Comment : Reading how easy to get around locks does not make me feel warm and fuzzy.
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Paul
Locks only keep the honest people honest.
Go to YouTube and search How to pick a lock. You can do it with a couple paper clips. I mastered this method of lock picking after 20 minutes of practice.
Yep, this can work with most inexpensive cylinder locks also. bend one into a "Sawtooth" shape and the second into a hook to turn the cylinder, wiggle pick one on the lock wafers, while putting side pressure on with the hook once the 3-4 wafers catch, it's open...
It's going to depend on the box and the lock used. What boxes are we talking about. Picking it is pretty easy and going to be least destructive, I start with that. On the older quality boxes the screwdriver "trick" can be pretty damaging depending on the construction of the box.
Partly true; most cheap locks simply disintegrate. No damage a good well made one might cause some collateral damage.
I buy old keys at garage sales and such and throw them in a organizer drawer. Whenever I pick up a locked toolbox I pull out the keys and go to work trying each one until the lock opens. I've got a pretty good track record of finding a key that works!
I've also done this: more importantly I often find the exact key I need... People don't realize they only make a small number of keys for locks. Even Ford in the 1960s had maybe 100 actual different keys. I and my HS drafting teacher "shared" the same key for our cars... I happened to look down at his car keys and recognized "my" key on his ring... and started laughing. He was amused at the coincidence, (might not have been so amused if he hadn't trusted me...)
Well...they sell bolt cutters in lowe's and home depot for less than 50 bucks that can likely cut through the shackle on a regular master lock so...
Locks aren't really to stop theft they're to stop someone who is too stupid to figure out how to defeat the security measure and/or to make it not worth their time. What good is a locked box if they can just winch or lift the whole box it into their truck bed and deal with it later, right?
Yep more of the same: you can't really stop them, just make it more difficult or increase the danger of being caught...
Man, y'all are scaring me...i got somewhere near 10k worth of box, tools, and a roll cart in another man's shop...my snappy box's lock seems hard to pick...but my hf cart's lock ain't...and I keep the key to my good box in that one...damn...
Buy a matching cylinder to your "good" box and carry one key. I can guarantee the HF cylinder is trash.
