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Beat me to it. Yeah, the idea of separating the input step from the test step is something that was done in that lock as well.



Its the standard procedure for "unpickable" locks before SMH's lock too.


Yeah same idea behind my lock too:

https://youtu.be/7hUonUE1hEY

I'd guess many many people have had this same idea.


According to the video's pinned comment thread, that lock was sent to LockPickingLayer a few months ago, who never responded. I suppose, from my cousin comment, that it's with the other locks LPL can't pick yet.


Yeah. In fairness someone did link a method that I think could my lock (and this one). Basically you attach a laser to it so you can very accurately tell how far the key turned. That gives you a way to test the pins even though you can't directly manipulate them.

Very very tedious though and I never tried it.


LPL Did both the locks in video 1299: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecy1FBdCRbQ


Yours is so much simpler and more elegant. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful.


Thanks!


I quite liked your version. Seems a bit more robust but I know nothing about this space and perhaps it was just that your presentation was fascinating


It certainly seems like a simpler, cleaner design. So did LPL try to pick it? (Edit: I see you wrote elsewhere in the thread that he never replied.)




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