How to Freeze a Lock Off!

Intro: How to Freeze a Lock Off!

***Disclaimer*** The following is for informational purposes only, i take no responsibility for what you do with this knowledge. i can not be held responsible for any property or medical damages caused by using this technique.
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Freeze a lock off with compressed air cans used for computer dusting. Watch the lock crack in half.
Watch the video for an overview.

STEP 1: Supplies

the supplies you'll need

- 1 standard padlock

-2 cans of compressed air
the kind used to blow the dust out of you computer

-1 hammer

STEP 2: Attach You Lock to a Secure Latch

Insure that your lock is attached to a secure latch as we'll be striking it with a hammer.

STEP 3: Spray the Lock With the Compressed Air

First, turn the air canister upside down and begin to spray the lock. By turning it upside down you're actually spraying 1,1,1-Trifluoroethane which cools the metal lock to -67 degrees fahrenheit! Frost will immediately begin to from on and around the lock.

STEP 4: Strike the Lock With a Hammer

When the compressed air cans are empty, very carefully and very forcefully strike the lock with a hammer. The lock should either shatter off the post completely , or fracture around the post!

Congratulations! You've smashed off a frozen lock!

Comments

[boyeralan9]

Can a can of compressed air break or open a door lock? And if so then how

[Kiteman]

The bpt for 1,1,1,TCE is -47C, not -67C, and that temperature wouldn't be maintained for more than a few moments after cooling. What temperature does steel become brittle below, anyway?

[_soapy_]

Very much depends on the steel. Cheap and crap steel, as seen in this padlock, will probably not be much below -30 C. A good Boron steel maintains strength well enough even down at -173 C, where the air itself becomes liquid. Bit pointless on a padlock this rubbish. It would be easier to shim it, or pick it. And a good whack with that hammer would have taken it off anyway!

[John Smith]

but thats not fun...well,not AS fun.

[_soapy_]

You could try chewing through the padlock, as over several months the steel would rust away. Though that's not fun either... What's my point? I don't know. But chewing through it would be less fake than this Instructable. (Is there a name for a faked Instructable? An Unstructable? CONstructable?)

[John Smith]

you should do the chewing one. include how it boosts your iron in your body, too. i think its a constructable.

[John Smith]

WAIT- if you spell constructable, you get construct-able, which isn't really what you want.

[_soapy_]

CONNEDstructable!!

[John Smith]

ROTFL!

[masterochicken]

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[masterochicken]

barb?

[_soapy_]

Short for Barbara. Or perhaps he meant the pointy bits on thorns and barbed wire. You decide.

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[Kiteman]

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[duck-lemon]

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[John Smith]

???

[masterochicken]

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