Thanks for showcasing our lock. Really great video. Since then we have released a new lock called the Rotasera which is a disk detainer lock with our convoluted key design. We have not produced any 543's in a while as the Rotasera based padlocks replaced them for real world usage. One day we will make another batch of 543's for all the collectors who still would like to have one. If you want to check out a rotasera id be happy to send one over. Locknoob did a great video of the mechanism in that lock. That was sure funny at the end. For the record in order to get the socket head cap screws past the ball bearings you need to operate the key and open the cylinder so the balls can pull inwards and get out of the way. To our knowledge nobody has picked the 543. There are no videos we are aware of.
Is there an email list that I could get on to be notified when you have more 543s available? I’ve been wanting one for years now and haven’t had any luck. Could you do a pre-ordered run of them, so I know I’d get one eventually?
I was waiting for you to disassemble the padlock and show how neatly it was built... and then when you said it was print in place, mind absolutely blown. What an incredible thing.
Honestly, remembering all the mistakes Adam has done on this videos, and that he still gets to the final thing at the end, pushed me more than once to get over my mistakes at making things and not abandon the project. Most (not all) other TH-cam makers show only the happy path, hiding all the mistakes and extra work they needed to do, and maybe it is fun to watch super casually, but it sets super unrealistic expectation for people who actually try to make/repair/modify something.
The Bowley reassembly is me on basically every small mechanical or electronics project. "This will be easy," followed by six hours of painful fumbling, out-of-sequence misassembly, and general chaos. You are an inspiration, Adam, not because you're a lofty, unreachable paragon, but because you elevate the common events we all share to a level of wonder and joy that is a delight to experience. Seeing the world through your eyes is always deeply enjoyable. Thank you.
As important the lock is, people cheap out on the strike plate , buying an interior door strike plate to exterior door , hold on place with two tiny screws. Nothing prevents cut locks off a door or hole in a wall , modern power tools are easy to carry with you and quiet, compared their IC versions.
Everything you were saying at the beginning of this video reminded of something my mom, who is a painter and art educator, always tells me and her students. Everything creative, innovative, or new comes from someone taking two or more different objects or ideas and combining them. In this case taking a lock and the idea of a print in place, created something that nobody has seen before. In my mind that is the true definition of creativity and innovation. Thank you Adam for sharing this with us!
The opening to this video is a perfect example of why I love Adam so much: he talks about doing something not because there's an immediate use or benefit, but doing it because you're curious. One of THE BEST ways to encourage creativity and a scientific/engineering curiosity is to empower people who explore topics because it tickles their brain, not because of a specific application or utility it offers. I feel so happy that people like Adam exist, and offer their genuine excitement and support for people who do things just to see if they can do it, and who challenge themselves to try something new even if it seems silly, even if other people say it's a waste of time. They're feeding their curiosity, learning about how things work, and learning to use tools and systems they otherwise wouldn't -- and sometimes in entirely new ways.
I'd love to listen to you interview Lockpicking Lawyer. I think another point that is often forgotten about or overlooked is that when it comes to locks and doors and safes, its not that being 'proof' (pick proof/bludgeoning/cut proof...) but it's about the amount of time and effort it'd take to defeat/bypass it. The big chunk ot security, besides being a deterrent, is It provides a longer opportunity to stop a perpetrator by other means (like guards or law enforcement). ❤
nothing on 2.. Pin 3 is binding.. Pin 3 is set.. Pin 4 has a spool.. Pin 4 is also spooling up the minigun that has dropped down from the ceiling panel.. The lock is a Bowley though, so it will survive. Tell Laura I love her. This is the Lockpicking Lawyer, signing off..
Like my Dad always used to say, "Locks are mainly good to keep honest people honest. If crooks want to get in, they will". Example: Spray a bike lock or a steering wheel lock with canned air's chemical, Difluoroethane. It cools steel down to -13 degrees then hit lock with a hammer.
Years ago, I was learning to open locks. I bought some cheap paddle locks for like $2 each from a local store. One of them, anytime I put the rake in, it opened. Like magic. After four or five times of this, I compared the rake to the key. Identical pattern.
The honesty of that ending makes me respect Adam even more than I did, as if that was possible. My brain immediately went "...would it be easier to build a plinth with all the pieces separated, than to put it all back together?" x)
I have a Bowley deadbolt on my front door. I bought it because of the engineering attempt at an 'unpickable lock'. It's also made by a Canadian company and supporting a domestically made product is always great. I've had it for 5 years now and I still love it. When it comes to high quality, well designed and well made products; a Bowley lock is relatively cheap and you get to use it every day!
Honestly, I wish I were more like Adam and looked at things so positively when I know I'm the ready I'm looking at several hours of extra work. Thanks for showing us it happens and how to attack the results with grace.
I love how you say a couple of times you were not going to show you fixing/putting it back together it in the video. then at the end the video cuts and comes back to you saying you thought thought about it off camera and looking at it, it looked easy to fix. Then you proceed to fix/put it back together in the video. It made me happy because I saw a part in the video (around the ending) that to me you were going to do it but pause a moment then stop yourself but end up doing it anyway.
As a locksmith and a locksporter I appreciate the confusion around taking apart and putting back together locks. 😂 The brass cover is called a slide over the pin chambers. The Bowley lock has always been such an interesting produced lock and just amazing engineering. Now if you want to see some other fun mass engineered locks look to Japan and the high end Miwa locks like the U9 and its brothers of lever locks that are crazy hard to pick. The high end Goal Z is truly a marvel and any of the high pin count dimple locks. The Evva 3KS with floating sliders and side bars and the MCS rotary magnetic lock. There are many locks around the world that are in use and are so much better than what we have in the states. I enjoyed the video a lot. Thanks ✌🏻🌶
I agree with the idea that this kind of thing is pushing innovation forward. At some point we will be able to print a lock like this which is not easy to break and from stronger materials.
I’m a big fan of the BiLock locks. Master keyed my entire home with them. Has a fairly unique looking key shape, and has been approved by Lockpicking Lawyer. I also love how I can use the same cores in both padlocks and door locks
Very cool 😎 ! The security padlock system I saw in the Texas oil fields years ago is short piece of pipe to recess hasp and padlock, bolt cutters nor a grinder will work and makes picking the lock difficult ! Thanks ever so much from old New Orleans 🔐
Bleeping, well said!! Imagine, play, invent, whatever, but just don't be "normal"!! Be different and thrive. I have spent most of my 70 years believing this. Thank you Adam
Adam you should put that green lock somewhere in the background so that it will be caught on camera occasionally. As a testament to "doing thing just to do them" so the maker sees the lasting impact.
I love that idea. I've already seen it as an Easter egg in the background of his other videos, and i jumped with joy. Im blown away he featured it in a video . Adam is such a genuinely nice and inspiring guy!
Print in place engineering is absolutely going to continue to have huge impacts. So much of engineering is the compromises made for machining and assembly, how you actually fit the toolhead in there and then fit the parts inside each other. Even just 3d printing static designs has had a HUGE impact on things like rocket nozzles because it allows cooling channels to be integrated inside the walls of the nozzle while allowing the rest of the material to stay one monolithic piece with no joins or seams for ideal structural integrity.
@@LeafBoye not practical for the regular homebody, now is it? Cars are already strongly leaned towards not being repairable by the owner like they were a few decades ago ... this would make them even more disposable and unrepairable. Look up some of the vehicles made in a way a body panel getting damaged is tens of thousands in a repair. Removing bumpers to replace headlight and foglight bulbs. The tech is great, but blindly believing it only leads to utopia is oblivious, ignorant, and quaint, but dangerous. Just like large Li-Ion batteries in EVs, not safe but it moves the cars with less space than NiMH! ... clown planet I'm happy for what things to to help in areas it really matters, like the rocket nozzle example; I loathe when it is casually brought to the masses to disable their independence and increasing the disposable world economy. 'throw it in the shredder and reprint it' ... fine for a plastic lock; not fine for a lot of other things that matter and doubly so for people without endless expendable budget. Some people are barely feeding themselves week to week; disposable world hurts them the most because they can't repair, they have to full price re-purchase or pay someone an arm and a leg to fix it. big world out there, remember to think outside your pond
@@Khronogi This guy gets it. Cars benefice from being repairable over being a monolithic block with no weak points. Rocker noozles, the oppossite. Having good technologies for each need is a good thing - you just need to choose the best tech for each case.
I bought this padlock after seeing it on LPL, along with the deadlock versions for my house. It's such a unique piece of lock engineering. Every time I lock or unlock my door I think of the LockPickingLawyer, and now I always think of Adam Savage, too!
I love that through the magic of editing you leave all of your eff-ups in place. The reality is that videos on YT tend to make everything look simple because they edit out hours of fowl ups.
9pm "Oh yeah. This thing. I haven't looked at that in a while. Let's look at that mechanism again." 10pm "Why did I have to look at it so late?" 11pm "Attempt 3 putting it together." 12am "Whew! It all went back! ... it doesn't work." 1am "Got it working. ... why is there an extra screw on the workbench?" 2am "It works, but the tolerances are too tight." 3am "It works, but the tolerances are too loose." 4am "If I get 3 hours of sleep RIGHT NOW, I won't get fired."
As a kid I was fascinated seeing people picking locks, when lock down happened it gave me time and the Internet resources to learn. Lock picking lawyer and others are fascinating to watch.
Here is the file! 3D-Printed Padlock STL: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/lock-key-plasti-lock-printed-in-place-lock and www.printables.com/model/870186-lock-key-print-in-place-locking-pack-1
@@Kastnerd Here is the file! 3D-Printed Padlock STL: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/lock-key-plasti-lock-printed-in-place-lock and www.printables.com/model/870186-lock-key-print-in-place-locking-pack-1
The genuine joy on your face as you were talking about LPL, locks and learning in general made me smile. I had a pretty rough weekend so this was a good video to find.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for pronouncing that name correctly! Over 50 years on this planet, and the number of people who have gotten it right on the first try is barely in the double-digits.
I was lucky enough to pick one of these 543's up a couple years ago. I really think of it as one of the crown jewels of my collection. I show it to anyone who wanders into my lab at work. Lol thank you for Mr. Savage for doing what I do but like a million times better!
Makers express our creativity through solving problems we find engaging. It's a wonderful way to do art, because even when it's something else, making is art.
I had no idea you could print mechanicals in place like that. I am super super impressed. edit. "that's me having pulled out all the pins" reminds me of trying to rebearing a steering wheel on a tractor. 32 ball bearing in a spiral groove running the length of the shaft. You've got my empathy. This is gonna be a pain, but at least there's that brass plate to sortta hold them. I'm sure it's back together and working fine by now, but still.
It's quite widely used production method at least in the plastics printing industry where big powder bed printers are used, they can print parts in place without supports so you can make pretty complex interlocking parts that are impossible to make with traditional production methods like machining. It can even be used with metal 3D printers, depending on part geometry and parameters. Source: I operate metal printers for work.
I wish you broke it down even more and further down and had to put it back together a million times. Then did it again. I just love how passionate you’re about the engineering of all items! It makes all of us so interested in the mechanics of how the most minuscule things are made, the things we take for granted. I’m positive you’re encouraging and igniting the spark in a new generation just from them watching your videos! I never thought I’d be so excited about how much precision it takes to make a nut and bolt lol. I saw those hex screws coming out and it reminded me of you making your own bolts. Thanks Adam for the videos and your genuine child like excitement for engineering! From, everyone.
Definitely look into Abloy locks. Abloy Classic is a 100+ years old lock, the grandfather of disc retainers that extremely simple in it's construction, still being sold and still considered rather secure, after 100 years. The more modern ones are impossible to get to and are works of art, you can't even tension them as the small changes to it's construction now require all discs to rotate in unison before you even get to the part where you know if it's going to unlock or not. Why I love them personally is that, other than being from Finland as am I, the design does not rely on complex set of fiddly springs and pins but instead extremely simple set of few parts, even the modern ones, and still being extremely secure. Beauty in design and simplicity as making anything complex is easy, making them simple is real hard.
18th century French and Italian safes are beautiful. Just the keys are a thing of beauty! I am surprised Adam hasn’t mentioned them with his love of boxes and locks and keys. This is why I have become obsessed with them. It’s is a life list item to acquire one. Hope he sees this and is given a new rabbit hole to fall down.
Oh wow I never expected my Bowley to show up on here. I've been using them for years, it's the best retail lock on earth, better is not available to the public.
I have Bowley lock on my front door. I was initially concerned about the fragility of the key, as well. I'm here to tell you it is NOT a concern. It's machined from stainless and you can't bend or break that key without tools. I assure you, the Kwikset key on your keychain is far more bendable/breakable than the Bowley key.
On my tractor trailer, I use an Enforcer 1217 Adjustable Swing Door Trailer Lock. It wraps around the door bars on the trailer with two adjustable pieces of rather heavy grade steel. The padlock shank has holes punched through both plates. When locked, the shank is pulled tight into a groved bar that holds the all in place. For the final touches, the pad part of the lock sits in a curved armored housing with an asymmetrical curved key to lock and unlock it. There are pictures of other trailers using this lock during a roll-over accident. The trailer was wrecked, but the lock held and kept the doors closed.
Failure is always an option. Thanks for ending the video the way you did. While I know he got it put back together it was great to see someone else have that OFFS moment.
I think the number 1 thing I love about Adam, is how excited he is about the little things in life.... I wish I could that excited about something trivial...
Lockpicking Lawyer, Locknoob, Bosnian Bill... Tought me a lot! You might want to make yourself a pin-tray for these things. Interesting easy one day build project ;)
Arrrgh! I know that feeling. Most recent for me was my cat got her claw stuck and knocked the F key off my Asus laptop keyboard. You’d think that’s no big deal, but there are three nylon pieces and the keycap which have to go together in one specific way and the problem is that it is really difficult to figure out how because it has to be done underneath the keycap which you can’t see through. I’ve repaired equipment for almost 50 years and know a lot of tricks, but this job took four hours to get right, but I wasn’t going to let it go until I got it right. In the end I got a great appreciation for the engineering of something which contained mere pennies worth of nylon and ABS. The thing that bends my mind is how the heck the entire keyboard is manufactured at scale. Even now that I know the assembly trick, it still takes me 20 seconds or so to put the key assembly together. There must be a really amazing machine which can handle all approximately 80 keys at once so that Asus can pay less than 10 Dollars for the keyboard of a computer which sells for about 200 Dollars at retail. Just amazing.
I'm so excited you see possibilities from this! That's exactly what I was hoping to do when designing the lock! If you're upbfor sharing, I'm always looking for new challenges!
Always wondered why haven't you ever been on scrapheap challenge man then I watch your videos and see how great a detail you get into everything Nd the scrapheap is the last place you'd wanna be haha
OMG YES! @4:13 The longer I work as an engineer, the more strongly I believe that all our best ideas and innovations come from individual, intrinsic curiosity. It takes a huge amount of discipline and money and other stuff to take that great idea and make it into something real and useful, but the most elegant solutions come from a person who has the space/time/energy/privilege to pursue their ideas
Even though you spent a fair amount of the first part of the video saying you wouldn't show putting it back together I appreciate the effort and would liked to have seen more of your frustration in doing so.
If you ever find yourself planning to go to northwestern Virginia for some reason, see if you can finagle a factory tour at Medeco. You would love their setup, they're basically a huge machine shop that makes lock parts that are over-engineered to a spectacular degree.
If you do a LPL crossover, please have him pick his way into your workshop and pick every lock you have for fun. Also I imagine you just interviewing his hands.
@@TheBayru They can put some backup/secondary locks on some things just for show. All I am saying is it would be fun to set up an "environmental demonstration".
I bought two Bowley padlocks and a door lock a few years ago after seeing a video from LPL. I've only used one on a shipping container that was, obviously, outside. I didn't unlock it for at least a year of Ohio weather, and when I did need to open it, I couldn't get it to function. I tried a few different things to loosen it up so I could get it open, but didn't have any luck. I believe I even wrote the company for advice but did not have any success with any method that I was able to attempt. The other two locks haven't been used yet, mostly because I haven't found an application for them, not out of any feeling that the one "failed." As Adam has already pointed out in the video, these locks are VERY serious bits of kit, extremely well made, and solid AF. Unfortunately, we eventually had to cut the one on the shipping container off and I wasn't there to see how that went. All of this probably points more to the tight tolerances in the design and construction much more so than it indicates any "weakness" of the lock. In fact, it was definitely doing its job because even with the key, everything in the container was still secure. I guess the TLDR is, "Don't leave one outside for a year without cycling it at least every month or so."
5:30I quoted you just this week about this - "The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down!" We need people who screw around, or nothing new gets built!
Here is the file! 3D-Printed Padlock STL: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/lock-key-plasti-lock-printed-in-place-lock and www.printables.com/model/870186-lock-key-print-in-place-locking-pack-1
Actually, as far as I'm aware of, the Bowley 543 still has yet to be picked by anyone! The Bowley lock that has been picked multiple times is the Original door lock. The 543 is basically the same as that, but Bowley have doubled the stakes.
@@LockPickingPaws I think Adam just got the two locks mixed up. Or at the very least, the 543 has still never been documented (while, again, the Original has been picked and documented numerous times). If there is a video documenting the 543 being picked on TH-cam and I'm wrong though, let me know!
I don't have any amazing locks yet but I do have a couple I consider amazing stories. I did tech for a church and it was band practice night, of course the day I got there early I inserted the key into the door got the door unlocked but my key jammed. So I decided to use the extensive knowledge I've been learning about locks and take the cylinder out try to lubricate it with some homemade graphite from a found pencil and tried to figure out why it was jamming. I pulled the lock apart and I was carefully trying to do this with makeshift tools.. and all the pins came out! On top of all that it was a master key system so all the wafers came out. I ended up essentially rekeying the lock to my key and nobody had any other issues with that lock and somehow I managed to get the master key and subsequent other keys to work fine. and That's how I found out every key was a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy and at some point in all those copies there was a slight shift leaving a slight offset just enough to cause the key to jam. Subsequently they re-keyed the entire building and I got all the old keys to play with. That was like 2016 or something. Fast forward 3 months ago, I started a new job. The Director comes to me and tells me they opened a closet and this is a closet where you need the key to open it cause there's no door handle. and they got their key jammed in it. I went over to take a look pull the lock cylinder out. i set it down it rolled and hit the ground and I got the key out. then dismantled the entire thing cleaned and lubricated it as it was very sticky with probably WD-40 over the many years... because I later found out it has been jamming for so long that everybody goes around saying oh there's a trick to that lock, you have to kind of pull the key to the side to be able to get it out; that the two of us did not know yet. Well after I put it back in I found out a I inadvertently fixed it so it doesn't do that anymore. One of the springs was bent out and caught in the barrel slightly, how long had it been like that? it had to of been years since either it was re-keyed or original. I didn't have a new spring but I was able to re-bend the spring back into shape and so far it works like a normal lock. Oh yeah one more we were getting some keys copied at a big box hardware store. They accidentally chose the wrong blank "A" which then comprehended problem "B" they put the provided key and the blank into the wrong slots which led to problem "C" can you guess what happened? because the blank was short the cutter went in and cut the master key! The system is supposed to have a failsafe where if you put the right blank in it will ride up along the edge of the blank protecting the key accidentally put into the Cutting slot, unless you put them in backwards and with a short incorrect blank! Not too long after that they got a new automated machine. Thankfully we had two original keys for the lock.
I've got some sargent and greenleaf 831b, 833, and 951 locks, all military grade. I have never seen someone actually pick them successfully that looked real. I've thought of sending them to LPL but I'm not sure if he has them or not, and they are quite expensive. I know he hasn't done a video on them.
ive only had my 3d printer a few months. i love it! it's amazing to design or download something then be able to print it out. before ya know it we will be printing flux capacitors. i am def gonna check out that print-in-place lock.
The video description has been amended thanks to the tested team, In their defense Didn't know they were making a video on my lock, and when I gave Adam my lock I didn't include my contact information.
@@jonathandaigle5518 is it possible to get the step or stl files? From you or a site where we can buy or download it? My son and I like picking locks and messing with them. It'd be super cool to be able to print a lock to play around with.
![[653] Prototype Dual Fork Bowley Padlock (Model 543)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/D6vioIPVzM4/mqdefault.jpg)
![[653] Prototype Dual Fork Bowley Padlock (Model 543)](/img/tr.png)
3D-Printed Padlock STL: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/lock-key-plasti-lock-printed-in-place-lock
and
www.printables.com/model/870186-lock-key-print-in-place-locking-pack-1
Thank you for sharing my files too!
Thanks a lot, will be posting my own videos soon!
Thank You!
_this is the lock picking lawyer and toda.... and its open with a lego man_
@@jonathandaigle5518 As a creator, which site is best for you, Cults or Printables? Which would you prefer we buy from?
The ending was truely felt by everyone that repairs stuff. Thanks Adam and the Tested team.
To see Adam having a 'Oh, 'F---' day..... I certainly feel it myself.
I died at the end. The enjoyment and yet frustration at the same time us curious people get ourselves into!
Yea!! It's not just me!!! Thanks Adam, if you struggle, then I know struggles are normal and it's not just me.
so close.
Oh, we've been there! 😖 😂
Thanks for showcasing our lock. Really great video. Since then we have released a new lock called the Rotasera which is a disk detainer lock with our convoluted key design. We have not produced any 543's in a while as the Rotasera based padlocks replaced them for real world usage. One day we will make another batch of 543's for all the collectors who still would like to have one. If you want to check out a rotasera id be happy to send one over. Locknoob did a great video of the mechanism in that lock.
That was sure funny at the end. For the record in order to get the socket head cap screws past the ball bearings you need to operate the key and open the cylinder so the balls can pull inwards and get out of the way.
To our knowledge nobody has picked the 543. There are no videos we are aware of.
I hope he checks out the rotasera too.
I guess we should be expecting "The Tool Bosnian Bill And I Made v2." at some point.
yes please make another batch of 543s!
Is there an email list that I could get on to be notified when you have more 543s available? I’ve been wanting one for years now and haven’t had any luck. Could you do a pre-ordered run of them, so I know I’d get one eventually?
@@grahamwaldo331I’d also like that. I emailed them awhile ago without response.
I was waiting for you to disassemble the padlock and show how neatly it was built... and then when you said it was print in place, mind absolutely blown. What an incredible thing.
He said he'd link to the download, but didn't do it. I can't find this file. :(
@@WhyT74I haven’t found it either ☹️
Hi, designer and maker of that lock here, the link is now posted and pinned by tested!
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
The things I love about Adam are how he isn't afraid to show his screw ups and his wonderful turn of phrase, like "boring problem."
Next challenģe: a lock designed 100 years ago: ABLOY classic. The one you need The Pick made by LPL & Bosnian Bill.
Honestly, remembering all the mistakes Adam has done on this videos, and that he still gets to the final thing at the end, pushed me more than once to get over my mistakes at making things and not abandon the project. Most (not all) other TH-cam makers show only the happy path, hiding all the mistakes and extra work they needed to do, and maybe it is fun to watch super casually, but it sets super unrealistic expectation for people who actually try to make/repair/modify something.
Great job. Thank you 😊
The Bowley reassembly is me on basically every small mechanical or electronics project. "This will be easy," followed by six hours of painful fumbling, out-of-sequence misassembly, and general chaos. You are an inspiration, Adam, not because you're a lofty, unreachable paragon, but because you elevate the common events we all share to a level of wonder and joy that is a delight to experience. Seeing the world through your eyes is always deeply enjoyable. Thank you.
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This would be an amazing idea. ♥️
He reviewed this lockyears ago and basically didn’t even try.
He's gonna smoke this lock.
@@americanardvark he never did in 6yrs
"Security is always a moving target in terms of how much people want your stuff." So very well said.
Well of course, the richer you are the more expensive shit you have. I am still at zip tie level.
As important the lock is, people cheap out on the strike plate , buying an interior door strike plate to exterior door , hold on place with two tiny screws.
Nothing prevents cut locks off a door or hole in a wall , modern power tools are easy to carry with you and quiet, compared their IC versions.
"A lock keeps an honest person honest"
The end just took the video up to a new level. 10 seconds with more content and message than most hour long videos.
Everything you were saying at the beginning of this video reminded of something my mom, who is a painter and art educator, always tells me and her students. Everything creative, innovative, or new comes from someone taking two or more different objects or ideas and combining them. In this case taking a lock and the idea of a print in place, created something that nobody has seen before. In my mind that is the true definition of creativity and innovation.
Thank you Adam for sharing this with us!
Thank you for saying nice things about my crazy idea! Your mom sounds very wise!
As soon as you revealed the key for the Bowley lock my mind went straight to the fifth element. Cool Video Adam💯💯💯
It's a warded lock
Time does not matter, only life….
Yes, that certainly looks one!
I knew it looked familiar.
MULTIPASS!
@@MoreEffinCowbell AUTOWASH
The opening to this video is a perfect example of why I love Adam so much: he talks about doing something not because there's an immediate use or benefit, but doing it because you're curious. One of THE BEST ways to encourage creativity and a scientific/engineering curiosity is to empower people who explore topics because it tickles their brain, not because of a specific application or utility it offers. I feel so happy that people like Adam exist, and offer their genuine excitement and support for people who do things just to see if they can do it, and who challenge themselves to try something new even if it seems silly, even if other people say it's a waste of time. They're feeding their curiosity, learning about how things work, and learning to use tools and systems they otherwise wouldn't -- and sometimes in entirely new ways.
I'd love to listen to you interview Lockpicking Lawyer.
I think another point that is often forgotten about or overlooked is that when it comes to locks and doors and safes, its not that being 'proof' (pick proof/bludgeoning/cut proof...) but it's about the amount of time and effort it'd take to defeat/bypass it. The big chunk ot security, besides being a deterrent, is It provides a longer opportunity to stop a perpetrator by other means (like guards or law enforcement).
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nothing on 2..
Pin 3 is binding..
Pin 3 is set..
Pin 4 has a spool..
Pin 4 is also spooling up the minigun that has dropped down from the ceiling panel..
The lock is a Bowley though, so it will survive. Tell Laura I love her. This is the Lockpicking Lawyer, signing off..
Like my Dad always used to say, "Locks are mainly good to keep honest people honest. If crooks want to get in, they will". Example: Spray a bike lock or a steering wheel lock with canned air's chemical, Difluoroethane. It cools steel down to -13 degrees then hit lock with a hammer.
Years ago, I was learning to open locks. I bought some cheap paddle locks for like $2 each from a local store.
One of them, anytime I put the rake in, it opened. Like magic. After four or five times of this, I compared the rake to the key. Identical pattern.
The honesty of that ending makes me respect Adam even more than I did, as if that was possible.
My brain immediately went "...would it be easier to build a plinth with all the pieces separated, than to put it all back together?" x)
That last shot, heart breaking.
Adam - 'I got this, I got this....'
Morgan Freeman - 'He don't got this'
LOL (best Morgan Freeman voice over) "Little did he know, failure is *always* an option" 😅
He would not, in fact, get it.
I have a Bowley deadbolt on my front door. I bought it because of the engineering attempt at an 'unpickable lock'. It's also made by a Canadian company and supporting a domestically made product is always great. I've had it for 5 years now and I still love it. When it comes to high quality, well designed and well made products; a Bowley lock is relatively cheap and you get to use it every day!
I loved this, as another fan of the LPL, and cackled with glee as Adam showed how hard it is to do what looks easy when the LPL does it.
Honestly, I wish I were more like Adam and looked at things so positively when I know I'm the ready I'm looking at several hours of extra work. Thanks for showing us it happens and how to attack the results with grace.
I have one of those Bowley locks too!
I have no particular need, but it is such a gorgeous piece of hardware.
I love how you say a couple of times you were not going to show you fixing/putting it back together it in the video. then at the end the video cuts and comes back to you saying you thought thought about it off camera and looking at it, it looked easy to fix. Then you proceed to fix/put it back together in the video. It made me happy because I saw a part in the video (around the ending) that to me you were going to do it but pause a moment then stop yourself but end up doing it anyway.
As a locksmith and a locksporter I appreciate the confusion around taking apart and putting back together locks. 😂
The brass cover is called a slide over the pin chambers. The Bowley lock has always been such an interesting produced lock and just amazing engineering.
Now if you want to see some other fun mass engineered locks look to Japan and the high end Miwa locks like the U9 and its brothers of lever locks that are crazy hard to pick. The high end Goal Z is truly a marvel and any of the high pin count dimple locks. The Evva 3KS with floating sliders and side bars and the MCS rotary magnetic lock. There are many locks around the world that are in use and are so much better than what we have in the states. I enjoyed the video a lot. Thanks ✌🏻🌶
I agree with the idea that this kind of thing is pushing innovation forward. At some point we will be able to print a lock like this which is not easy to break and from stronger materials.
That's the idea, first is proof of concept then better materials and methods.
I’m a big fan of the BiLock locks. Master keyed my entire home with them. Has a fairly unique looking key shape, and has been approved by Lockpicking Lawyer. I also love how I can use the same cores in both padlocks and door locks
Very cool 😎 ! The security padlock system I saw in the Texas oil fields years ago is short piece of pipe to recess hasp and padlock, bolt cutters nor a grinder will work and makes picking the lock difficult ! Thanks ever so much from old New Orleans 🔐
Bleeping, well said!! Imagine, play, invent, whatever, but just don't be "normal"!! Be different and thrive. I have spent most of my 70 years believing this. Thank you Adam
Adam you should put that green lock somewhere in the background so that it will be caught on camera occasionally. As a testament to "doing thing just to do them" so the maker sees the lasting impact.
Use it to "lock" a cabinet that never gets closed.
I love that idea. I've already seen it as an Easter egg in the background of his other videos, and i jumped with joy.
Im blown away he featured it in a video .
Adam is such a genuinely nice and inspiring guy!
Print in place engineering is absolutely going to continue to have huge impacts. So much of engineering is the compromises made for machining and assembly, how you actually fit the toolhead in there and then fit the parts inside each other. Even just 3d printing static designs has had a HUGE impact on things like rocket nozzles because it allows cooling channels to be integrated inside the walls of the nozzle while allowing the rest of the material to stay one monolithic piece with no joins or seams for ideal structural integrity.
It's also going to make devices unrepairable.
@@writerpatrickthen you grind down the item into the core materials and rebuild it, oh my fdm model broke? Throw it in the shredder and reprint it
@@LeafBoye not practical for the regular homebody, now is it?
Cars are already strongly leaned towards not being repairable by the owner like they were a few decades ago ... this would make them even more disposable and unrepairable.
Look up some of the vehicles made in a way a body panel getting damaged is tens of thousands in a repair. Removing bumpers to replace headlight and foglight bulbs.
The tech is great, but blindly believing it only leads to utopia is oblivious, ignorant, and quaint, but dangerous. Just like large Li-Ion batteries in EVs, not safe but it moves the cars with less space than NiMH! ... clown planet
I'm happy for what things to to help in areas it really matters, like the rocket nozzle example; I loathe when it is casually brought to the masses to disable their independence and increasing the disposable world economy.
'throw it in the shredder and reprint it' ... fine for a plastic lock; not fine for a lot of other things that matter and doubly so for people without endless expendable budget. Some people are barely feeding themselves week to week; disposable world hurts them the most because they can't repair, they have to full price re-purchase or pay someone an arm and a leg to fix it.
big world out there, remember to think outside your pond
Upsides and downsides, as with everything.
@@Khronogi This guy gets it. Cars benefice from being repairable over being a monolithic block with no weak points. Rocker noozles, the oppossite. Having good technologies for each need is a good thing - you just need to choose the best tech for each case.
The only channel that shows the mechanical marvels and the filmmaking magic too... love your energy Adam! Never stop
I bought this padlock after seeing it on LPL, along with the deadlock versions for my house. It's such a unique piece of lock engineering. Every time I lock or unlock my door I think of the LockPickingLawyer, and now I always think of Adam Savage, too!
I always wondered how well the deadlocks hold up over time?
@@gwaeron8630 I’ve never had any problems. Getting used to the unlocking and locking actions took a bit of practice in the beginning, that’s all.
Does the key snag everything in your pocket?
@@PapaWheelie1 No, my key holder is the Ridge Keycase. None of my keys catch in my pocket.
I love your passion about the inventive passion of the person who printed that lock. I admire both of you
I have one of those! I don't even have a good application for it really; I just bought it because I love the design of the locking mechanism so much.
I love that through the magic of editing you leave all of your eff-ups in place. The reality is that videos on YT tend to make everything look simple because they edit out hours of fowl ups.
The fail at the end was the best 😂
"For f*ck's sake..." is the plaintive cry familiar to anyone who builds or repairs anything.
@@talon262those of us with less control over our emotions would yell “F********CK!” instead.
9pm "Oh yeah. This thing. I haven't looked at that in a while. Let's look at that mechanism again."
10pm "Why did I have to look at it so late?"
11pm "Attempt 3 putting it together."
12am "Whew! It all went back! ... it doesn't work."
1am "Got it working. ... why is there an extra screw on the workbench?"
2am "It works, but the tolerances are too tight."
3am "It works, but the tolerances are too loose."
4am "If I get 3 hours of sleep RIGHT NOW, I won't get fired."
As a kid I was fascinated seeing people picking locks, when lock down happened it gave me time and the Internet resources to learn. Lock picking lawyer and others are fascinating to watch.
That print in place padlock is tremendous and shows just how quickly things are progressing.
Anyone found a link to the 3d lock?
@@Kastnerdnope, still searching.
It's on the orange stl site in a bundle and purple stl site standalone.
TH-cam won't let me link it.
Search "lock & key"
Here is the file!
3D-Printed Padlock STL: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/lock-key-plasti-lock-printed-in-place-lock
and
www.printables.com/model/870186-lock-key-print-in-place-locking-pack-1
@@Kastnerd Here is the file!
3D-Printed Padlock STL: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/lock-key-plasti-lock-printed-in-place-lock
and
www.printables.com/model/870186-lock-key-print-in-place-locking-pack-1
The genuine joy on your face as you were talking about LPL, locks and learning in general made me smile. I had a pretty rough weekend so this was a good video to find.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for pronouncing that name correctly! Over 50 years on this planet, and the number of people who have gotten it right on the first try is barely in the double-digits.
I was lucky enough to pick one of these 543's up a couple years ago. I really think of it as one of the crown jewels of my collection.
I show it to anyone who wanders into my lab at work.
Lol thank you for Mr. Savage for doing what I do but like a million times better!
Yes they are rare lucky to obtain mine
The Bowley locks are really cool.
Once you see this design, you can’t unsee it.
Makers express our creativity through solving problems we find engaging. It's a wonderful way to do art, because even when it's something else, making is art.
I had no idea you could print mechanicals in place like that. I am super super impressed.
edit. "that's me having pulled out all the pins" reminds me of trying to rebearing a steering wheel on a tractor. 32 ball bearing in a spiral groove running the length of the shaft. You've got my empathy. This is gonna be a pain, but at least there's that brass plate to sortta hold them. I'm sure it's back together and working fine by now, but still.
It's quite widely used production method at least in the plastics printing industry where big powder bed printers are used, they can print parts in place without supports so you can make pretty complex interlocking parts that are impossible to make with traditional production methods like machining. It can even be used with metal 3D printers, depending on part geometry and parameters. Source: I operate metal printers for work.
@@JVL0110I'd have so much fun with a metal 3d printer.
The lock uses what I call "web supports" that break away when you jam the key in.
man.. what a compliment it must be to be told by adam savage that your fun hobby thing you did is making the world a better place, literally.
I wish you broke it down even more and further down and had to put it back together a million times. Then did it again. I just love how passionate you’re about the engineering of all items! It makes all of us so interested in the mechanics of how the most minuscule things are made, the things we take for granted. I’m positive you’re encouraging and igniting the spark in a new generation just from them watching your videos! I never thought I’d be so excited about how much precision it takes to make a nut and bolt lol. I saw those hex screws coming out and it reminded me of you making your own bolts. Thanks Adam for the videos and your genuine child like excitement for engineering! From, everyone.
Definitely look into Abloy locks. Abloy Classic is a 100+ years old lock, the grandfather of disc retainers that extremely simple in it's construction, still being sold and still considered rather secure, after 100 years. The more modern ones are impossible to get to and are works of art, you can't even tension them as the small changes to it's construction now require all discs to rotate in unison before you even get to the part where you know if it's going to unlock or not. Why I love them personally is that, other than being from Finland as am I, the design does not rely on complex set of fiddly springs and pins but instead extremely simple set of few parts, even the modern ones, and still being extremely secure. Beauty in design and simplicity as making anything complex is easy, making them simple is real hard.
I share you appreciation of locks. Fascinated by them from a very early age. Felt your pain reassembling that lock. Thank you for keeping that in ❤
What I heard in the first segment here was a positive interpretation of the phrase "fuck around and find out," and that's kinda great.
18th century French and Italian safes are beautiful. Just the keys are a thing of beauty! I am surprised Adam hasn’t mentioned them with his love of boxes and locks and keys. This is why I have become obsessed with them. It’s is a life list item to acquire one. Hope he sees this and is given a new rabbit hole to fall down.
I have Bowley deadbolts on my house doors. I love them; they’re super secure and they’re just really cool to boot.
Love you Adam! We can feel how passionate you are and the love just through your words! Thank you for another video!
Oh wow I never expected my Bowley to show up on here. I've been using them for years, it's the best retail lock on earth, better is not available to the public.
This has been my favourite lock design for years now!The simplicity is ingenious!
I have Bowley lock on my front door. I was initially concerned about the fragility of the key, as well. I'm here to tell you it is NOT a concern. It's machined from stainless and you can't bend or break that key without tools. I assure you, the Kwikset key on your keychain is far more bendable/breakable than the Bowley key.
On my tractor trailer, I use an Enforcer 1217 Adjustable Swing Door Trailer Lock. It wraps around the door bars on the trailer with two adjustable pieces of rather heavy grade steel. The padlock shank has holes punched through both plates. When locked, the shank is pulled tight into a groved bar that holds the all in place. For the final touches, the pad part of the lock sits in a curved armored housing with an asymmetrical curved key to lock and unlock it. There are pictures of other trailers using this lock during a roll-over accident. The trailer was wrecked, but the lock held and kept the doors closed.
_That_ is one serious lock. The metal one kicks ass too.
Failure is always an option. Thanks for ending the video the way you did. While I know he got it put back together it was great to see someone else have that OFFS moment.
LPL is such a good channel. It's so nice to see that Adam watches LPL.
3D Printing is my greatest Hobby. Goes hand in hand with my day to day job and really let's me explore my mind when it comes to solving problems. ❤
I cracked up at the "minimal security" that's GENIUS. XD
Thanks I thought it was a nice addition to the design!
I think the number 1 thing I love about Adam, is how excited he is about the little things in life.... I wish I could that excited about something trivial...
Lockpicking Lawyer, Locknoob, Bosnian Bill... Tought me a lot!
You might want to make yourself a pin-tray for these things. Interesting easy one day build project ;)
Arrrgh! I know that feeling. Most recent for me was my cat got her claw stuck and knocked the F key off my Asus laptop keyboard. You’d think that’s no big deal, but there are three nylon pieces and the keycap which have to go together in one specific way and the problem is that it is really difficult to figure out how because it has to be done underneath the keycap which you can’t see through. I’ve repaired equipment for almost 50 years and know a lot of tricks, but this job took four hours to get right, but I wasn’t going to let it go until I got it right. In the end I got a great appreciation for the engineering of something which contained mere pennies worth of nylon and ABS. The thing that bends my mind is how the heck the entire keyboard is manufactured at scale. Even now that I know the assembly trick, it still takes me 20 seconds or so to put the key assembly together. There must be a really amazing machine which can handle all approximately 80 keys at once so that Asus can pay less than 10 Dollars for the keyboard of a computer which sells for about 200 Dollars at retail. Just amazing.
"that is a boring problem" speaks to me in a way that can't be put into other words.....
I allready see the possibilitys. This is actually reall good.
I'm so excited you see possibilities from this! That's exactly what I was hoping to do when designing the lock!
If you're upbfor sharing, I'm always looking for new challenges!
McNally needs to be notified. lol
You are using a minimal security plasti-lock, it can be opened with a minimal security plasti-lock
@@goodBEan LOL
Word is, if you can perfectly throw a framing square and have it ricochet, the sound will call him.
He just bursts into the workshop, slaps the lock open with his lubed hand, tosses a tactical triangle at the camera, and then peace's out
😂😂😂
Always wondered why haven't you ever been on scrapheap challenge man then I watch your videos and see how great a detail you get into everything Nd the scrapheap is the last place you'd wanna be haha
I will never get tired of the tape on the clacker getting thicker and thicker. 😄
OMG YES! @4:13 The longer I work as an engineer, the more strongly I believe that all our best ideas and innovations come from individual, intrinsic curiosity. It takes a huge amount of discipline and money and other stuff to take that great idea and make it into something real and useful, but the most elegant solutions come from a person who has the space/time/energy/privilege to pursue their ideas
"If necessity is the mother of invention, then boredom, curiosity, and love are its father." -Adam Savage, probably
Fathers? Invention is a bastard. As the last 10 seconds of the video shows.
Even though you spent a fair amount of the first part of the video saying you wouldn't show putting it back together I appreciate the effort and would liked to have seen more of your frustration in doing so.
I love that you videos are not super edited and crazy like wverything else on yt
If you ever find yourself planning to go to northwestern Virginia for some reason, see if you can finagle a factory tour at Medeco. You would love their setup, they're basically a huge machine shop that makes lock parts that are over-engineered to a spectacular degree.
If you do a LPL crossover, please have him pick his way into your workshop and pick every lock you have for fun.
Also I imagine you just interviewing his hands.
Never pick a lock that is in use.
@@TheBayru They can put some backup/secondary locks on some things just for show. All I am saying is it would be fun to set up an "environmental demonstration".
LOL... An interview, but never seeing the LPL's face, just his hands.
wow, that lock blew up in your hands 2 times. I can't imagine how frustrating that whole situation must've felt. Great video btw.!
Locks are my life blood. Thank you for the lock vid. It is much appreciated
Felt the pain of loosing a pin. Hope you got some tweezers
Just looking at the thumbnail I can see why this lock is special! Man, that is one secure lock!
This lock is the key to the next level of unlocking new printing possibilities
More like companies are going to use it to make products that can't be fixed because they can't be taken apart.
@@steakbbq Indeed. That's the unfortunate monkey's paw result of this sort of potentially-beneficial technology.
Adama Savage should be quarantined--his enthusiasm is infectious! 😊
I loved getting locks my hs couldn’t cut or hack. This would be a dream for a prankster like me in high school lol
Good luck Adam…I hope you get it put back together! The video was the perfect way to kick off a Monday; thank you!
I felt as if I was watching a video of myself, fumbling the lock pins over and over. 😂
I bought two Bowley padlocks and a door lock a few years ago after seeing a video from LPL. I've only used one on a shipping container that was, obviously, outside. I didn't unlock it for at least a year of Ohio weather, and when I did need to open it, I couldn't get it to function. I tried a few different things to loosen it up so I could get it open, but didn't have any luck. I believe I even wrote the company for advice but did not have any success with any method that I was able to attempt. The other two locks haven't been used yet, mostly because I haven't found an application for them, not out of any feeling that the one "failed." As Adam has already pointed out in the video, these locks are VERY serious bits of kit, extremely well made, and solid AF. Unfortunately, we eventually had to cut the one on the shipping container off and I wasn't there to see how that went. All of this probably points more to the tight tolerances in the design and construction much more so than it indicates any "weakness" of the lock. In fact, it was definitely doing its job because even with the key, everything in the container was still secure. I guess the TLDR is, "Don't leave one outside for a year without cycling it at least every month or so."
The weather will wreak havoc on almost all precision mechanisms. Which is a shame, really.
Adam: "...you can pick it with a booger and a straw."
LPL: "Challenge accepted." Proceeds to pick a Masterlock with booger and a straw.
LPL had a lock, Batallion-something-or-other, that you could pick with cooked spaghetti!
I love this video...good luck Adam. Thanks for sharing that information and experience!
I'm here for the lockpicking lawyer comments
5:30I quoted you just this week about this - "The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down!"
We need people who screw around, or nothing new gets built!
at 8:32... the key reminded me of the key that Priest Cornelius carried in "The 5th Element"
Aziz, light!
@@IndustrialJonessigh "Aziz, light!"
Yep the Lock Picking Lawyer is also one of my favourites too Adam.
🙂👍🔐,
Congratulations @lockpickinglawyer you are now the standard for locks on TH-cam.
and MCnally
I have one of these, they are fantastic!
Looking for print files for print-in-place padlock. Great video!
Here is the file!
3D-Printed Padlock STL: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/lock-key-plasti-lock-printed-in-place-lock
and
www.printables.com/model/870186-lock-key-print-in-place-locking-pack-1
this was one of the greatest encouraging talks I've ever seen.
Actually, as far as I'm aware of, the Bowley 543 still has yet to be picked by anyone! The Bowley lock that has been picked multiple times is the Original door lock. The 543 is basically the same as that, but Bowley have doubled the stakes.
@@LockPickingPaws I think Adam just got the two locks mixed up. Or at the very least, the 543 has still never been documented (while, again, the Original has been picked and documented numerous times).
If there is a video documenting the 543 being picked on TH-cam and I'm wrong though, let me know!
I don't have any amazing locks yet but I do have a couple I consider amazing stories.
I did tech for a church and it was band practice night, of course the day I got there early I inserted the key into the door got the door unlocked but my key jammed. So I decided to use the extensive knowledge I've been learning about locks and take the cylinder out try to lubricate it with some homemade graphite from a found pencil and tried to figure out why it was jamming. I pulled the lock apart and I was carefully trying to do this with makeshift tools.. and all the pins came out! On top of all that it was a master key system so all the wafers came out. I ended up essentially rekeying the lock to my key and nobody had any other issues with that lock and somehow I managed to get the master key and subsequent other keys to work fine. and That's how I found out every key was a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy and at some point in all those copies there was a slight shift leaving a slight offset just enough to cause the key to jam. Subsequently they re-keyed the entire building and I got all the old keys to play with.
That was like 2016 or something.
Fast forward 3 months ago, I started a new job. The Director comes to me and tells me they opened a closet and this is a closet where you need the key to open it cause there's no door handle. and they got their key jammed in it. I went over to take a look pull the lock cylinder out. i set it down it rolled and hit the ground and I got the key out. then dismantled the entire thing cleaned and lubricated it as it was very sticky with probably WD-40 over the many years... because I later found out it has been jamming for so long that everybody goes around saying oh there's a trick to that lock, you have to kind of pull the key to the side to be able to get it out; that the two of us did not know yet. Well after I put it back in I found out a I inadvertently fixed it so it doesn't do that anymore.
One of the springs was bent out and caught in the barrel slightly, how long had it been like that? it had to of been years since either it was re-keyed or original. I didn't have a new spring but I was able to re-bend the spring back into shape and so far it works like a normal lock.
Oh yeah one more we were getting some keys copied at a big box hardware store. They accidentally chose the wrong blank "A" which then comprehended problem "B" they put the provided key and the blank into the wrong slots which led to problem "C" can you guess what happened? because the blank was short the cutter went in and cut the master key! The system is supposed to have a failsafe where if you put the right blank in it will ride up along the edge of the blank protecting the key accidentally put into the Cutting slot, unless you put them in backwards and with a short incorrect blank! Not too long after that they got a new automated machine.
Thankfully we had two original keys for the lock.
Recognised that bowley from the thumbnail, I've always wanted one... that's sad isn't it :)
Not sad at all!!!
If anyone hasn't seen Stuff Made Here's video when he made locks for the lockpickinglawyer to pick, it's well worth the watch.
I've got some sargent and greenleaf 831b, 833, and 951 locks, all military grade.
I have never seen someone actually pick them successfully that looked real.
I've thought of sending them to LPL but I'm not sure if he has them or not, and they are quite expensive.
I know he hasn't done a video on them.
ive only had my 3d printer a few months. i love it! it's amazing to design or download something then be able to print it out. before ya know it we will be printing flux capacitors. i am def gonna check out that print-in-place lock.
If you can find it. Multiple people want it, but its untraceable. And the Tested team doesn’t respond…
The video description has been amended thanks to the tested team,
In their defense Didn't know they were making a video on my lock, and when I gave Adam my lock I didn't include my contact information.
@@erebostd I see. I've looked high and low. No luck. 😞
@@jonathandaigle5518 is it possible to get the step or stl files? From you or a site where we can buy or download it? My son and I like picking locks and messing with them. It'd be super cool to be able to print a lock to play around with.
@@jonathandaigle5518 sorry.,... i noticed the comment with the link below.
The Bowley lock looks straight out of a Sci-Fi movie. Would fit perfectly into Judge Dredd.
The key actually looks like the key from the Fifth Element.
I love that you don't just stop the video to squirrel away a problem, but show the journey through the details.