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Charles: Welcome to The Lock Sportscast. Your weekly source for locksport news and sometimes interviews. This is episode 46 recorded April 17th, 2021. I'm your host Charles Current.
 In today's episode, finding the elusive Assa twin exclusive 5,700, cop to locksmith? The theory of picking taper drivers, how to make your own notched decoder, first public pick of the Gerta 6,000, lockpicking criminals, sails and giveaways.
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quick announcement before we get into the news, I'm thinking of modifying my monthly giveaway to include the option of a gift card or gift certificate instead of a lock. Um, normally I just give away one of my custom engraved pack locks every month, but I'm thinking about adding a gift certificate or gift card option. But I want that option, that gift card or gift ticket to be for a service run by a community member.
I kind of feel this benefits, people who already have won a lock or anybody else that may not particularly want my PacLock and it should also benefit the community member running the service that the gift certificate is for kind of keeps my money that I'm spending in the locksport community. So if you have a web store or any kind of a service. For the locksport community that has the ability to issue a gift card or gift certificate, or you want to work something out, preferably in that 20 to $25 range contact me so I can make arrangements to purchase some and we'll give it a try and see what happens. 
First up in the news, we have an article called lessons from lockdown. What central Texans learn during a year of COVID-19 the one article in there? I was focused a little bit on locksport. So I'll just read that here. Many of us spent more time outdoors learning to take notice and appreciate the people and things around us. Some of us like Brian, Forget, he used long stretches, stuck at home to learn a new hobby, Forget lock picked through lockdown, keeping his hands busy, trying to pick locks every night instead of eating ice cream in front of the TV.
So. I think a lot of us who are, uh, in the community right now, either use what extra time might've had to our advantage in, uh, advancing and lock sport. And I think it brought a few new people in just like this gentlemen. So it is, uh, one thing that came out of this whole lockdown issue, I guess.
 In Blooming, Bloomington, Indiana Blooming Labs, Hackerspace has been, uh, offering lock picking for sport, uh, workshops looks like they have another one scheduled for Saturday, April 24th, 2021, between one and 3:00 PM. This is a virtual format. You pick up kits from the hackerspace itself. The cost is $25, $10 from members plus a lock picking kit. They have kits for sale or also uh borrow a kit where you just leave a deposit.
The maximum class size is currently 10 students. It says picking locks is a fun pastime, and we'll show you how it's done in a virtual workshop. We'll start with our code of ethics and then dive into picking lockpicks will be available for sale and delivered ahead of the virtual workshop. Locks will also be provided.
So I have a link to that in the show notes, in case you're in the area and you're interested, or, you know, somebody who wants to learn. 
First step in community news I'd like to congratulate dark arts lockpicking for hitting in his 2000 subscriber mark. Congratulations, well earned. I was enjoying watching your live streams, uh, last week. 
And. The lockpicking patrolman is now documenting his journey to becoming a locksmith with a new vlog series. So far he's put in his application and it's been a, and he has been approved to take a test, which basically means the S the, uh, police officer. Passed the background check, basically. So he's scheduled to take his test and he's put a playlist on his YouTube channel, documenting the experience. The playlist is called Cop to locksmith a Vlog and I will have a link to that in the show notes, in case you're interested, I recommend you go check it out.
Artichoke 2000 has put out a really good video on picking tapered pins. He demonstrates and explains what's actually happening with the pins. The video is number 23 the theory of picking taper drivers. 
His description reads in this video, we'll explore the theory of picking my least favorite security pin, the taper driver special. Thanks to Mr. Timothy Digby digs. Proprietor of Digby lock and tools for creating the fantastic cutaway in this video. And I will have a link to the video and also to Digby lock-in tool in the show notes, uh, digs does do custom work like custom cutaways in case anybody is interested.
Fish Picks put out a video about how to make your own notch decoder for combination locks, the videos entitled how to make your own notch decoder to open combination locks.
His description reads. In this episode, I'll be taking you through a detailed tutorial so that you can make your own notch decoder to open combination locks. This bypass tool will allow you to decode many of the commercially available combination locks and key safes and given how expensive and fragile the commercially available models are, it could well save you some money and frustration over time.
It's a pretty good video. He goes over the dimensions, the materials he used, how he formed the handles, all that, and then how to use the tool. So good video.
 Mr. Black magic has put out another one of his lock cam videos. This one on the Assa decimal. And he goes through and shows you how to pick it with the down the key way shot, um, really is a great way to see exactly what he's doing while he's in there. He also guts it and explains the V the lock some, and he expects this to be confirmed as a new speed picking record with a time of 43 seconds. And I know I pronounce this wrong name, wrong, but, uh, yeah, bend. Uh, has completed what appears to be the first public pick of the Gerta 6,000.
Um, I'm going to be saying that from now on that it appears to be the first public pick of the whatever lock. At least that's what I'm planning on saying, because there's no way to guarantee that somebody somewhere in some lock picking group that isn't online, didn't pick one of these before. Um, and.
While you can try to search for videos. You may not necessarily find everything that's out there. So for now, just going to say, this is what appears to be the first public pick of the Gerta 6,000 by Yabende and his video will be linked in the show notes. Congratulations on that. Excellent picking. 
Another quick reminder tool, us board election voting will be open through April 23rd. Not much time left. If you haven't voted already, make sure you do. If you are a member of tool and you have not received the information on how to vote yet, then make sure to reach out to tool and see what what's going on with your membership on April 14th.
 Rune posted a in the speed locks.org discord in the post reads, we are at the halfway point for pre-orders for the tournament of champions, 2021. If you have not done so pre-order your lock using the following document, any provides a link to the form for pre-ordering your lock payment of $35. Us for us reticent residents or $45, us for international residents can be submitted and he provides a PayPal link. And must be submitted before May 1st, 2021 to confirm your spot in the tournament.
He says current confirmed participants in the tournament are digs. Locksport Viking. The tin man, 1986, Panda frog lemon, dusty and windy, Georgia. Jim HV, logic, crackin, big truck and froggy picker the current prize pool is a master lock. Number four, a master lock number six, Berg vokner Atlantic quick set mortis, four X four times custom dig trays, custom pick 3d printed followers and holders. Silver American lock, 1166 and silver Avis 74 40 lotto says, please keep sharing and spreading the word to increase that prize pool. 
And while we're on the subject of speed locks.org, we have a couple new speed records posted on the 16th. Ruin picker picked the Brink's 40 millimeter laminated padlock in 3.103 seconds and crack and pick the Avis 55 40 in 5.08 seconds.
 And before I go onto announcing the new lock pickers, United karate belts, I'd just like to put out there for anybody who's not familiar with the lock pickers, united karate belt system. That they can check out what it's all about either by listening toThe lock Sportscast episode, number two, entitled breaking rules and getting the belt or head over to R slash lockpicking on Reddit and check out the belt ranking information sidebar page. And they'll give you all of the details about what the system is about and how it works for new belts this week.
Uh, as of the recording of this.
I'm not sure how to pronounce that. Earned Brown and mineral Forex earned red. Congratulations on those accomplishments. 
Now it's time to take a quick break and say thank you to the people that made this episode possible. We have the founding executive producers. These are my Patrion subscribers. We have BillN. Medler Panda frog, Michael Gilchrist, Starry Lock, William Brain, Dave, to be deciphered Lebonne's locksport journey, Pat from uncensored tactical, pH picker, three records and a raincoat and Chirael and the chief content producer for this episode will also be Chirael. He sent in the most information for me to use this episode.
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Keep it a reasonable length, plight work and family safe, not political and no drama. And I will, uh, share that on the show. So back in episode 42, I shared a video by lock pickers, United contributor mal in which he tears down the Assa twin exclusive 5,700 and discusses. What makes this twin exclusive different from the normal twin exclusive?
That's basically an upgrade to the twin 6,000 series. That video was as far as we know, the first public representation of that lock in that we know of. And his video was entitled. LPU tear down Assa twin exclusive 5,700. More than one listener recommended that I contact Mau to get the story of how he discovered and obtained that rare lock.
So with the help of Culper Woodhall, I was able to get a hold of Mao and get the story. So I will, uh, share that with you now. So miles says, I first learned about the twin exclusives from hand phase asset twin article, where he has some official diagram showing the sidebar operation and the side pins.
Although the resolution is too low to really see the counter milling in the sidebar. He did not seem aware that there are two different twin exclusives that only really share a name. And he mixes information about both of them as he talks about it. This was really confusing. And if you look into official asset literature, they explained the twin exclusive is an upgrade to the 6,000 and they are identical except for the key way.
However, if you Google twin exclusive, you can find a few pictures and stock photos showing a key that looks nothing like a twin 6,000 key, and it says 20 exclusive right on it. As you look into that more, you find a lot of dot E Estonian. Websites that talk about it and name it. The 5,700 series, though, most of them will tell you it's no longer made and steer you toward the D 12.
Instead, some sites do have it for sale, but after contacting their customer service, they will tell you that those are four key systems only, and you can order, and you can only order them special from the factory. He'd fall to your system. And they do not come with keys. These are only included in the website at all, because the website did a direct port of items from the Baltic asset catalog and the particular locksmith or hardware supplier who runs the site does not actually have any of them.
Rather the way to actually buy them is through the Assa max version. As a max is just a marketing term that Assa uses to describe blocks that were sold direct to consumers in hardware stores and such. And they come in a box with several keys and a key card. They did this for twin commies and twin pros among other locks.
This is something I only learned later, and this is the specific item to track down. It is very difficult to do that. I try to, to contact a bunch of different hardware, suppliers and locksmith. Although most of them ignored me or gave me the same speech that the locks are no longer made and they recommend to use the D 12.
Instead, I tried to get somebody in Astonia to buy it for me via an international shopper package forwarding sort of website. I tried to hunt down any other site that even mentioned the name to see if they would sell it to me. The way I was able to get it in the end was through an Estonian electronics wholesaler, who I randomly contacted on eBay to see if he had any way to order it.
At this point in my search for this lock, I had a list of future options to try and people to contact. And this was one of the later ones. And one, I gave low chance of success. I fully expected this guy to tell me that locks, aren't what he usually deals with. And he can't help me, but he said he was happy to look for it and reach out to his suppliers.
He got back to me a few days later saying it was extremely difficult to find as it had been discontinued, but one supplier did have a few tend to be exact. He told me it would be $200 each plus shipping and taxes. This was super expensive, but I was eager to have this thing in my hands. At this point, I still had no idea what was in the lock.
Information about it is nearly non-existent besides typical asset information about patented key ways. And it has a side bin mechanism and so forth. There were maybe four or five pictures of it on the whole internet, and none of them showed the guts. I know that it could easily arrive and have no sidebar installed or have an unremarkable sidebar mechanism, identical to some other Assa or anything really.
It was only while waiting for, to rive. Did I go back and look closely at Han phase article pictures and notice two distinct fences with a gap in the middle? I got pretty excited to see that that was what made the lock different and was pretty happy to see. That was exactly how the locked worked when it arrived.
And I gutted it. This was a whole, nearly two year long search for this lock. And it surprisingly actually paid off the mechanism is so unique and interesting to me. And it would probably remain a favorite in my collection for a long while. And I don't blame you Mau. Wow. What a story? Um, now that's determination and that's, uh, he should search this thing out, spent all this time and then, uh, shared it with all of us.
And we got to learn something new because of his hard work. So. Thank you, Michelle. Thank you for the story. Thank you for your dedication to keep searching that out and finding that luck and now to the crazy locksmith story of the week, which comes from the American key supply website link in the show notes.
The story reads the strangest service call I've been on was shortly after I started on my own. I received a call regarding a lock that was jammed and the male party calling had broken the only two keys he had to lock. When I arrived, he escorted me to the master bedroom where his wife was attached to the brass headboard by a pair of cheap handcuffs, covering the best she could well to manipulate the open and release her to freedom to this day, occasionally see them and just smile knowing their secret of the past.
Moving on to lockpicking criminal news. Our first story is out of Taswell, Virginia, entitled to charged with video game fraud. It's from the SW VA today.com website and was written by Jim Talbert says two people are in custody for allegedly defrauding gambling devices at a local store major Harold Hedley, the Tazewell County Sheriff's office said deputies responded to a call at the stop and save in Bluefield.
The clerk called nine 11 after two men attempted to cash in tickets, they obtained from machines at the store. Hedley said the two suspects were using a piece of currency covered with plastic that had hooks attached to it. They would slide the currency into the machine and once the purchase was registered and they obtained the tickets, they use the hooks to pull the money out.
The store clerk became suspicious and reviews to pay the men when they attempted to cash out and call police who arrived before the men departed, both are charged with obtaining money by false pretenses. Petty larceny and attempting to obtain money by false pretenses. From gambling, both men are being held at the South West regional jail without bond at least said the Sheriff's office obtained a search warrant April 2nd, and sees the vehicle.
The two men were traveling in. They discovered $3,400 in cash in a sock, more hooks, lock picks, and key blanks. The major said all the information obtained by the Sheriff's office was sent to the Commonwealth attorney's office. The next story is out of lots in Oklahoma lockpicking and door kicking leads to citizens arrest from the lost Lawton cuts to tuition by Chris Wilson.
A Latin man is in jail after a bar owner placed him under citizen's arrest for trespassing Saturday afternoon. Police were called to the 1100 block of South West summit Avenue because the mail was attempted to pick a lock door. According to police reports, when officers arrived, they saw a man kicking the door at two local bar.
When the man and notice police officers, he roomed his shirt and began yelling at the officers. The officers ordered the man to sit down. At which time he removed a large kitchen knife and threw it on the ground. After placing the man in handcuffs, officers spoke with the bar owner, who said the man had been served a beer.
The man against the advice of the bartender, took the beer outside the establishment, the owner followed the man out to demand. He returned the beverage. He then threw the bottle at the owner at which point the owner told the man to leave the man then charged toward the door, but the owner was able to close and lock the door before he, uh, could reenter the bar.
According to the police report, the man began to yell threats while kicking the door. And at some point attempted to pick the lock. The man told officers he was kicking the door because he believed his brother was being held against his will in the bar. After three attempts, by police to talk with the brother, he finally identified himself and came outside.
Once outside the brother told the man to quit acting stupid officers, then heard the man threatened to kill the owner for holding his brother against as well. The officers asked the owner if they would like to place the man under citizens arrest to which the owner replied. Yes, he threatened me.
Officers then completed a citizen's arrest against the man for criminal trespassing and threatening to form acts of violence. According to the report, the man was transported to the city jail where according to reports, he became even more uncompliant onto sales. For this week. We have a mega depot.com 5% off an order of $250 or more on Avis products with the code a B U five that expires on April 30th.
We have the 10% off code at 3d lock sports with the code pack lock 10, make a locks 15% off with the code by Maaco and it appears they're back. Friday specials page is still working as of this recording, UK lock pickers, 10% off with the code gift. Let's start off the giveaway section with a new giveaway from Eagle evil, arch conservative, the leather and locks two, three, four subscriber giveaway, hashtag leather and locks.
Two prize packages, one leather, one locks ends May 3rd, 2021. Rules quick overview here. Be a subscriber. If you have a lock spar channel, some show somewhere outside that you enjoy, preferably picking a lock at that location. Use the hashtag leather and locks. If you don't have a channel email with a picture of your favorite location, don't uh, specify if you want the leather or the locks, then got the email there again ends May 3rd, 2021.
We still have the seven deadly sins, hashtag speed loft giveaway by Sloss picker. And there are reminder, there are two rounds in that the first round ends, 15th of May giving away seven separate Masterlock 68 30 fives, which will be used for the second round of the giveaway. So make sure you get over there and check that out.
If you haven't already. It looks like a pretty fun challenge. I won't go through all the rules. This time. Panda frog is still having the hashtag speed Panda 1500 giveaway. Um, quick, one of that is you have to speed, pick a lock and submit it to speed locks, dot org, follow all the rules. And the entry is valid.
Once the speed pick is accepted by the admins, there will be four separate winners in that, and it ends the 1st of May head over to his channel link in the show notes. For all the rules, rune picker does, uh, tend to give away the challenge locks. He picks in a giveaway on Saturdays. So you can go over to his channel and check that out.
Panda frog also has his monthly giveaway for challenge, coin and locks. Currently the April giveaway is running and he's got. Three separate giveaway prizes pools running this month. So make sure you head over to his channel and check it out again. Link in the show notes. CLK supplies has their hashtag lock boss giveaway every week.
Make sure you head over to their channel. Check those out. If you're into the giveaway thing, star lock and pocket women, do the hashtag shout out Monday series. Where they each highlight a channel with fewer than a hundred subscribers. They try to incentivize you to head over there and check out those channels and comment by a star lock holds a giveaway every month for a 20 pound law lock tools, gift certificate.
So make sure you head over there, check that out and check out those new channels and show them some support. I have my. What is currently called the PAC lock a month giveaway. But as I said at the beginning of the video, I I'm thinking about changing some of that up again. So stay tuned for further details, but for now the giveaway is still running for a pack lock a month for providing information or sharing this podcast.
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