[635] Fortress Combination Padlock Decoded FAST and Bypassed (Model 1850D)

[@Paul.Douglas]

The more I watch your channel, the more I wonder if there's actually a lock that's worth a crap.

[@stevelovesgod]

Yeah, the one married woman use on their vagina 🙆🏽‍♂️

[@matteoraso8240]

@@stevelovesgod "As it turns out, it's actually very easy to bypass. All you need is a bit of chloroform and a rag."

[@stevelovesgod]

@@matteoraso8240 Has it worked for you before., or you assume?

[@matteoraso8240]

@@stevelovesgod I was joking dude

[@stevelovesgod]

@@matteoraso8240 So was I 😑

[@87you87tube]

I learned how to decode a combination lock back in high school. Our astronomy club had a metal cabinet and it's locked with a combination lock. When I asked the seniors about the code, they replied they never memorized it because breaching it was faster.

[@GameJacko]

🤣

[@murdercloak7578]

Was it a Masterlock?

[@davidm8371]

Wew.

[@davekimball3610]

"extraordinarily easy to decode" I think the human genome would be easy for our resident legal counsel.

[@lockpickinglawyer]

😂😂😂

[@torchofkck4989]

LockPickingLawyer , I'd like to PM you about [636], can NOT PM on KZbin. are you 'HT4' ?

[@lockpickinglawyer]

Torch, email my channel name at gmail. 👍

[@_Circus_Clapped_]

@@lockpickinglawyer I got a funny story for you: >I was in high school a couple of years ago >I get off from my school mandated excercise >I notice a kid locked out of his locker and forgot his combination, so me and a couple of other kids managed to kick the lockoff, only problem was that it got stuck halfway and needed a hammer--- so I'm trying to figure it out, some kid jumps from a bench almost hits the ceiling and lands on the lock breaking it completely and denting the locker as well

[@yowennalcachupas9559]

@@_Circus_Clapped_ now that's how you break a lock!

[@lightningkiki6090]

novice picker: "How do I open this?" *turns over padlock* "oh look the combination is on the back"

[@WFanatic502]

I actually own this exact lock. There is no real way to pull off that sticker. And no way to conceal that number. I scribbled all over the back of mine with a sharpie just to not give away the combination.

[@dingdong952]

@@WFanatic502 there is. It's called heat.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

... Who designed this thing!?

[@chantaimartinez6647]

I had the code on a sticky note on my cabinet years ago. I moved twice since forgetting about the lock and code . I took a sharpie to the back of the lock trying to cover it up. Thanks to this video I was able to say hey, I remember the code once I figured out the number sequence

[@chantaimartinez6647]

@@WFanatic502 I did the exact same thing also same fortress lock

[@CruzurC]

Not gonna lie I remember going around in highschool breaking these locks just by pulling really hard

[@jacobr05]

My friend shoved me into a locker and the shackle just fell off lmao

[@gabrielghanem8253]

@@jacobr05 "Friend" 😂

[@c9x493]

I remember yeeting these on the floor and having them just shatter

[@ravensnflies8167]

a drumstick from a band member of the school works too.

[@peter4210]

A guy just give them a down kick and they would snap and did half a row of lockers before a hall monitor stopped him, but they are flame resistant, A friend flame throwered mine with a axe can. still smells like axe to this day

[@drmosfet]

Security devices like this one often come down to a puzzle that must be solved quickly and correctly to keep bystander from getting suspicious.

[@2beJT]

lol.. bystanders don't care

[@WilliamMancel]

WOW. They would probably be better off selling a short length of Kevlar Paracord, and instructions on how to tie a really good knot.😂 Thanks for sharing.

[@GaryLiseo]

I remember trying to decide these back when I was in middle-school. When I was a teacher I was commonly surprised at how much trouble students had unlocking these. Many kids didn’t realize the tolerance and thought it had to be exact

[@bossboomer6690]

There is me forgetting my school locker combination and taking a few hours learning how to open it and you're sitting here opening it in a second without knowing the combo

[@Jay-jm2he]

My lock would constantly break and stay stuck and I’d have to get someone from the office to open it. They were ALWAYS were mad needing to open them too. I really wish I saw this video before corona

[@Sophia-we6yh]

When i forget my combo i just pull really hard on the lock and it comes off.

[@philsangster677]

You just gave me an idea that I can use to make a lot of money... I'm gonna enrol in law school!

[@bodacious44]

You should also consider 1st grade english

[@burtosis]

I got locked out of my apartment and had to enroll in law school to get back in.

[@nwicconsultants6640]

actually the spelling of enrol is perfectly acceptable and more commonly used outside of North America

[@lifeontheledgerlines8394]

@@bodacious44 Actually, apparently enrol is a legitimate spelling of enroll in places outside of America. I didn't know either up until now.

[@charissaschoon9206]

@@bodacious44 "I need to feel better about myself, so I'm going to make fun of this person who made a minor spelling error which has no negative effect on other people's understanding of what he said at all" ... Why are you like this?

[@srr9281]

I wish I could give more than one thumbs up. He is such a great teacher and makes us all more security conscious.

[@DanRichter]

I’m learning a lot about locks from this channel. An annoying coworker left her phone in her locker with the alarm going off and had one of these locks. Although I tried these methods, I failed. Plan B was to just pull hard on the lock, and it opened lol. Before I came across this channel, I thought locks pretty much meant “no entry, unless you have a lock cutter” lol

[@ThatOneFriendlyDude]

Interestingly enough, I actually bought a clone of one of these as a lock for my school locker back in the beginning of my first year of high school. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately?) the school has its own locks which we had to buy, so I had to leave it at home, and upon discovering this video went to do exactly this on it: aside from the first gate’s click being remarkably faint, everything worked as shown. Also unfortunately, the school locks are clearly Master combo-lock clones... make of that what you will.

[@expression3639]

I remember how my entire high school was using these Dudley combination padlocks and how I could use the same rough movements I did on mine to open 2 of my friends' padlock. Somewhere between 7 and 8 o'clock, somewhere between 10 and 11 o'clock and somewhere between 1 and 2 o'clock.

[@ScTiger1311]

I literally had one of these right next to me that I use for the gym and I just used this method and it worked. Nice.

[@replica9000]

Fortress is the ugly friend Masterlock keeps around to look good by comparison.

[@pandoratheclay]

Impossible

[@TimeYT]

Padlock: I'm Impenetrable Me: *gets out a padlock shim* Padlock: *scared padlock noises*

[@bethlaska7829]

Thank you for this video! I have an old combo lock (not sure if it's fortress, logo on dial is a house with a hand in the middle) that I've been trying to get open for the last few days. Every tutorial I've seen was for Master locks and none of them worked. Your method worked on the first try!

[@chantaimartinez6647]

Thank you!!! Had the lock since 2010 I believe and hadn’t used it in at least 7 years. Sitting around in my drawer and got bored so decided to figure out the combo. I was able to unlock the lock thanks to your video!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@jpmiller7922]

I would like to show my appreciation to the LPL. While I failed to easily open my combination lock in the manner shown I was able to fashion a shim out of the plastic from a toothbrush blister pack purchased yesterday. I now feel confident that I can master most locks with trash.

[@SamuelHollandsh]

Thanks since watching your channel, I didn't realize how flimsy these type of locks were. Thanks I'm now on the hunt for a decent lock. 👍

[@five1002]

OMG, this is the piece of info I needed! My numbers were in a range, but once I knew what order the ranges had to be in, I could brute force to the actual code in about 15 mns

[@jazbell7]

When I was in High School (early 50s) we had locks like that on lockers, except that they were brass. I could open most of them that way. I called them "click-clank-clunk" locks. Not very secure.

[@ConstantlyDamaged]

Same (although mine was in the 90s). We were suggested to get either a key lock, or one of these. Instead, I went out and got a Lockwood barrel combination lock. There was no feedback (or so as I could notice) from tensioning the shackle.

[@leebest1a470]

JAMES AZBELL Had a new pair of Converse Chuck Taylors taken from my locker, combo lock, from H.S. in the mid-60’s.

[@jfloresmac]

Aha! So it was YOU!

[@babyjamesbond2387]

JAMES AZBELL yeah my school has the same locks

[@deusexmachina5769]

We have them too (2019)

[@danielroglich3309]

Never ceases to amaze me how easy you always make this look. Just the research alone you put into the locks you feature in your videos would make most people's head burst lol never mind putting that research into practical application. Great job as always on the review brother. Thanks again.

[@lorip4087]

I can't believe how well this worked! It took me several turns but I popped an old one I found in the drawer! Many thanks!

[@davidwpinkston4226]

the shim was my lol for the day

[@eknaap8800]

Not using capitals and proper punctuation, was my lol...

[@FleaOnMyWiener]

@@eknaap8800 that, comma, was, unnecessary

[@eknaap8800]

@@FleaOnMyWiener : Perhaps it was...

[@FleaOnMyWiener]

@@eknaap8800 perhaps not

[@hotrodhog2170]

@@eknaap8800 Definitely was NOT.

[@ModelA]

Those are the locks we used on our high school lockers in the 80's! If I had only known...

[@scottoranje5675]

i wanted to say thank you for your tension video your use of the top of the key way and the advise of using the heavest tension possible is spot on also using a stiff tension wrench makes all the difference thank you your the best

[@gillig35]

Thank you for making this video. I was going to trash an old combination padlock I found in my attic but by using your technique I deciphered the code after a few tries!

[@SpiffEatWorld]

And after viewing this video, you deciphered the combination ... and STILL trashed it, right? :)

[@flowerpt]

@@SpiffEatWorld It works fine to keep toddlers out of crates.

[@canopener1529]

Thank you for making these videos a student locked me out of my locker so i picked the lock and gave it to the princible and now that student is suspended and i have a new lock

[@macnutz4206]

In the late fifties and sixties, in high school and what then was called junior high, we used the Master lock version of that combination lock, that had all of the same weaknesses. I never left anything of personal significance in a school locker.

[@Colt45hatchback]

Early 2000's we still had the master lock combination locks.. I used to annoy my friends by taking their locks off and putting them back on backwards so they had to do it upside down haha

[@thomasnesmith5426]

You successfully taught me how to open my crappy Selectum combo lock I forgot the code to. I didn't get the clicks in order, but it was enough to remind me what combo was in the first place. Thank you very much.

[@FlyleaForever92]

My dad always said "locks keep an honest man honest.". Coincidentally, he was a thief.

[@anekroth]

Oh, I actually have one of these pieces of junk lol. I knew it was a cheap piece of crap when I bought it though. My intention was to work out how to decode it and then take it apart. Thanks LPL, you just expedited the process for me :D

[@jasonjones5707]

I Actually Asked For This A Couple A Of Videos While Back & Then I Found It... Thanks, You Made It Possible For Me To Be Able To Get In To The Wife's Hope Chest By Popping Her Combination Lock & Take Back Some Of My Things She Says She Doesn't Have In It With Out Applying Force Or Causing Any Damage... You Truly Are The Bruce Lee Of Opening Locks, Much Respects To Ya 👍

[@MrSonny6155]

I actually found this exploit a few years ago when I found an old lock I had no combination to. It turned out that I could open it with just my fingers and a blindfold. I didn't realize that this applied to other non-Fortress locks too!

[@spedmonie416]

My school locks were like this too you didn’t have to land on the exact number also near the number the turning gets a little “heavier” it’s an odd feeling but best I could describe it

[@Levelworm]

I'm not going to even use this one for my locker in gym...sometimes I have my company's laptop in it, too risky! Thank you!

[@ManiacalMichael504]

Those locks have been made for a while. I found one of those back in 97, I think I stil have it, but it is unbranded.

[@NoName-ik2du]

I found a Master Lock combination lock in a box with no code a few months ago. It has a decently different housing than this lock, but I was able to decode it with a nearly identical (if not exactly the same) process. Can't say I'll ever use it for anything, but hey, free lock. Now if only I knew how to do this with the combination lock safe in my closet that I forgot the combination to...

[@Potti314]

Very intersting how poorly made this lock is. For the average user it might be an advantage if less precision is required to dial the code. Would love to see this lock taken apart.

[@DonzLockz]

Potti314 yes but there wouldn't be much inside.... sort of like Master's R&D team!🤣👍🏽

[@lockpickinglawyer]

I developed it by watching the mechanism through shackle hole while tensioning the locking lug... I then tested/refined it on 3 other locks. 👍

[@WyvernDotRed]

I rember a detailed video showing the production process of these on a site called schooltvbeeldbank.nl Nowadays they moved to schooltv.nl You might find the video while searching for slot, but the results are polluted with videos about the other meaning of slot.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

They show these kinds of locks being made on an episode of How It's Made. It's stunningly simple inside.

[@degacci]

I’ve been watching your videos and now feel all locks are pointless. Thanks a lot guy!

[@stealth_9302]

thank you very much. This video helped me get into an old combination lock similar to this one that I had lost the code for. However, after learning this I am not going to be putting anything important behind a door using it.

[@mCblue79]

We used these locks on our lockers in high school. I remember, if you hit the dial hard enough, they'd pop open. That was mid '90's anyhow. Actually, they were the 'Master' brand of this exact same lock come to think of it.

[@masa-qi8cx]

I watched most of your videos and all I can say thank you for the knowledge my when my co workers learnt I can pick basic locks they have 2nd doubts about me now.

[@forric23]

Thanks for this. Been trying the master decoding technique with no joy. Will give this a go

[@drewvfox]

Lol used to do this at my old job every once in a while when a co-worker forgot their combination.

[@BansheeResearch]

Makes a damn master combination lock look like an abloy

[@dnixon1974dn]

wow school had this lock on the lockers years back.. if only i had this knowledge then..hahaha.. great vid.

[@eknaap8800]

What is a "wow school"?

[@wornoutshoes81]

And just like that, my high school experiences were explained.

[@Deflection]

id like to buy you a drink sir!!! you make these look too easy

[@linus607]

They have these on the lockers at my work. It's not really the lock that protects your stuff... It's fear of getting caught (there are lots of cameras). If you're caught, you're fired and you get the cops called on you lol

[@benzracer]

I think we had these on our lockers in middle and high school. Can confirm a young person can figure this decoding out before KZbin was a thing lol

[@jaymassengill3340]

I have a combination lock that has the described physical styling, but it's smaller in all dimensions by about 10%. It also doesn't decode the same way. It's from Harbor Freight. Maybe they finally did something right, I can't seem to decode it and would probably use a shim. The pawl is smooth and while there isn't a ton of room around the shackle, a shim would probably fit.

[@Slevencolevra]

I love the ending. "Or just hit it with a hammer" 🔨

[@scottore1]

I'm pretty sure these are the locks they used to get us to use on our lockers at school. Time to see if I can find it again.

[@hermanwilhelm6871]

Wish I'd seen these videos when I was custodian in my school. Every day we had to cut these locks off.

[@miro-hristov]

These locks must have been improved since then. There's nothing about my lock that gives away the first digit. I go right past it without any sign that it's the correct one. No click, no residence, no nothing. If i pull harder on the shackle the knob becomes completely free of any residence almost as if it's broken. Got it from a local CVS for $6. I'd love to send it you you if you'd like to give it a try.

[@mrickerd]

I am having the exact same issue. I bought three of them from Wal-Mart this morning (1-25-2021) and none of them behave like in this video. The combo on the back opens the lock right up, but following @LockPickingLawyer instructions to a T I get no feedback from the first digit. If I put in the first digit to attempt to find the second digit it doesn't respond according to the video either. I wonder if they updated these.

[@joshopp1827]

Love decoding combo locks! Thanks for the new tool and my tool box!

[@tuan-vu...YouTube]

The order of the number is significant to open the lock. Therefore the correct naming description for the lock should be 'permutation' lock

[@canadianstupidgirl2373]

You aren’t wrong, though one could argue that, in this context, a permutation is a type of combination and therefore a combination lock is technically a permutation lock.

[@JeffroDH]

LPL, did you develop this decoding attack based on a disassembly of this particular lock, or did you use a generalization of the mechanism of these types of combination locks to try a "naive" attack based on common vulnerabilities? Appreciate your skills and your willingness to share.

[@Potti314]

The exact same question came into my mind.

[@lockpickinglawyer]

I watched the mechanism through the shackle hole. No need to disassemble.

[@siyacer]

@@lockpickinglawyer could you make a tutorial on lock picking in general?

[@stefstaf]

More combination locks please. I have a YALE V705 padlock back from my college days, which (guess what) have forgotten the code. Is not attached to anything (other than my memories) so I would like to retrieve the combination without braking it.

[@DonzLockz]

I would use it to lock my dirty laundry basket.😁 Geez, I must get some combo's in to crack now.🍺😎

[@markuskahelin9090]

Thanks for the vid! This method worked on my Master lock that I was not able to decode with any of the videos I found online. Also shimming it did not work. But I must say it was not easy, my lock has so many clicks when trying to find the first digit, almost 1/4 of a turn with random rattle, feels like the wheels are offset, maybe bad manufacturing.

[@ganjaman407]

We had these locks in middle school. There were kids raiding lockers left and right 🤣

[@Spongeboobie]

Back in the 70s there was fire in a school that destroyed a lot of the office where they kept files and such. There was a stack of binders that was destroyed that contained the combination for every locker in the school (850). This was in the summer and they had no way to know any of the combos to give out to the next wave of students but instead of just cutting them all off and replacing them, they paid a homeless man 400$ to decode them all and write it down. Took 2 days. (Source: I made it up)

[@canadianstupidgirl2373]

Nice profile picture

[@rootbeer666]

I find it funny that at my school the custodian would take a grinder to locks left behind to remove them, or if a kid forgot their combination. I suppose they won't want everyone knowing that these locks open with a strip of a soda can sold in the cafeteria vending machine...

[@MrEditor6000]

"This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and we're about to show you how to decode the human genome in just 57 seconds" "And we got this one open!"

[@CallieMasters5000]

These videos really make me want to be a criminal. I'm concerned but fascinated.

[@Mark_1988_]

this lock brings me back to high school

[@nitsanbh]

I wish I could send this video to 14 years old. It could’ve been be pretty cool to know how to that in school

[@michaellinner7772]

As far as shimming goes, it would be harder if the manufacturer had better quality controls and much tighter tolerances. This cheap piece of crap doesn't have anyone in charge of quality control so I'm sure it could equally be easily opened with a light tap from a hammer or even a moderate jerk on the body. It's always a pleasure watching the LPL though. I wrote this before seeing most of the video so the hammer tap was also mentioned by the LPL of course. The Keystone shape and the white circle? He's talking about you Masterlock!

[@averat84]

I knew how to open these type of locks in 7th grade. That's what our school gave us for our gym lockers.

[@KewneRain]

We had these in high school, if you smacked the top of the dial sharply with your heel, the lock popped open.

[@jimmymifsud1]

We had these Fortress locks at my highschool, I worked out how to decode these by mistake by playing around with mine, I use to be able to open other mates lockers in a few seconds for the lols... Gave me some pretty good school cred

[@AlkalineBatterien]

Well, good thing I bought my Abus lock before watching this video just to learn that pretty much anyone could potentially break into my locker and wear my pants!

[@patrickdebellefeuille4196]

*Some locks look very hard to open, HOWEVER!!!* 😂

[@happyflowytb2832]

"this is the LPL and what i have to you today, are the locks at fort knox"

[@PlanetXtreme]

Now I can open every single lock at my gym

[@khanricksteele]

You make it look so easy. I have one of these and lost the combo years ago, can't do it.

[@chamberashes3128]

Do you have any advice on decoding Master lock combination locks? Thank you in advance

[@EphemeralProductions]

From what I know of it, the process is pretty much the same.

[@nelsblair2667]

Master lock, way harder but the shim or kick is the same.

[@b-conn6624]

Glad I'm learning this at 27 and not 17...😂

[@brotherchrisrco1125]

If I remember correctly, we used to do this in the 80s with our gym lock...

[@trisar2146]

I've been on a binge of this channel lately and still consider myself a scrub on locksport of all varieties. Are the stops with loose wiggling on the second digit indicative of false gates or just more of the really shoddy construction and poor tolerances of the lock itself?

[@needlesareinwhitevans7518]

Thanks now I can break into my friends locker at school

[@TheGreatest1974]

Brilliant. It’s a shame these locks aren’t made a lot better quality wise. Is there a reason why these dial combo locks haven’t been made much better? Because a lock with a dial just looks so cool. ?

[@good.citizen]

3:12 thank you. 👍 the trick part must be knowing the first number turn it the wrong way

[@aliensaxophone]

!! this was one of the first locks i needed to pick for one of the digits.. We had these locks on our high-school lockers and happy we didnt know about shims! and just had new locks (few days use and then 2 months Large summer holiday..)

[@markbenoit]

My wife had one of this and forgot the code, I remember watching this vid. Wow what a piece of crap lol that was fun 👍

[@feedmyintellect]

Would you open this lock with the "Boink" method? You know, when you hit the body of a lock with a small hammer and it pops open. I LOVE it when you do that! 😁😁😁

[@radicalgames480]

I was giving other lock Smith's on youtube a chance to redeem themselves tbh I should of watched you first xD

[@JoeJ-8282]

Yeah, IDK about this... I actually have one of these EXACT same brand locks which I don't know the combination to, and I tried this method exactly, step by step, numerous times and I still can't get it open!... I know I could break into it with a good hammer hit in the right spot, but I was *hoping* that I could actually get it open by figuring out the combo so I could use it on my toolbox or somewhere like that... but so far to no avail! :(

[@mandy8211]

Most padlocks can be opened with a 5 pound hammer blow to the case at the top in the middle of both shackle legs. Wham, Bam! And most of the parts fall out including releasing the shackle.

[@blazingfire7517]

My school band has us buy our own locks for our band lockers and almost everyone uses these types of locks. I’m going to go practice on peoples lockers. Most people keep them unlocked anyways.

[@calebjaymes9710]

Blazing fire, steal their instruments and pawn them for cocaine

[@shadowraven137]

So, I found a lock my high school gave me back in the day, was able to decode it with this vid, was a rebranded master lock if you can believe it.

[@DP-hy4vh]

Are you going to make a video decoding American brand combination locks, especially the ones made before Master Lock bought them in 2003? If I happen to find any at second hand stores or buy them off of eBay, I'd like to be able to recover the combination.

[@Will10885]

thank's for teaching me how to remember my combo! XD this helped allot

[@Jgeraus]

should do a physical pen test series where you apply your vast knowledge of lock vulnerabilities to gain (legal) access to actual locations

[@wpridgen4853]

I saw one of those at Walmart gave it a try and popped it open, not to disappointing for a buck fifty, but I laughed a little when I saw the five dollar version that was painted blue and said brinks on it

[@RichardBronosky]

I watched this video to see where the latch was. 3:09 there it is. Then I shimmed my lock with a strip of soda can metal.

[@thomasdickson35]

I forgot the combination to my locker in school and carried a bobby pin for six years to just rake it open. This method is great for gym lockers and I was able to get a girlfriend out of that process. 🎉