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Took way too much advantage of the black Friday sale. Packaging and shipping is Top Notch!! Thanks to you and them. Web site also remembered me from previous purchases making checkout a breeze "and not fluke" Psychologically it is nice to be remembered.
Has anyone got experience ordering covert items from the UK. I was thinking of the basic picks plus training lock plus the echelon pick set. Around $100. How will customs treat that? How long to arrive?
@@datdabdoe1417 True, but it's also less effective as a weapon for when you catch someone trying to break in. 60 padlocks in a daisy chain sounds like it'd HURT.
@@Core-vu6mc The only lock picking going on in the UK is bumping (and snapping cylinders, which isn't picking but is common-ish) otherwise it's 'the order of the boot' if you want to open a door. Or steal the keys.
I have one from the 1970s (I know because I installed it!) It's a Pin tumbler cylinder, but the INSIDE part is basically the same as shown in the video. (Pittsburgh, PA USA).
Once we started installing the lock assembly into doors so that the lock pawl extends into the door frame was the same time we moved away from night latches. That change greatly improved the kick resistance of the lock assembly. At that point door handle templates had not standardized so drilling a hole for the lever that disconnects the Pawl from the lock would have been an easy to messup step.
Until you have an excited dog jump at the door from the inside and lock you out. In maintenance I've had to deal with a few privacy lockout situations from dog owners. 🙃
Not to mention the tool is not the standard one he usually uses, looks like custom-made or a vintage one at the very least. "Security by obscurity" at its finest.
In South Africa, lever locks are extremely common on door locks (mostly residential - commercial properties tend to have pin tumbler locks) - likely from us being a former British colony. However there are only a finite number of key combinations, so locksmiths generally don't bother with picking and instead just carry a rope ring with a bunch of the most common ones and can open most doors in a few minutes. A lot of places have retrofitted a pin-tumbler latch (commonly called a "Yale" lock) to supplement the lever and add a little security. Oh, and most internal doors are fitted with lever locks, whether residential or commercial.
So if you had a double length lever lock for exponentially more key combinations, you would have something that at least needs sturdy picks to get through.
Yeah NZ is the same its a British colony thing, though because everything is made to a budget here and slightly crappier 3 lever is common, so its only about 26 keys to cover every option.
It completely stops a rake, it can't be bumped, and the key looks awesome. It also required tools I don't yet have, and now I have to resist the urge to buy said tools even though I have no way of getting a lock like that.
That's a common feature in the United Kingdom. I live in a terraced house in England that was converted into a shop, with a flat on top. My parents bought it as a shop and one night thieves tried to break in by using a device that was like a Yale key blank attached to a crowbar, to force the entire Yale cylinder front to turn around (so turning the entire front, rather that picking). We were all inside and the night latch was on. The criminals managed to force the front around enough to get the door open. They would have been in our home threatening me, my sister and my parents to get the shop takings. But out night latch fought back against the front of the Yale lock and part of the mechanism (similar to the long thing on the back of the lock LockPickingLawyer showed on the Wellington lock) snapped. Yale's lock experts designed the night latch on the back of our lock to break the front of our Yale lock! We were still able to open the door and close it from the inside. I had to go to the local locksmith, while my Dad guarded my home, to by a replacement Yale cylinder, plus keys for all of us. So the crime cost us, but that Yale cylinder breaking - as intended - saved us. Long story short, sometimes designing a lock part to break is a security feature. You hear the words "fail safe". Yale made our lock fail in the way that kept my family safe. And I'm extremely grateful for the engineer at Yale who made our lock front "commit suicide" to protect me and my family from the thugs trying to get into my home.
@@DanStaal yeah the brits have a night latch but the dutch have heavy duty bolts that are now days mounted in the doors and make the doors when latched part of the wall. before we only had heavy duty bolts that we put on the inside of the doors and had the locking part of it mounted in part of the door frame. its just a little bit less strong then the bolts in the core of the door with metal plates running the full length both of the frame and the doors.
Got a huge wave of nostalgia watching this when you showed the pick you were using. I thought I've never done any lock picking in my life, but I just remembered when I was a kid my school gave my sister an old piano and my dad had to pick open the cover to the keys because it didn't have a key. And I remember myself and my brother playing with that pick he made for the piano.
I knew someone who did this in University accommodation. Whilst drunk, from the second floor (or first floor, for the British). If he hadn't been able to find a ladder, that would have been an interesting conversation with Campus Security.
True. On the downside, the legitimate resident can't get inside either. The switch can only be used if the building is occupied, and thieves don't usually break into occupied homes. If they do, they give zero craps whatsoever about being detected and tend to go straight for more destructive entry(and the residents are at extreme risk).
I'm from India and I always wondered why most of the keys around the house weren't slanted in the way that would allow them to slide into a pin lock, its very interesting to learn that there's a whole other type of lock that's used commonly here.
Love that cute little lever mechanism. I always liked lever locks; a simple mechanism that's easy to manufacture even with hand tooling, but offers decent security. They're still rather common in safes and security deposit boxes here.
IMHO, pin tumbler locks overtook lever locks due to cost, NOT security. Lever lock keys are a lot more work to copy, Let ALONE mass producing the lock internals.
French Fichet lever locks are more secure than almost all pin tumbler locks; I've seen a few special challenge locks that are essentially unpickable without knowing the mechanism.
@@cheyannei5983 Yes, I do believe pin tumbler locks are inherently LESS secure than a well designed lever lock. In the US most lever door locks that remain in are interior simple "privacy" locks (on bedroom and bathroom doors in older houses). Since THOSE were never intended to be "secure" leads to people (at least here in the US) to believe that lever (bit key) locks are inherently insecure. However my mother's house retained it's EXTERIOR lever lock and this was into the 1980s, She saw keeping it in use was an advantage as it would be a "bitch" to pick, AND only the RARE lockpicker would even know how. My grandfather (her father) was a licensed locksmith, So she had SOME insight, LOL. The ONLY downside was requiring an actual locksmith to make copies of the key. (Can't get those copies at a Walmart kiosk!).
In the days before plastic doors became _de rigeur_ in UK it was common for a door to have two locks: a pin tumbler (commonly known as a _Yale lock_ ) and a mortice lock (commonly known as a Chubb lock). (The pronunciation of _lever_ gives me a fevver).
Fitted dozens if not hundreds of these for Lewisham borough council during the 80’s when I was a locksmith. All the council estates had them. We used to take them back to the workshop swap the levers around cut new keys and reuse them.😊
The GLC fitted them to nearly every flat that they built in the 60s and 70s and I still see them occasionally on those estates that have not been fitted with new doors. I have often wondered if it was someone in the architects department that just really liked them or if there was a brown envelope involved.😊 Either way, it is one of my favourite locks. It's simplicity, the appearance of the cylinder and the lovely key has always pleased me.
It's been forever you opened a lock to see the mechnism. I missed that a lot. Please dismantle more locks! :c I always enjoy watching you lockpicking. Maybe someday I'll try it out myself.
I really enjoy videos where you disassemble the lock you picked. I love seeing the mechanisms inside the locks! Thank you for the extra time and effort!!
Great Video, but the feature you described as a the "night latch" is actually more of a "daytime latch" that you can use to latch the lock open, so that if you're going in and out of the house a lot you can open the door without needing the key every time. The fact that the latch can double up as a night latch is a bonus rather than a central feature, and a some of these locks cannot be "night latched". Source: I grew up in the UK and my parents had these kinds of locks on their doors.
I've lived with these style locks for 50+ years and only used the 'night latch' to stop the door slamming shut behind me (or maybe when leaving the house for days and exiting through another door).
We had our locks changed a few years ago. The locksmith pointed out that unlike our previous lock, the "night latch" could *only* be used to latch the lock open and NOT to lock it closed, and that this was to save people accidentally locking them selves in and being unable to escape a fire. He also pointed out that most insurers require at least a 5-lever two-way lock so ne'er-do-wells can't punch through our leaded glass and just open the door from the inside. "But a night latch is easier to open than a lever lock in a panic at night." He laughed sourly and said: "Yup. Go figure."
Thanks, in England, we used to call this night latch the "snick", you could disable the lock in the open or closed position, different parts of England would have a different name for it.
Yeah, somebody should go back in manufacturing again. I think it’s one of the coolest locks I’ve ever seen and I’ve been in locksmith for 50 years and I’m now 68.
For those of you in the comments, talking about LockPickingLawyer "defeating the night latch" a thief (or locksmith) trying to do that would take advantage of the fact that front doors in the UK generally have a letter box slot in them and attack with a tool small enough to fit through that slot that can fold back on itself and attach to the latch or the handle for opening the lock from the inside. He would need an entire door to demonstrate this. And people in the UK have different types of doors that do not all have the letterbox in the same place.
Another name for the "night latch" is the "sneck". That was the word my mother used for it - she was from the north of England, born in the late 1920s.
My husband was a locksmith for 40 plus years and he had to open a safe for a not so legit person he knew... he got it open in a few seconds but just sat there, making it seem like it was difficult... that made me realize it's a show for those that don't know... he could open anything... I miss him 😢
Yes WBD sent him a pick proof lock almost a year now but LPL maybe screwed big time and still trying to open it … he only show video of a lock he can open to make him looks good😂
Really interesting. Wellington can not be raked like a Master lock. BTW, Kudos to the Cover Instruments shipping department. Can see the check off list. The packaging was top notch. Thank you sir and the shipping department.
I've seen so many of these around Canberra - for those playing the home game, this is the capital city of Australia. I'm not surprised that a pommy lock found its way here.
Looking at the levers, I could imagine adding in some false slots for the fence to slip into and stick you up a bit as picker. Could also have some fun with shaping the fence as well.
Portugal is filled with lever locks in the interior doors, they are very common for low security purposes around the insides of the house. With like 30 keys you can open most of them.
My father used to have a lever deadbolt in his old flat in Vienna, which is very unusual here. Everyone here has lock mechanisms, where the easily replaceable europrofile cylinder actuates both the deadbolt and the trap bolt, so you usually need three whole turns of the cylinder to open a door, but his door additionally had another deadbolt with a lever lock and a sliding stopping bar on the inside. the bar worked like a chain that you put in so that the door only opens a little bit, except this one was a 10mm stainless steel bar that you could easily rock in and out of engagement in a second and wouldn't open the door wide enough for a bolt cutter to fit through. He just never used it because in an emergency, it would prevent rescuers from getting in aswell (kicking down doors is not a thing here, don't try it)
My grandfather had one of those in his workshop way back in the 60s. No idea where he got it. Possibly a piece of an MGM movie set. It seemed ancient to 9 year old me. Most of his cool old stuff disappeared when they moved in 1971.
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best video man! that's great when you showing the lock picking not upside-down
Still quite common here in the UK, and people often leave the door "on the latch" when they want to close the door but not lock it (if doing gardening, etc).
The house I grew up in (that my parents still live in, being the second owners of the house that was built in 1925) had lever locks on the bedroom doors. Needless to say, I learned to pick them as a kid. 😁
I have always been intrigued by lever locks. So damn cool! Copying KEYS for them is more "hands-on" than pin tumbler locks, I'm SURE that COST is the reason that pin tumbler locks surpassed lever locks. My mothers house (In the US!) still had a (I think 5?) lever exterior (Front door) lock in the 1980s! (The house was from the 1870s, but the lock looked to be from the 1910s-'20s).
Crikey ! I've been on this planet for a bit over 78 years and clicking that night-latch button was always done in the ubiquitous Yale locks before going to bed, I can remember that as far back as I can remember !
I had an idea while watching this video. It may exist. If it does, my bad, I have never seen it before. Instead of trying to make the impossible "unpickable" lock, just add a tiny speaker, simple circuitry and button cell battery so that when contact is made between two points, it emits a high pitched alarm within the lock. It could have a disable button for normal operation and what not. Include spools, steel pins, and high quality construction, etc. to make drilling and picking more difficult, but the main function would be to emit a loud noise to draw attention to the lock that is being opened and deter the person opening it. Just a thought from a simpleton.
I'm still more keen on the lever lock in our door. Its deep into the door (making getting tools in there a hell of a task) and instead of the night latch, you can just leave the key in (turned all the way to lock it) which leaves a shutter in place so no way to get access to the keyway. All on a deadlock too so no chance of shiming it.
Although these were still being made up until recently they are still quite rare to see in the wild. The only other lever operated night latch rim lock I can think of from back in the day was a "Chubb New Patent Rim Lock" (Not to be confused with the "Chubb New Patent Detector Lock", Two entirely different locks).
Neat little lock, if not very challenging for an experienced picker. It's nice to see the internals, which is becoming too rare on LPL's videos, unlike the self-advertising Covert Instrument tools (Though, fair enough, he owns the company, but still...). Also, it doesn't look like it could be picked with a carrot, which is a plus!
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Bought too much stuff lol. 😅 Thanks for the free patches.
I wish the lock vice that's featured in this video was for sale. I've never been able to find it
Took way too much advantage of the black Friday sale. Packaging and shipping is Top Notch!! Thanks to you and them. Web site also remembered me from previous purchases making checkout a breeze "and not fluke" Psychologically it is nice to be remembered.
Yes go back to the unique cool locks instead of crap Amazon china locks😂
Has anyone got experience ordering covert items from the UK. I was thinking of the basic picks plus training lock plus the echelon pick set. Around $100. How will customs treat that? How long to arrive?
>needs unique turning tool
>needs unique lockpick
>takes over a minute to unlock
This lock is better than every MasterLock combined.
well, its certainly easier for the operator to use than 60 masterlocks in a daisy chain.
@@datdabdoe1417 True, but it's also less effective as a weapon for when you catch someone trying to break in. 60 padlocks in a daisy chain sounds like it'd HURT.
All good points. Maybe in the UK a thief might be more likely to have the tools but not in the US. I should buy a bunch and put them on everything. 🙂
@@Core-vu6mc Conversely, as a Brit, I won't be buying a bunch of Masterlocks to put on everything. You can keep those things :p
@@Core-vu6mc The only lock picking going on in the UK is bumping (and snapping cylinders, which isn't picking but is common-ish) otherwise it's 'the order of the boot' if you want to open a door. Or steal the keys.
I wish more modern locks had a night latch. Such a great idea.
I have one from the 1970s (I know because I installed it!) It's a Pin tumbler cylinder, but the INSIDE part is basically the same as shown in the video. (Pittsburgh, PA USA).
He will just push it open with a piece of a plastic orange juice bottle.
Once we started installing the lock assembly into doors so that the lock pawl extends into the door frame was the same time we moved away from night latches. That change greatly improved the kick resistance of the lock assembly. At that point door handle templates had not standardized so drilling a hole for the lever that disconnects the Pawl from the lock would have been an easy to messup step.
Until you have an excited dog jump at the door from the inside and lock you out. In maintenance I've had to deal with a few privacy lockout situations from dog owners. 🙃
Do you have to disengage the night latch to open the door from the inside? If so it would likely be considered a hazard in a fire.
Took him 10 times longer to get into that one than a Master lock. Credit where credit is due!
Not to mention the tool is not the standard one he usually uses, looks like custom-made or a vintage one at the very least. "Security by obscurity" at its finest.
Old fashioned British tech.
Exactly what I was thinking
That being said a pipe wrench on the outside of the lock body would probably give enough motion to activate the bolt.
That's like saying it took 10 times longer than turning a doorknob, sure it's a bit of extra security, but hardly secure against a dedicated attack.
In South Africa, lever locks are extremely common on door locks (mostly residential - commercial properties tend to have pin tumbler locks) - likely from us being a former British colony. However there are only a finite number of key combinations, so locksmiths generally don't bother with picking and instead just carry a rope ring with a bunch of the most common ones and can open most doors in a few minutes. A lot of places have retrofitted a pin-tumbler latch (commonly called a "Yale" lock) to supplement the lever and add a little security.
Oh, and most internal doors are fitted with lever locks, whether residential or commercial.
So if you had a double length lever lock for exponentially more key combinations, you would have something that at least needs sturdy picks to get through.
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I am South African and can confirm.
Those keys looked like PO Box keys. Internal door lever locks all have numbers (eg Y10, M23), if you know the number you can just go and buy a key.
Yeah NZ is the same its a British colony thing, though because everything is made to a budget here and slightly crappier 3 lever is common, so its only about 26 keys to cover every option.
0:01 the automatic texting says "lock pain lawyer", and I have never seen a more appropriate thing to call this man
Should be "Masterlock pain lawyer". 😆
Neat lock for sure. I love the videos where the locks are disassembled, glad to see that again even if only for one video.
It completely stops a rake, it can't be bumped, and the key looks awesome. It also required tools I don't yet have, and now I have to resist the urge to buy said tools even though I have no way of getting a lock like that.
Hair pins and wire clothes hangers are EXCELLENT sources of the necessary tools.
I'm glad you unlocked it with the key twice so we know it wasn't a fluke
and took the screw off the driver for some reason
Interesting vintage lock. Took longer to pick than most Master locks. I especially like the night latch function.
That's a common feature in the United Kingdom.
I live in a terraced house in England that was converted into a shop, with a flat on top. My parents bought it as a shop and one night thieves tried to break in by using a device that was like a Yale key blank attached to a crowbar, to force the entire Yale cylinder front to turn around (so turning the entire front, rather that picking). We were all inside and the night latch was on. The criminals managed to force the front around enough to get the door open. They would have been in our home threatening me, my sister and my parents to get the shop takings. But out night latch fought back against the front of the Yale lock and part of the mechanism (similar to the long thing on the back of the lock LockPickingLawyer showed on the Wellington lock) snapped.
Yale's lock experts designed the night latch on the back of our lock to break the front of our Yale lock!
We were still able to open the door and close it from the inside. I had to go to the local locksmith, while my Dad guarded my home, to by a replacement Yale cylinder, plus keys for all of us. So the crime cost us, but that Yale cylinder breaking - as intended - saved us.
Long story short, sometimes designing a lock part to break is a security feature. You hear the words "fail safe". Yale made our lock fail in the way that kept my family safe. And I'm extremely grateful for the engineer at Yale who made our lock front "commit suicide" to protect me and my family from the thugs trying to get into my home.
The night latch like that is extremely common outside the USA from my experience. (But that might just be former British territories.)
@@DanStaal yeah the brits have a night latch but the dutch have heavy duty bolts that are now days mounted in the doors and make the doors when latched part of the wall. before we only had heavy duty bolts that we put on the inside of the doors and had the locking part of it mounted in part of the door frame. its just a little bit less strong then the bolts in the core of the door with metal plates running the full length both of the frame and the doors.
@@DavidShepheard Aye, the operating bars on Yale & Union have a thinned area built in to the operating bar for just that reason.
Had that feature on a lock in my first apartment!
Got a huge wave of nostalgia watching this when you showed the pick you were using. I thought I've never done any lock picking in my life, but I just remembered when I was a kid my school gave my sister an old piano and my dad had to pick open the cover to the keys because it didn't have a key. And I remember myself and my brother playing with that pick he made for the piano.
Fifty seven seconds for LPL to pick with the correct tools. Better than most locks he reviews.
A lock that keeps LPL busy for 53 seconds is good enough security for many purposes.
And with he knowing the mecanism. I bet it can be undefeat in the wild
Lock the door from the inside, set the night latch, exit through the window. Excellent door security!
Too bad I check the windows first
I knew someone who did this in University accommodation. Whilst drunk, from the second floor (or first floor, for the British). If he hadn't been able to find a ladder, that would have been an interesting conversation with Campus Security.
Love seeing the insides of a lever lock this clearly. Really helped me understand how they work
Actually remarkably simple that lock. Needs no precision machining like the tiny pins and springs like in a pin tumbler lock.
Absolutely unpickable when the switch is in the correct position.
I was going to ask if that's really the case.
The key won't even work.
True. On the downside, the legitimate resident can't get inside either. The switch can only be used if the building is occupied, and thieves don't usually break into occupied homes. If they do, they give zero craps whatsoever about being detected and tend to go straight for more destructive entry(and the residents are at extreme risk).
@@CptJistuce True, but personally I'd rather be guaranteed a warning in the form of them literally breaking in.
@@henryokeeffe5835 That's fair.
I've always had dogs, and they tend to raise hell when something's going on outside.
I'm from India and I always wondered why most of the keys around the house weren't slanted in the way that would allow them to slide into a pin lock, its very interesting to learn that there's a whole other type of lock that's used commonly here.
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@@Mimi-dy8gdjust try to scam the lock via anydesk and you might get to learn moren
Seeing that history between Britain and India, makes a lot of sense
Love that cute little lever mechanism. I always liked lever locks; a simple mechanism that's easy to manufacture even with hand tooling, but offers decent security. They're still rather common in safes and security deposit boxes here.
IMHO, pin tumbler locks overtook lever locks due to cost, NOT security. Lever lock keys are a lot more work to copy, Let ALONE mass producing the lock internals.
French Fichet lever locks are more secure than almost all pin tumbler locks; I've seen a few special challenge locks that are essentially unpickable without knowing the mechanism.
@@cheyannei5983 Yes, I do believe pin tumbler locks are inherently LESS secure than a well designed lever lock. In the US most lever door locks that remain in are interior simple "privacy" locks (on bedroom and bathroom doors in older houses). Since THOSE were never intended to be "secure" leads to people (at least here in the US) to believe that lever (bit key) locks are inherently insecure. However my mother's house retained it's EXTERIOR lever lock and this was into the 1980s, She saw keeping it in use was an advantage as it would be a "bitch" to pick, AND only the RARE lockpicker would even know how. My grandfather (her father) was a licensed locksmith, So she had SOME insight, LOL. The ONLY downside was requiring an actual locksmith to make copies of the key. (Can't get those copies at a Walmart kiosk!).
For anyone interested, it's a Platgo screwdriver
Thank you, it is a very neat looking driver.
Man, I was searching quite a bit for this comment. Thanks
I was actually wondering if it was a Covert Instruments product, lol
In the days before plastic doors became _de rigeur_ in UK it was common for a door to have two locks: a pin tumbler (commonly known as a _Yale lock_ ) and a mortice lock (commonly known as a Chubb lock).
(The pronunciation of _lever_ gives me a fevver).
We don't like leevers over here :P Something to do with some turncoat general or some-such.
@@KitsuneRogue . . . and a one third minority forcing their views on others in the first north american civil war.
@@KitsuneRogue Yeah but.........the US pronunciation makes it sound French and nobody wants that! 🤣
Using leathers in your locks will make your locks go all floppy. Maybe that's why American (Master Locks) are so poor.
Happy Thanksgiving Mrs LPL and Mr LPL. Along with my fellow viewers. Thank you for a nice and unique lock video.
Fitted dozens if not hundreds of these for Lewisham borough council during the 80’s when I was a locksmith. All the council estates had them. We used to take them back to the workshop swap the levers around cut new keys and reuse them.😊
The GLC fitted them to nearly every flat that they built in the 60s and 70s and I still see them occasionally on those estates that have not been fitted with new doors. I have often wondered if it was someone in the architects department that just really liked them or if there was a brown envelope involved.😊
Either way, it is one of my favourite locks. It's simplicity, the appearance of the cylinder and the lovely key has always pleased me.
I enjoy the old videos where you take the lock apart and explain how it works… this is a good nostalgia video. Thank you
It's been forever you opened a lock to see the mechnism. I missed that a lot. Please dismantle more locks! :c
I always enjoy watching you lockpicking. Maybe someday I'll try it out myself.
I like those old locks, and to see the guts they created was pretty cool.
Great specimen for the return of disassembling locks!
Better than any MasterLock :D
I really enjoy videos where you disassemble the lock you picked.
I love seeing the mechanisms inside the locks!
Thank you for the extra time and effort!!
Great channel. I would never had been able to see this mechanism working without this video. Thank you.
That is such an interesting locking mechanism, thanks for showing the close up so I could figure out how it operated!
What a great disassemble, thanks for showing the guts.
Great Video, but the feature you described as a the "night latch" is actually more of a "daytime latch" that you can use to latch the lock open, so that if you're going in and out of the house a lot you can open the door without needing the key every time.
The fact that the latch can double up as a night latch is a bonus rather than a central feature, and a some of these locks cannot be "night latched". Source: I grew up in the UK and my parents had these kinds of locks on their doors.
In my experience with these locks it was always described as a night latch, which was its intended function, but was invariably used as you describe.
I've lived with these style locks for 50+ years and only used the 'night latch' to stop the door slamming shut behind me (or maybe when leaving the house for days and exiting through another door).
We had our locks changed a few years ago. The locksmith pointed out that unlike our previous lock, the "night latch" could *only* be used to latch the lock open and NOT to lock it closed, and that this was to save people accidentally locking them selves in and being unable to escape a fire.
He also pointed out that most insurers require at least a 5-lever two-way lock so ne'er-do-wells can't punch through our leaded glass and just open the door from the inside. "But a night latch is easier to open than a lever lock in a panic at night." He laughed sourly and said: "Yup. Go figure."
I had those on my old apartment building. Brilliant locks. The night lever is great.
What an interesting lock-I really enjoy when you take locks apart-thank you, and happy thanksgiving
Any LPL video over 4 minutes gets me excited!
Happy Thanksgiving LPL and Family! Thank you for years of interesting and sometimes funny content!
Thanks, in England, we used to call this night latch the "snick", you could disable the lock in the open or closed position, different parts of England would have a different name for it.
Thanks for carving this years tur(n)key! Grateful as always for your vids!
Nice to see take apart a lock again. Really missed that from the older days.
Decades-old lock presents more pick resistance than a typical Master lock. Somehow, not surprising.
I really enjoy the sounds in these videos, they tickle my brain just the right way
Yeah, somebody should go back in manufacturing again. I think it’s one of the coolest locks I’ve ever seen and I’ve been in locksmith for 50 years and I’m now 68.
The night lever should be a standard feature on all home locks
For those of you in the comments, talking about LockPickingLawyer "defeating the night latch" a thief (or locksmith) trying to do that would take advantage of the fact that front doors in the UK generally have a letter box slot in them and attack with a tool small enough to fit through that slot that can fold back on itself and attach to the latch or the handle for opening the lock from the inside.
He would need an entire door to demonstrate this. And people in the UK have different types of doors that do not all have the letterbox in the same place.
Sort of like the "Under the door" tool?
I love the idea of a night latch built into the knob lol
What the hell was that background screaming? at 1:40
He knows how to pick every lock… maybe kidnapped ppl right out of their homes!
That sounds like an episode of walking dead.
Chuppacabra
Master lock board realizing they have been beaten by something decades old
sounds like his breath blowing into the microphone
Don't tell me the LPL is scared of the works by design lock. When that video comes out, I'll buy a covert instruments set that day
Another name for the "night latch" is the "sneck". That was the word my mother used for it - she was from the north of England, born in the late 1920s.
A Sneck is a lift latch on a gate. Many people got it confused back in the day and the term stuck.
My husband was a locksmith for 40 plus years and he had to open a safe for a not so legit person he knew... he got it open in a few seconds but just sat there, making it seem like it was difficult... that made me realize it's a show for those that don't know... he could open anything... I miss him 😢
Works by design
Yes WBD sent him a pick proof lock almost a year now but LPL maybe screwed big time and still trying to open it … he only show video of a lock he can open to make him looks good😂
I really wish I owned a lockpicking kit. Just in case I lock myself out. This one looks nice.
Level 9000 on the Masterlock 1-to-10 security scale.
A night latch in my mind always translates as "It's so secure it needs a second lock with no keyhole on the outside."
Considering its age I'm remarkably surprised how good it is, certainly not necessary to replace if it is in use.
Hmm. Haven't seen a lock gutted in a while. This is the content that made me subscribe!
I guess "gutted" is a bit strong in this case. We got to peek at the inner workings, which was my point.
After watching this channel for years, I have come to believe you just need to weld yourself in every night!
Love it. A video longer than a short, with both a pick and gut.
Even with special tools and knowledge of the inner workings it still took more time to open than most of the locks featured on LPL's channel.
Great to see the video drop. Happy Thanksgiving.
When a video is longer than 3 minutes, you know it's good one :)
What an elegant and compact solution!
Really interesting. Wellington can not be raked like a Master lock.
BTW, Kudos to the Cover Instruments shipping department. Can see the check off list. The packaging was top notch. Thank you sir and the shipping department.
I've seen so many of these around Canberra - for those playing the home game, this is the capital city of Australia.
I'm not surprised that a pommy lock found its way here.
wow some serious British kit, had to roll out the vice to Lock it Down for treatment.
Happy thanksgiving
Still waiting for carrots used to pick a lock.
or empty red bull cans
We demand carrots! 🥕
All you get is the stick.
Probably he cant do it😏😏
@@rTodd-g8eThat's easy. I can open master combination locks with any aluminum can, and then decode the combination once it's opened.
Love that lock, very unique!
That lock is so unique! Thank you for sharing!
Looking at the levers, I could imagine adding in some false slots for the fence to slip into and stick you up a bit as picker. Could also have some fun with shaping the fence as well.
Portugal is filled with lever locks in the interior doors, they are very common for low security purposes around the insides of the house. With like 30 keys you can open most of them.
What a great piece of history
Never occurred to me you are a Marylander. From one to another, keep it up!
Thank you for showing the inside!
That is an interesting design. As you said, the type of mechanism is what will trip most pickers. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Its better then any Master Lock PERIOD! And took you a little bit to open it A good simple locks are some times the best!
My father used to have a lever deadbolt in his old flat in Vienna, which is very unusual here. Everyone here has lock mechanisms, where the easily replaceable europrofile cylinder actuates both the deadbolt and the trap bolt, so you usually need three whole turns of the cylinder to open a door, but his door additionally had another deadbolt with a lever lock and a sliding stopping bar on the inside. the bar worked like a chain that you put in so that the door only opens a little bit, except this one was a 10mm stainless steel bar that you could easily rock in and out of engagement in a second and wouldn't open the door wide enough for a bolt cutter to fit through. He just never used it because in an emergency, it would prevent rescuers from getting in aswell (kicking down doors is not a thing here, don't try it)
My grandfather had one of those in his workshop way back in the 60s. No idea where he got it. Possibly a piece of an MGM movie set. It seemed ancient to 9 year old me. Most of his cool old stuff disappeared when they moved in 1971.
best video man!
that's great when you showing the lock picking not upside-down
Still quite common here in the UK, and people often leave the door "on the latch" when they want to close the door but not lock it (if doing gardening, etc).
The house I grew up in (that my parents still live in, being the second owners of the house that was built in 1925) had lever locks on the bedroom doors. Needless to say, I learned to pick them as a kid. 😁
Excellent video!😸
Super interesting mechanism. Better than a Masterlock to be sure.
Definitely an intresting one.. simplicity at its best.
I have always been intrigued by lever locks. So damn cool! Copying KEYS for them is more "hands-on" than pin tumbler locks, I'm SURE that COST is the reason that pin tumbler locks surpassed lever locks. My mothers house (In the US!) still had a (I think 5?) lever exterior (Front door) lock in the 1980s! (The house was from the 1870s, but the lock looked to be from the 1910s-'20s).
Happy Thanksgiving LPL. WoopWoop! =3
Matt you really know how to open locks
pretty elegant little lock !
I'd like to see modern deadbolts with the "night latch" feature included. I think that would be an easy selling point.
Crikey ! I've been on this planet for a bit over 78 years and clicking that night-latch button was always done in the ubiquitous Yale locks before going to bed, I can remember that as far back as I can remember !
Yeah they’re all over the place in Australia, both my exterior doors have them
Seems way better then most of what I have seen here so far...
Far better than anything master lock has produced! Very tricky internal design.
Happy to see a tear down again. Even if very brief.
I had an idea while watching this video. It may exist. If it does, my bad, I have never seen it before. Instead of trying to make the impossible "unpickable" lock, just add a tiny speaker, simple circuitry and button cell battery so that when contact is made between two points, it emits a high pitched alarm within the lock. It could have a disable button for normal operation and what not. Include spools, steel pins, and high quality construction, etc. to make drilling and picking more difficult, but the main function would be to emit a loud noise to draw attention to the lock that is being opened and deter the person opening it. Just a thought from a simpleton.
Beautiful mechanism.
"Little click out of the turkey!"
cluck, turkey's cluck. :p
I like seeing these unusual locks that one doesnt typically see in the wild here in the US. =D
I'm still more keen on the lever lock in our door. Its deep into the door (making getting tools in there a hell of a task) and instead of the night latch, you can just leave the key in (turned all the way to lock it) which leaves a shutter in place so no way to get access to the keyway. All on a deadlock too so no chance of shiming it.
That lock held up pretty well.
McNallyOfficial: This is a Wellington 5 Lever. You can open it with another Wellington 5 Lever.
Although these were still being made up until recently they are still quite rare to see in the wild. The only other lever operated night latch rim lock I can think of from back in the day was a "Chubb New Patent Rim Lock" (Not to be confused with the "Chubb New Patent Detector Lock", Two entirely different locks).
I'm thankful for the lock picking lawyer. Because of the pick used it reminded me of 5 mini master lock bypasses.
Neat little lock, if not very challenging for an experienced picker. It's nice to see the internals, which is becoming too rare on LPL's videos, unlike the self-advertising Covert Instrument tools (Though, fair enough, he owns the company, but still...). Also, it doesn't look like it could be picked with a carrot, which is a plus!