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[00:00:00] Charles Current: Welcome to The Lock Sportscast or weekly source blocks. Bard news. This is episode 93 recorded March 13th, 2022. I'm your host Charles Grant in today's episode tool U S board election and candidate information. Finding the right tension. The LPU shirt fundraiser is coming soon. The 2021 Lockie award winners, sales, giveaways, and more. 

[00:00:38] you can subscribe to the audio version of the show on most podcast apps and at The Lock Sportscast dot com. You can subscribe to the video version on YouTube or Odyssey links to stories discussed will be in the show notes. Some apps limit the length of show notes and the ability to post. But you can always find full show notes with links at The Lock Sportscast dot com. 

[00:00:57] And if you want to add a slash and the episode number to that, it'll take you right to the episodes page. The lucky awards live stream was broadcast earlier today and is available to watch for anyone who missed it. It is on this channel on YouTube, The Lock Sportscast, YouTube. Winners will also be announced at the very end of this episode. 

[00:01:17] If you want to watch the episode and not have spoilers, feel free to stop this episode right after the giveaway section, if not keep listening and you'll get to know who won which categories. Okay. And, uh, next is a correction of a previous correction. Originally H gas systems locking key had provided me information that the most recent version of the, uh, QX three. 

[00:01:43] Safe dialer would do manipulation. And then I got information from vent that, that it wasn't, that it was cheaper than the 10,000 originally told to me, and that it didn't do manipulation. And I think the confusion here was that it's not called the QX three, but HKS systems lock and key did send me the information about the device here. 

[00:02:04] And I've linked to a page on lock masters for the device. It is simply appears to be called the combi. Manipulator and Dyler they say the combi pluses, a tablet-based group to lock manipulator for opening three and four wheel safe locks. The average opening time is approximately one to one and a half hours. 

[00:02:23] While dollars have been successfully opening locks for 25 to 30 years. They also have some disadvantages. One big disadvantage is the time it takes to open the locks. The opening time can be from one hour to 30 plus. Another disadvantage is the internal, where that is created inside The Lock. This is caused by a dollar running long hours on a specific Lock combi. 

[00:02:44] Plus is both a manipulator and a dialer. At any time. The user can transfer, found numbers from the manipulator portion of the app directly to the dialer app. This allows the user to find a wheel by manipulation, then put it in Dyler mode to open the lock in about one hour. So if you want the manipulator portion of the. 

[00:03:04] The device, it will cost you about $10,000 versus the cost of just the dialer itself. And there is a new post on deviance blog about the tool U S board election and candidates in that post. He states he is not running for reelection on the tool, us board, thus ending his 14 year run as a board. That post also lists the current candidates for the tool board of directors and includes information about each and his thoughts on each of them. 

[00:03:38] And an interesting fact this year is that this is the first time in history of the organization, that there is a possibility that a woman could hold a board member position within tool us. I would recommend going and checking that out. If you are a, a tool member who will be voting in this year's. So with that, I'd like to say thank you to deviant and the other board members for the time and effort that they put into tool. 

[00:04:02] And thank you for, especially to deviant for the long serving time that he put in there that is a volunteer position. And he put a lot of his time and effort into making tool us what it is today. So thank you very much, deviant for all of. And while we're on the subject of blog posts, there is a new post on the subtle digs blog called finding the right tension. 

[00:04:30] How much pressure do you need to pick a lock? Uh, the opening of the blog post says how much tension do you need to pick a lock? It would help when picking a lock. If he knew what kind of force you needed to exert in this article, I will go over the method for finding out how much tension is needed to pick different kinds of. 

[00:04:48] And to be honest, I haven't had time to read the article. It just popped up on my feed. So I thought I would let you know about it. Also popping up in my feed right before I record this. There's a post on the Lock Pickers, United discord that says the fourth LPU shirt fundraiser is coming up. They say it will start. 

[00:05:09] Probably next week. So watch for announcement and it will end after two weeks. So make sure that you pay attention and get in quick. If you want to get a shirt and it looks like copra will be organizing a, another run of serialized picks this time, a deep hook. Last time was a standard hook and they say to give us an idea on numbers for pigs, please react with the pickax icon. 

[00:05:34] If you are seriously interested. No commitment yet, but, uh, they would like, uh, an idea of how many they should make if you're a member of the LPU discord and you're interested be sure to head over there and, uh, let them know. The only, only video in the videos category this week is going to be the Lockey awards live stream that I did earlier today. 

[00:05:54] If you are interested, be sure to head over there and check that out. It's an hour and 16 minutes long. You can skip the first section because it's just me waiting for people to join in, but it wasn't. Fun experience. And I did make a couple of mistakes. So you can feel free to pick on me in the comments for that, if you would like, and something different for products this week, quite often, you see t-shirts I have quite a few t-shirts that are locked, picking oriented, and this time we have something different, The Lock pick mini skirt. 

[00:06:27] So for those of you who might be interested in wearing a miniskirt, this mini skirt has a series of. Very bright neon colored lockpick images and tension wrench shapes printed around the miniskirt. So might be something for some of you to check out 

[00:06:54] over Lock Pickers United. We have some new belts. This. For a purple belt, we have JC lock lockpicking. And for brown belt, we have Ru one congratulations to both of you for your new belts and the, uh, demonstration of your skills there. We also, last week I missed that there had been a post for the latest belt stats. 

[00:07:16] So I thought I would go over that real. On the discord, we have 179 white belts, 278, yellow belts, 573, orange belts, 329 greenbelts, 162 blue belt, 98 purple 49, brown 44 red and we're up to 84 black belts. I can remember when that was in the teens and then moving on to the Reddit posts and the. These overlap people who are on the dis quarter, almost always on the Reddit. 

[00:07:49] So there's going to be a lot of carry over here out of a total of 5,543 people participating. We have 931 white belts, 1,517 yellow belts, 1,934 orange 658 green, 2 24 blue 1 0 5 purple 50 brown. 40 red and the same 84 black belts carry over there. So the number of black belts is definitely increasing, used to run. 

[00:08:19] If I remember right about 1% and right now, by my calculation, we're up to about 1.5% of the people participating have made it to black belt for anyone not already familiar with the Lock Pickers United belt system. There are links in the show notes to the official page, as well as some videos that explain the system, feel free to check those out. 

[00:08:40] Now it's time to say thank you to the people that made this episode possible. First off we have it. Executive producer for this episode is going to be a gentleman named David who left a very generous $100 donation in my PayPal account. I'm not clear exactly. There was no note that I saw to explain whether that was for sure for the podcast or lucky awards. 

[00:09:04] So I'm just giving credit on. Other producers for this episode include the Patrion subscribers we have. Panda-Frog Michael Gilchrist, Starrylock Williams brain Dave, to be deciphered Liibans Locksports Journey. Pat from uncensored tactical three records and a coach REL Dr. Hog master Clayton Howard, AKA Coulton MOG, John Locke, Rhett yoke. 

[00:09:22] Mr. Picker, cranky Lock Pickers, JHP picking and bare bones. Lockpicking four chief content producer for this episode. I've got, I have a three-way tie, so we have bare bones. Lockpicking Chirael and Panda-Frog. Other content producers are Albert LaBelle down under monkey gravity, karma, HKS systems lock and key HV logic. 

[00:09:41] I Fisk Jeff mosque, Joe pecs, Joshua Gonzales, Michael Gilchrist, Panda-Frog and Tony reli. Thank you to all of you for your support and help in producing this. The show is only possible because of that support. So if you value the podcast, please help support it by sending in news links, events, giveaway information, anything you have that's Locksports related that you think the community would, uh, like to know you can send it to podcast at The Lock Sportscast dot com or any of the methods that are listed in the show notes. 

[00:10:12] Don't forget to share the podcast with your lockpicking friends. You can leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, a comment and a thumbs up on YouTube or. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast or the YouTube channel or even the Odyssey channel. And if you want to support financially, feel free to donate on PayPal or subscribe on Patrion for all the different ways to support the show. 

[00:10:34] You can go to the Locksports cast.com/support. If you support the show with a donation or information that I use in the show, I will give you credit in the show and in the show notes, just like those people I just mentioned earlier. If you have a story about Locksports experiences you've had in Locksports in any way, feel free to send them in to podcasts as The Lock Sportscast dot com or one of the other methods. 

[00:10:58] And I would love to share them on the show. If you have feedback for me on the show, you can send that in and I can either keep it confidential or share it publicly. That's up to you. Just remember to keep it reasonable length, polite work, family safe, no politics, and no drama. If you want it shared on the. 

[00:11:17] And we're going to move right on to sales. No real changes. From last week, we have the buy two, get one free sale@thinkpeterson.com and link will be in the show notes, or just go to their website and click on buy two, get one free in the menu over at bare bones. Lockpicking you can use the coupon code, listen to The Lock Sportscast 2022. 

[00:11:41] And I believe it is currently 15%. Off storewide on top of other discounts or sale items. I haven't seen any change to that yet, but it may change in the future. So might want to take advantage of it while you can. over@lockpickmall.com. You can use the code Albert for 6% off, or you can use the code. Joe picks for 6% off. 

[00:12:05] Either one of them will work and get you 6% at lockpick Maldives. Custom picks are on sale at mats Lock, pitt.com still. So you can head over there for some beautiful custom picks over at 3d Locksports dot com. You can use the code L S cast 10 for 10% off on all of your 3d printed Locksports accessories. 

[00:12:31] You can use the code by Maaco for 15% off@maacolocks.com. And you can use the code gift for 10% off at UK Lock Pickers dot co.uk. Moving on to giveaways. We have a new one down under monkey, put out a video doing a review of bare bones lockpicking products, and is also running a giveaway along with that. 

[00:12:55] All you have to do is go to the video and leave a comment. Be sure to re watch the video and read the description. So you know how you need to comment to get entered into that giveaway. And that giveaway ends March 20th. So you have about a week to get entered for a chance to win some bare bones. 

[00:13:16] Lockpicking picks HV logic 500 subscriber giveaway is still running. Make a video showing off your locks collection and use his hashtag to get entered before March 26. And if you were lucky enough to make it through the first round of Panda-Frog speed ABUS giveaway, the second part is still running until the 31st of March, 2022. 

[00:13:42] So make sure to get your speed picking entry in. So you have a chance to win the final prize. Also a Panda-Frog is still running the hashtag mini Panda-Frog to giveaway. You have four chances to win, but you can only win one prize guests, the birthday birth, weight, birth size of the new Panda mini Panda-Frog coming. 

[00:14:05] And there will also be one random draw that giveaway closes when mini Panda-Frog two is born. And that should be around the 8th of June, sometime as to current expected due date. So make sure to get your entries in before the babies. C. Okay. Supplies also does their hashtag lockbox giveaway. Lots of good prizes over there. 

[00:14:29] So if you're into giveaways, you might want to check that one out. And now it's time to announce the winners of the 2021 Lockie awards. If you don't want to know if you want to watch the live stream first, be sure to tune out here, otherwise lock your winners for 2021. I'm just going to go through them real quick. 

[00:14:48] Now, suspense. Best editing went to artichoke 2000 for his video, the theory of picking gins bull drivers gin series part one best audio also went to artichoke 2000 this time for the M heart high security pic and deconstructed video. Best lighting went to Joe picks for Goldie nine, picked and gutted best visual aids and effects went to artichoke 2004. 

[00:15:14] The theory of picking gen spool drivers gen series. Most informative video, went to Uganda for high pin count lock, tutorial strategy and everything you need to know about them to like them. Most creative video went to rubber band for the video. Key modification, make your keys harder to copy. Funniest video went to Lock Pickers United for the Lock Pickers United disaster. 

[00:15:38] Real I believe edited by gravity karma. Most impressive pick went to Mr. Paradise for his pick of the unpickable ums, seven 50 best out of package pick went to John Locke for a special Avis 72 40 Peck. Most impressive gutting disaster went again to Lock Pickers United for the Lock Pickers, United disaster real most supportive commenter for the second year in a row, went to pocket woman. 

[00:16:08] So congratulations. Most creative challenge went to Panda-Frog for the one finger pinking challenge. Most creative giveaway went to a hug master 13 for Dr. Hug masters, assess squint scriber. Pick The Lock wrong giveaway. Best challenge Lock went to down at a monkey for frag out. Best custom made pick, went to pick Smith for his pick gut. 

[00:16:36] And the community spirit award this year for the second year in a row, went to Panda-Frog for all the wonderful things that he does for the community. He creates numeral numerous challenges, giveaways, and websites to help support the community. So thank you to Panda-Frog for another wonderful year of support. 

[00:16:56] And this year I had a special award that I started this year. Called The Lock Sportscast award, which is for somebody that is not already recognized in the awards, but I think deserves some recognition this year. I gave it to Sophie Holden for their amazing creation, the program called Sophie's safe cracking simulator. 

[00:17:19] I use it extensively when I'm trying to visualize what's happening inside a lock, because it has this x-ray view where you can see through the door and see what the wheels are doing as you turn the nut. It is wonderful for those of us who don't have cutaway locks to really understand what's going on and get a feel for manipulating safes. 

[00:17:40] Thank you everyone who participated and nominated and voted in the Lockey awards really, really appreciate it. Thank you to everyone who had the time to show up for a Sunday live stream and catch the show alive. I really appreciated having everybody in there commenting and having a good time. So thank you again. 

[00:17:58] For another wonderful year and we'll try to get things rolling again for next year. Remember to send me any information you have that's Locksports related, even if you don't think it's important, it could be a bit of information that really fits together with some other stories I'm working on or. It doesn't harm me if it doesn't, but I could definitely use all the information I can get. 

[00:18:21] I want to thank everybody who has sent information in for earlier episodes. And especially this episode, I really, really appreciate it. And remember to keep it legal. .