead in it, so wash your hands if you've removed the flashing after casting.
R.I.P. LPL
Key smoke! Don't breathe it!
If you're producing vapor you've got it waaay too hot
Copy a key and get cancer. Sounds wonderful!
This is a great kit. Super simple and compact. The price is reasonable too.
Who cares about the price, this kit will earn you a lot of money just after first use 😀😀
Woods Metal - It is a eutectic, fusible alloy of 50% bismuth, 26.7% lead, 13.3% tin, and 10% cadmium by mass. It has a melting point of approximately 70 °C (158 °F).
If you're worried about the lead try fields metal.
@@rmo9808 Nah, as I melt lead to cast slugs and fishing weights - simply never heard of this stuff as gallium was the only low melting point metal I was familiar with so I figured this was an alloy of it.
I'm just surprised that alloy can be melted at 158 F as the lowest melting point of those four metals is tin at 450 F?
@@seanfoltz7645 The science behind their lower melting point is pretty interesting. The bond between the different metals is unstable leading to a lower melting point.
@@rmo9808 Ah, voodoo science, like those heat packs that generate heat when they freeze - gotta love it!
Wow a 9+ minutes LPL video 👏👏👏
He didn’t make a second key, how do we know if the first one was a fluke?
9 minute ad
You can tell it wasn't about a master lock from the length
Just FYI: The wikipedia article article on Wood's metal says the vapor is toxic, so limit the number of keys you cast :-).
contains lead so by the third key you may forget how to turn one
cast in a well ventilated area!
A safer but more expensive alternative would be Field's Metal.
Or simply hold your breath for 30 seconds....
They should consider using Rose's Metal. Both Wood's Metal and Rose's Metal contain lead, but Rose's Metal contains NO cadmium which is the much more hazardous metal. Rose's metal melts at 205°F instead of 158°F, but that should still be pretty easy using a butane lighter. They're about the same price and Rose's Metal, while not that strong, is a fair bit stronger than Wood's Mental so the keys would last a little longer.
I always wondered if that scene from The Italian Job (2003) where Jason Statham copies a key was at all viable. Now I know!
Bender Bending Rodriguez's burglary score of your product: 10/10
Bender Bending Rodriguez's bonus "incorporating the aesthetics of cooking rocks into your burglary" score of your product: 9,001/10
I always wondered why no-one had put a kit together like this.
A clever thought out kit 🙂👍
Because there's no legal purpose for it
@@hypnotico7051 sure there are. You just aren’t seeing them.
I know at least 1 kit exists, but cant remember what site it was on.
@@heatshield name them
@@heatshield If you already have the key legitimately, why would you need to make another one? If you need a spare, you'd just take it to a professional key-cutter rather than make your own vastly inferior version.
LPL has someone from Ikea working for him. They are the only ones who can fit so many thing in the same packet😂😂
Victorinox and Leatherman would probably disagree, but still impressive.
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🧐 That's nothing! Now my ex wife. . . 🤔 I'm going to shut up now. 😶🌫️
The Chinese shipping people are very, very good to pack things tightly. When our factory first started to get deliveries from our Chinese company, a whole shipment 20-foot container was packed very tightly, BUT they mixed everything, so to fit in as tightly as possible, it took our receiving dept 2 whole days to sort the shipment out. A couple of more was on the way. But we stopped this asap. After that, we've had less density in the containers, but they were offloaded in minutes instead of days.
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I couldn’t believe the time on this video it almost hit 10 mins almost a new record. Thank you for the new kit items look amazing.
LPL gradually making the transition from helping people understand locks to making money helping people steal stuff.
Fighting your inner demon?
This man is a modern day wizard, props to all this stuff youve come up with man.
He casts keys, not spells
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edit: I originally made that bold instead of italics and my brain immediately went "omg you can't use that tone at the club".. what is wrong with me?
TBH. this is among the least impressive (and most accessible) of trick seen on this channel.
All you need is low temperature alloy used for "melt out core mandrels" making hollow carbon fiber object (where dimensions of internal void matter).
And some "moon sand" or similar silicone based play doo for making the mold.
This is a great tool with many good uses. I sincerely hope it doesn’t end up being used to harm people or commit crimes.
Told myself I'm not gonna order more lock picking gear, then yesterday I got the email on this. Of course I ordered it. You're killin me LPL...lol
you are in the rabbit hole! Welcome aboard!
I'm resisting....... we'll see how long that lasts! this is sooooo James Bond I don't know how long I'll be able to hold out
I’m right there with you I got the email watched the instructional video and ordered one I couldn’t help myself also didn’t help it was pay day
yeh, between this and the book locknoob showed today I'm dead, I got double-dragon'd lol
@@Suiseisexy yeah I may have to get that book as well
What a great kit, LPL!! You thought of everything. ❤
Great for spare/emergency car key, the cost at the keysmith for those is ASTRONOMICAL. I have an XHorse copier for the transponder chip.
Whelp. I will never give my keys to anyone ever again
I mean, key impressioning has been around for decades. This isn't new technology.
@@TravelingStacker yeah. But this you can do in the span of like a bathroom break
@@pretentiousname01Oh shoot, I left something inside, can I borrow your keys real quick?
They can also take a photo of your key and have an exact copy cut from that. There's apps that show you the cut depths on nearly all key types.
@@pretentiousname01 Faster than that. Once you make the impression you can hand the key back and do the casting later.
A lighter, a metal spoon, white powder, and some strange clay-like substance? Naw! Law enforcement will never think drugs. 😉
I use Wood's Metal for low melt solder to remove difficult to heat printed circuit boards. It is also used in water fire sprinklers. Interesting application here.
I never thought this guy had bad intentions but now I might have to rethink that one.
The rest of the stuff made has other uses for locksmiths/fun. This is literally just for crime.
The guy is a lawyer.
He wants customers.
Red team testing is a thing, so it's *technically* possible to use this legally.
Man, I really need to re-watch Sneakers (1992).
bringing breaching tools to mass market doesnt help red teams.
@@_yreg eh, I don't see how you can protect against key duplication without fundamentally changing the definition of "key", so I don't really see what the problem is
This reminds me of the lead soldier casting kit I had as a 8 year old child the late 40s, except this is not a toy.
I built such a thing, around thirty years ago. Some modeling clay from craft store and I forget what I mixed that made it pretty dark color, but stiffened it a bit. Made me a little hinged cover for the clay. Body heat kept it soft enough to use. Used talc, for same release agent. Made my blank of JB weld. Cleaned that up, and i had a key machine. Other option I could do, is I do lost wax casting for jewelry. Could make my model key from wax and cast that. I wondered if that could be problem with shrinkage, in casting. - May be good way to make extra key for a locking receiver pin for my trailer hitch. Have not found a key smith who could make one.
You break a key, you can now remake a key to get you home safe.
Incredible idea.
Cheers LPL for sharing.
Oh no not you again!
So I'm guess a parking valet attendant would NEVER have one of these on him LOL 😂
Can't do much with modern car besides open the door and set the alarm off. The car won't start, but you could steal stuff later without breaking a window.
@@volvo09or just wait until a no electronic classic car come to you. Jag E-Type, old 911, even a Testarossa...
@@fernandoguzmanfernandez3466 Trabant! 😂
@@EvenTheDogAgrees it would not start, no because of key, but because of blown gasket
@@EvenTheDogAgreesA man of class and distinction I see
I haven't been receiving LPLs videos?
I thought he went off with Bosnian Bill.
Glad your back!
Lipowitz metals are cool. I worked with them for 7 years. Most I've seen contain toxic heavy metals like lead and/or cadmium. What are these ingots made from.
And yeah that spoon also had me thinking of coke, crack or heroine. 80s kid. I can't help it. Miami Vice and Dare! taught us 🤣
Their description says it's Wood's Metal which contains both lead and cadmium.
They should consider using Rose's Metal. Both Wood's Metal and Rose's Metal contain lead, but Rose's Metal contains NO Cadmium which is the much more hazardous metal. Rose's metal melts at 205°F instead of 158°F, but that should still be pretty easy using a butane lighter. They're about the same price and Rose's Metal, while not that strong, is a fair bit stronger than Wood's Mental so the keys would last a little longer.
I would imagine powdered graphite would be a fantastic release agent and double as a lock lubricant
Powdered graphite is a mess and will have you looking like Justin Trudeau at a costume party if you aren't careful.
It could make the key you copy dirty, and that would be suspicious
@@emperorbless120dear god
@@mihai9887 as if the casting stump isn't already suspicious.
@@mihai9887 Alcohol wipes would take care of that.
4:10 Imagine being pulled over and trying to explain it’s baby powder but also not directly saying it’s a lock picking/impression kit (I guess unless you’re a registered lock picker)
My only concern is getting the casting metal preferably from somewhere else besides just Covert Instruments in case the worst thing happens and the company goes out of business.
This kit is really well timed because I have an Abloy lock that no one in my area has the tools to cut a key for and this kit will finally let me make the back up key(s) we have been hoping to get.
I'm guessing the material is bismuth. Readily available cheap on ebay or amazon.
It is standard Woods metal, and that’s available just about everywhere …
Just make sure you don't leave your backup key in the car on a hot summer day...
Woods Metal: used commonly as a pressure release seal on tanks of compressed gasses so that it will melt and release the pressure before the tank explodes if exposed to fire. Also used as a fuse link to close fire doors or activate suppression systems, but those are sometimes special alloys designed with specific temperatures in mind, although always quite low
He's simply packaging known things into a nice compact kit. You can do this yourself if you put the research and testing in.
Some cop will definitely think it’s a dope kit…but maybe sometimes that’s better than the alternative
Quick safety tip with the lighter, Don't hold it sideways, You can risk melting the plastic mount for the striker or melt the gas tip off and cause it to quickly release its pressure all at once causing a not so fun boom.
Most morally ambiguous video I’ve seen from LPL
Cool system! The number of locks that will have half broken woods metal keys in them is going to skyrocket though lol
This is the best comment.
Allright this actually one of the coolest tools you've come up with. This goes to show how Locksport is actually advancing Locksmithing. However I'm sure there are many Locksmiths that would turn their nose up at it and instead spend $300 on a HPC pocket code reader.
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One of Harry's more interesting videos in a while (discounting the 4/1 video, of course)
His name...is LPL. Would be a shame if he was Hairy Picking Lawyer. 🤣🤣🤣
@@therealking6202 His real name is Harry. If you had been here as long as I have you'd know it.
@@P_RO_ Clearly you didn't notice the intentional misspelling. But hey, go on with your bad self.
I'm waiting for some hollywood movie to actually use this in a movie or show. That's friggen awesome!
Awesome, only the lighters are not made to be lit over long times, it can easily overheat the plastic parts and destroy the striker mechanism, this happens to me all the time when using them for various stupid purposes :D
EDIT: I am not shooting H, I just mean when working in the workshop and stuff :D
Yes you right...the plastic on the lighters gets hot they fall apart...soooo you buy them wind proof lighters ones that are like a mini blow torch.... possibly stainless steel tea spoon them lighters are like a blow torch...😊😊😊
@@rita8684 Yeah, the blow torch style would also get it done quicker, but it would not fit the footprint, and the ones that did would have only little gas in them. A zippo style would I think burn slightly colder (and you have to topi it up if you don't use it enough as the fluid evaporates. But yeah, nitpicking, whatever the case, this is a cool set!
@@CharlieTheAstronaut yes as you wrote nit picking..lol...when people get the set...wont take long work out the lighter melt the thing ect to long..issues....😀
Might have wanted to note in your words of caution at the end that Wood's Metal is 26.7% lead, ie consider washing your hands after using a cast key.
its also 10% cadmium 😬 he felt the need to explain that fire can burn you but not that melting woods metal gives off really nasty fumes and is toxic to handle 😭
@@maxinehardy9411 Yeah that's a big disclaimer that needs to be there. I only hope that given the low temperatures involved, it wouldn't burn and fume but only melt. If that's the case, it would mainly be a danger with people handling it w/ bare hands. I'm not sure how much you would have to accidentally ingest to get poisoning but I imagine this is one of those "use once, let it attract dust on the shelf" things for most people
@@maxinehardy9411Yes, the cadmium is a lot worse than the lead. They should consider using Rose's Metal. Both Wood's Metal and Rose's Metal contain lead, but Rose's Metal contains NO Cadmium which is the much more hazardous metal. Rose's metal melts at 205°F instead of 158°F, but that should still be pretty easy using a butane lighter. They're about the same price and Rose's Metal, while not that strong, is a fair bit stronger than Wood's Mental so the keys would last a little longer.
For anyone wondering, lpl did a video with the modern rogue about this like 2 years ago. "Early lpl key casting lore" and he explains a lot more in the process like how he uses a silicon ice cube mold to melt a large woods metal ingot into it
Things I didn’t expect LPL to say” for 500 Alex. “I like baby powder”
How much of that powder does it take to make a baby anyway? 😂
Is the powder made of real babies or it's synthetic?
or "fire is hot, guys...."
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Unless you are a professional $90 is a very steep price on something you might not ever use. If you do use it often you have to spend $15 on clay/metal refills. I think the little spoon should also come with that refill kit as it seems like after a few pours it will start to degrade or get smaller due to the metal sticking to it. I think at $40ish you would sell 4x as many.