Secure Any Padlock - TetraProof!!

The basic idea is to craft a simple insert to apply to the locks mechanism, which occupies the space exploited by the "shim" technique.

This I'ble will show you how to prevent a shim ala Open Any Padlock Tetranitrate style being used to open your padlocks.

With all those shims out there spawned by that I'ble, we need some means of preventing people from using them to gain access to our valuables.

These only take a second or two each to make and won't cost you anything...
Just like the shims...

You better be quick those shims are easy to make and the criminals are coming to violate your padlocks..

What are you waiting for??

Lets begin...

Step 1: Materials

You don't need much for these.

~ Aluminium can (Preferably of the alcoholic type and better still, full to begin with.)
~ Scissors
~ Super-Glue

Quick that's what you need to make the shims!!
Run RUN!!
Don't let the thieves beat you to a can!

Note: It would be a good idea, to throw some gloves on also. Those cans bite!!

Comments

[grinja]

more often the hasp or padbolt is weaker than the lock so y bother with the lock when the other hardware is made of zinc coated crap steel that you can twist off bare handed almost !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a pair of pliers and .......... IN

[morphious69]

wow I love how this turned in to an online text bases role playing game. seriously if you do this right it will possibly deter some one from using a shim 9trick is to make sure it is not obvious from looking that the lock is proofed against it so that the person trying to remove it will think they can just use the shim and waste time trying the shim possibly even cutting their fingers in the process. if there is a camera present when they show up to pick the lock then it will be a major fail too.

[Lftndbt]

The irony would kill me before I tried even opening it.
:)

[madison_ultralight]

The idea of the shim is that you leave no trace and do not damage the lock. Otherwise, bolt cutters work nicely...

[The Lightning Stalker]

Don't they get messed up after a few locks? Anyway, this goes way back before Tetranitrate. As long as there's been padlocks, there's been the padlock "slimjim"

[_soapy_]

Nice trick. Of course, if your padlock is cheap and rubbish enough to shim then you probably need a better one. Those terrible tolerances on the shackle fit, and the fact that it's not got ball bearings holding the shackle in place mean that there's far more than shimming there for an easy opening.

Besides, a real shim is made from good steel, and is far thinner. I've used them professionally about 6 times in the literally thousands of entries I've made. Even with proper ones, you rarely find they work. These days (in the UK) even cheap padlocks won't shim. They have to be *really* cheap.

[Lftndbt]

I agree totally. ;-)

[p9inter]

freeze the lock off with liquid nitrogen

[Lftndbt]

While you at it why not just break out a stick of dynamite.?

[MisterHankie]

or use a pipe bomb filled with matches, gunpowder, or flash powder

[Punkguyta]

Matches in a pipe bomb would be useless.

[Lftndbt]

Yes, that would also work fine.

[Coffee bean]

dont forget dremel to the hinges

[Tobita]

How about using the key?

[deathpanda]

you know you could just ram it with your pickup or borrow the jaws of life from a fire truck. or get a crane with a wrecking ball. or bring the lock to a nuke testing site. or find the kid with the key beat the crap out of him and take the key. any of that will get the lock open too.

[Lftndbt]

Yes, that would also work fine.

[Coffee bean]

its only a matter of time.

[Lftndbt]

Yes, if only we had all the time in the world to pick the lock. How easy life would be.

[mg0930mg]

Or kick the door in.

[the_mad_man]

who about you get a skeleton key: THE CORDLESS DRILL

[BorisTheSpider]

I don't know about acquiring liquid nitro, but I did see an 'ible a while back that told about those compressed air cans held upside-down. Liquid CO2 will spray out and freeze it. A couple taps (number dependent on force and lock being used) with a suitable smashing device (again, dependent on lock) will break it off. Obviously not what you had in mind with this 'ible though. Kudos on the innovation, by the way.

[Aklash, The hunchback]

CO2 has no liquid state, but this still might work

[Coffee bean]

i think they did that on burn notice

[BorisTheSpider]

Nice. I didn't catch that episode (as I'm not an avid TV-watcher), but that is certainly one of the more decent shows on. Nice to see hollywood writers thinking along the same lines as the community.

[Coffee bean]

I don't watch tv on tv i watch it on hulu but yep it is a good show

[Lftndbt]

Thanks for your comment. I would like to give that a go. I'll try it sometime.

[RockInBlack]

If you have a thousand dollars to spend on a container for liquid nitrogen, I don't think you'd be stealing something locked by a padlock.

[garrettmikesmith]

as long as you dont have to store the liquid nitrogen for more than a day or two, it is safe to use a household thermos. just use the real glass vacuum bottle kind.

[bcnr33skyline187]

you aren't supposed to put a lid on liquid nitrogen at all

[garrettmikesmith]

i guess you would have to make some kind of a valve or hole it the lid then.

[bcnr33skyline187]

like one that wouldn't let liquid out but it would air, like a pressure release valve

[garrettmikesmith]

yeah, like a radiator purge valve or something

[Lftndbt]

I'll bare that in mind, next time I make up a batch.. LoL

[garrettmikesmith]

haha okay

[Lftndbt]

I was being serious though. If I ever do, I will follow your advice. You sound like you know, what you are talking about.

[garrettmikesmith]

yeah the "LoL" threw me off a little.

[Lftndbt]

I was LoL about the thought, of me making some of it with your suggestion. Not your suggestion.

[garrettmikesmith]

i get it now. i love playing with liquid nitrogen, especially freezing stuff like strawberries and racquetballs, and then throwing them at the wall so they shatter like glass. but i really wanna try this: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a0c_1222057090

[RockInBlack]

If you have a thousand dollars to spend on a container for liquid nitrogen, you probably don't need to be stealing something locked by a padlock.

[chunkymuggen]

or you could use a home-made black powder "opener". i just buy the finest grained gunpowder i can find and crush it into a very fin powder. then, you just keep some in a small container (i keep mine in a small glass paint jar about an inch and a half tall) and when you want to blow the bejesus out of a lock, simply apply a nice amount of the crushed gunpowder you made to the inside of the lock cylinder and smash it down with a toothpick or something. put tape over the end of the lock so the powder wont fall out. poke a hole in it and stick in a firework fuse and light it. good bye lock *evil laughter* but it's probably a good idea to do this only if you really know what's inside the locked container and it's something you REALLY want. its pretty cool to watch though. it also works on cars, houses, and your face (hint: get behind cover once fuse is lit.) i have a remote detonater i made that i just stick to the fuse.