dafman:

 

I reckon this thread should be locked.

 

Mods could pick it.

Wheelbarrow01:

 

I bought a particular brand of trailer wheel lock a few years ago. 

 

A few years later I bought a competing brand of trailer wheel lock for my 2nd trailer (but the lock looked more or less identical to the first one I bought).

 

I was alarmed to find that the keys for each were 100% interchangeable. Different brands, bought from different stores around 3 years apart.

 

The brand I bought first is endorsed/recommended by my boat insurer, and I see many boats and caravans in my neighbourhood which all have the same wheel locks that I use. I wonder how many of those all have exactly the same key.....

 

I bought a cheap-ish wheel clamp trailer lock.  I found out that picking the lock or using the key was an optional action to save the wheel clamp.  I forgot it was on the wheel, it made a bang-clank sound as it fell to pieces, didn't damage the trailer or wheel. This was a few years ago, I can't remember what brand it was.
Just guessing that there may have been an original design that actually worked, was then copied and "cheapened"  to make something that didn't.  You'd have possibly thought that testing the thing out to see if it actually worked should have been something the factory making the things could have done, but I get the feeling that there's a lot of stuff being made to lowest cost in backyard sweatshop factories by people who really don't have the foggiest clue what the things they are making are actually used for.

Ive watched a few vids.
Its scary just how insecure some locks are, dont even need to 'pick' them

Padlocks : can be opened with a metal shim, cut from an old coke can .
Some doors locks (deadbolts etc) : can be opened in a few secs with a specially filed down blank & a few light taps
So , lockpicking skills : not allways needed to open them :-)

When my house deadbold failed & wouldnt open, it only took 2 whacks to knock it off the door.
I guess locks are there only to make us feel safe ,they arnt a real safeguard

Knowing people in the legal side of the industry, it's shocking how many big brand locks can be bypassed, and how easy it can be done.

Something i think should almost be a name and shame within the industry.  Yet it seems many remain on the market as "secure" and even "unbreakable" which is hugely incorrect.

We recently had a requirement for testing on a lock, touted as super secure.  It was not

Stu: My picks and practice locks arrived today. I think I ordered them on about the 7th, a day or so before the weather hammered Perth.

hsvhel:

 

Knowing people in the legal side of the industry, it's shocking how many big brand locks can be bypassed, and how easy it can be done.

 

Something i think should almost be a name and shame within the industry.  Yet it seems many remain on the market as "secure" and even "unbreakable" which is hugely incorrect.

 

We recently had a requirement for testing on a lock, touted as super secure.  It was not

 

I love the ones that the lockpicking lawyer shows that just take a whack with a hammer to pop open that are rated super secure.

Seems my picks are stuck in Customs :( Only landed on Saturday - so hopefully this week

Clint

richms:

I love the ones that the lockpicking lawyer shows that just take a whack with a hammer to pop open that are rated super secure.