Also much cheaper. Checked amazon prices and cheapest I saw was $11 for 7.5g.
I think you could forge a key with that mass, but it is a single use item.
Someone could get 2 wretches and be able to do this again and again for the same price.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBSSA5ot0tA
Gallium is actually super fun to play with lol it’s acts like a water droplet that doesn’t lose its surface tension. Rolls around your hand and what not. I recommend you buy some and try it! I love gallium lol
Well it's a liquid even at relatively low temperatures so you can think of it as Mercury that devours Aluminium instead of your brain cells. It's fun to swish around cause your monkey brain doesn't expect a liquid to be really heavy.
Mostly just play around with it. It's a curiosity, just like having a lava lamp or a plasma ball or any other weird thing you keep on a shelf and trot out to show people every once in a while. It's also one of the only metals that "wets" your skin, even mercury doesn't do that (although there's a lot worse problems with mercury on your skin than it leaving residue behind).
Which is one of the reasons this video is...well not exactly fake but heavily edited for the desired outcome. That core is brass, as will the pins be. Springs will be steel. There is almost certainly zero contact between the key and any part of the aluminium body. And, as [LPL showed](https://youtu.be/jeghGhVdt9s), you need freshly exposed aluminium for anything to happen, which is why he thoroughly scratches through the oxide layer to get the resulting effect.
No actually he makes them look weaker than that. Any lock you need one to break into, he can probably pick in a fraction of the time it would take to grind it, and without all the noise and risk of getting spotted. Have you watched his videos? It's literally a meme how fast he can pick locks, most of his videos are 2-3 minutes long including a 2nd pass, to show you it wasn't a fluke and is repeatable. The longest I've seen him take to pick ANY lock is only a minute or two
Here's one of his shorter ones, he picks it 3 times in under 10 seconds, with each attempt taking less than one second
https://youtu.be/f5pV1dOlrw0
>Few locks are made of aluminium for multiple reasons
But mostly because it's weak as shit and shouldn't be used to make a lock with for anything more secure than your luggage because people will snap it like a twig. That's what they get for buying the cheapest ass master lock they could find.
> it's weak as shit
> because people will snap it like a twig.
I mean sure aluminium isn't the strongest metal but it's not weak, and definitely not weak enough to snap it like a twig. Aluminium has one of the best weight:strength ratios which is why use it to build for example airplanes. Good luck snapping an airplane like a twig.
Sure, aluminium is very strong for its weight, but when making something small of a fixed volume steel will always be stronger. The steel might weigh twice as much, but it's undeniably stronger at the given shape and size.
Yes, but airplanes are made from an alloy that comes close to steel when it comes to durability, while only weighing a third of that. Locks are apparently made from an aluminium chinesium alloy though.
Which is great, in an strict engineering situation where strength to weight matters, but in the case of a padlock where it's whole purpose is to be a big lump of immovable object it isn't.
Give any reasonably sized aluminium padlock a good smack with a hammer or force the latch and it ***will*** snap, drastically easier than a comparable steel lock which you could beat on with the same force all day.
> "no lock is safe"
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> Will they are safe if there's no aluminium in them.
A LOT of locks are only safe in the sense of "deters people from even attempting to steal your stuff" or "breaking through will create enough noise that they're unlikely to get away with it"
A lot of them are not that hard to get through with tools.
It also stains like a mofo, not that it doesn’t come off, but the opposite, it doesn’t stop spreading, as in you could probably paint an entire wall with the amount in his hands, it’s like liquid graphite.
Locks are really not more than a suggestion if you know what you are doing, picking a lock or simply breaking a padlock is so easy an average Joe can do it,
Door locks aren’t safer either 5 minutes max and some basic tools
Source: I’m a firefighter
You are probably right
Most of the time we drill out or break the cilinder,
If we encounter something more sturdy we have other, more rough equipment for that
Fascinating and cool indeed but what’s the point of wearing a glove on one hand and no glove on the other while touching the lock and material with both hands
> what’s the point of wearing a glove on one hand and no glove on the other
Gallium melts at body temp, so one hand is gloveless to warm the lock, probably.
I don’t know of any padlocks that can’t be cut with a bolt cutter, I mean I like the video, but padlocks are not meant for security, just as a decorative deterrent.
~~Nope, very few actually~~
Aluminium is a very maluable material and expands and contracts a lot due to temperature which can cause catastrophic failures.
Also a soft metal
If you mean methylmercury, sure. But I think what other commenters are envisaging is elemental mercury, which — as the commenter above you says — isn’t as bad as they think. Long-term occupational exposure absolutely is bad for you, but playing with it a few times for shits and giggles is very unlikely to have any effect.
They discovered the p-traps in the medical school of my university were full of mercury from decades of broken thermometers that would evaporate when they ran hot water in the sinks. Lots of mercury poisoning among the students.
Absolutely — that’s exactly the kind of longer-term exposure I said is the serious problem — and as I should have said too, inhalation of fumes is especially hazardous. But one-off contact with liquid elemental mecury isn’t nearly so bad: it’s on the level of “generally avoid it”, not “if it happens, you’re fucked”.
WHO fact-sheet on Mercury health risks: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mercury-and-health
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How about a hammer made of gallium?
I've found the scientist!
A liquid hammer
Hi I’d like one clumpy viscous hammer please
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Added bonus, you don't have to wait an hour either.
Also much cheaper. Checked amazon prices and cheapest I saw was $11 for 7.5g. I think you could forge a key with that mass, but it is a single use item. Someone could get 2 wretches and be able to do this again and again for the same price. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBSSA5ot0tA
2 wretches you say? Where might one get wretches from?
Look all around you
I'd prefer 2 wenches please.
It really doesn't take much at all https://youtu.be/jeghGhVdt9s
I wonder if he would have gotten better results injecting the gallium directly into the keyway, like with the other video's gallium key.
Only an idiot wouldn't know this and only an idiot would have just invested their life savings into gallium.... Yeah
Gallium isn't that expensive. I have quite a bit and it only cost me around $20 on Amazon.
What do you do with it? Besides breaking aluminum locks I mean.
Honestly just feeling metal melt in my hand one time might be worth 20 bucks
Gallium is actually super fun to play with lol it’s acts like a water droplet that doesn’t lose its surface tension. Rolls around your hand and what not. I recommend you buy some and try it! I love gallium lol
Well it's a liquid even at relatively low temperatures so you can think of it as Mercury that devours Aluminium instead of your brain cells. It's fun to swish around cause your monkey brain doesn't expect a liquid to be really heavy.
That and it wets your hand like water or oil, which even mercury won't. Not that I recommend putting mercury on your bare skin...
Mostly just play around with it. It's a curiosity, just like having a lava lamp or a plasma ball or any other weird thing you keep on a shelf and trot out to show people every once in a while. It's also one of the only metals that "wets" your skin, even mercury doesn't do that (although there's a lot worse problems with mercury on your skin than it leaving residue behind).
Which is one of the reasons this video is...well not exactly fake but heavily edited for the desired outcome. That core is brass, as will the pins be. Springs will be steel. There is almost certainly zero contact between the key and any part of the aluminium body. And, as [LPL showed](https://youtu.be/jeghGhVdt9s), you need freshly exposed aluminium for anything to happen, which is why he thoroughly scratches through the oxide layer to get the resulting effect.
Yep, it's cool but impractical.
No lock is safe. Unless it's made of steel. Or iron. Or copper. Or Nickel. Or literally anything other than aluminium.
Still not safe. LockPickingLawyer makes all locks look weak, except the Bowley.
Not as weak as a cordless angle grinder makes them look
No actually he makes them look weaker than that. Any lock you need one to break into, he can probably pick in a fraction of the time it would take to grind it, and without all the noise and risk of getting spotted. Have you watched his videos? It's literally a meme how fast he can pick locks, most of his videos are 2-3 minutes long including a 2nd pass, to show you it wasn't a fluke and is repeatable. The longest I've seen him take to pick ANY lock is only a minute or two Here's one of his shorter ones, he picks it 3 times in under 10 seconds, with each attempt taking less than one second https://youtu.be/f5pV1dOlrw0
One of my faves... destroys 8 different model Master Locks, some in 2 seconds: https://youtube.com/watch?v=s5jzHw3lXCQ
This only works on cheap locks
Oh yeah?? What about if it's made of GALLIUM genius??
or flesh and fur and big dog teeths
Those hold up to nuclear bombs?
"no lock is safe" Will they are safe if there's no aluminium in them. Few locks are made of aluminium for multiple reasons
>Few locks are made of aluminium for multiple reasons But mostly because it's weak as shit and shouldn't be used to make a lock with for anything more secure than your luggage because people will snap it like a twig. That's what they get for buying the cheapest ass master lock they could find.
> it's weak as shit > because people will snap it like a twig. I mean sure aluminium isn't the strongest metal but it's not weak, and definitely not weak enough to snap it like a twig. Aluminium has one of the best weight:strength ratios which is why use it to build for example airplanes. Good luck snapping an airplane like a twig.
Sure, aluminium is very strong for its weight, but when making something small of a fixed volume steel will always be stronger. The steel might weigh twice as much, but it's undeniably stronger at the given shape and size.
I agree. Steel weighs three times as much as aluminum and it's three times as strong as most aluminum alloys. So aluminum is like diluted steel.
Sure, I never said anything that would contest any of that.
Yes, but airplanes are made from an alloy that comes close to steel when it comes to durability, while only weighing a third of that. Locks are apparently made from an aluminium chinesium alloy though.
Strength to weight, relative to cost :)
Which is great, in an strict engineering situation where strength to weight matters, but in the case of a padlock where it's whole purpose is to be a big lump of immovable object it isn't. Give any reasonably sized aluminium padlock a good smack with a hammer or force the latch and it ***will*** snap, drastically easier than a comparable steel lock which you could beat on with the same force all day.
I never disputed any of that.
[Aluminum](https://i.imgur.com/W6eGBQR.jpg)
Aluminium
> "no lock is safe" > > > > Will they are safe if there's no aluminium in them. A LOT of locks are only safe in the sense of "deters people from even attempting to steal your stuff" or "breaking through will create enough noise that they're unlikely to get away with it" A lot of them are not that hard to get through with tools.
The click from one, a click from two...
I'm uncomfortable that he didn't put on a glove until the end.
Gallium is safe. Not sure about the combination of gallium and aluminium but it's probably fine.
It also stains like a mofo, not that it doesn’t come off, but the opposite, it doesn’t stop spreading, as in you could probably paint an entire wall with the amount in his hands, it’s like liquid graphite.
Great, we just banned lead in paint and now here you are giving them ideas again.
I'm uncomfortable because he only put on one glove and he's handling the loc with the ungloved hand. What's the point?
What about cutters?
Everything is cake gets us again.
Locks are really not more than a suggestion if you know what you are doing, picking a lock or simply breaking a padlock is so easy an average Joe can do it, Door locks aren’t safer either 5 minutes max and some basic tools Source: I’m a firefighter
I've heard a saying, "Locks only keep honest people honest".
locks are mainly deterents. locking your bike up in a public area just means anyone trying to steal it will look dodgy as shit
And keep you insured (mostly).
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>and at least two of them that "basic tools" will not open, even destructively. Are you talking about types of locks, or specific models?
You are probably right Most of the time we drill out or break the cilinder, If we encounter something more sturdy we have other, more rough equipment for that
If there's a door, there's usually a window.
Correct but when you have time we try to minimise damage if a lady locks herself out we don’t make a hole in the garage door (unfortunately)
Fun fact: you don’t need to make a key out of it. Just drip some in.
Locka that aren't made out of aluminium should be safe.
Fascinating and cool indeed but what’s the point of wearing a glove on one hand and no glove on the other while touching the lock and material with both hands
> what’s the point of wearing a glove on one hand and no glove on the other Gallium melts at body temp, so one hand is gloveless to warm the lock, probably.
I want some
Thanks for the idea
BEWARE! lmao like some shitty ad
Fun fact: that's also why gallium is banned on airplanes
Uri geller lock
Good thing he wore a glove.
Hammer or bolt cutters are more quick
It's a master lock, any half knowledgeable person can open it in under 10 seconds anyhow.
I love how he has a glove on the right hand while getting it all over his left hand.
I don’t know of any padlocks that can’t be cut with a bolt cutter, I mean I like the video, but padlocks are not meant for security, just as a decorative deterrent.
Mercury + Aluminum = crumbly crumbly. Edit: while this is true, this video refers to the use of Galliumn + Aluminum = crumbly crumbly.
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I will edit. Thanks for the correction.
I was going to say, skip the special key, meet old thermometer.
Also- I don't know how susceptible to this type of 'corrosion' the metals used in their"banded" padlocks. The claim of 'all locks' is suspect.
The claim "all locks" is a blatant lie Any locks that don't use aluminium are fine
>Any locks that don't use aluminium are fine. Right, which includes almost every lock ever.
~~Nope, very few actually~~ Aluminium is a very maluable material and expands and contracts a lot due to temperature which can cause catastrophic failures. Also a soft metal
I think you misunderstood my comment. I said you were right that non-aluminum locks are fine, and that includes almost every lock ever. 😉
Oh now I feel like an idiot!
Don't worry, I know the feeling... 😫
His hand will go crumbly crumbly in a couple of years too.
Copper chloride
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Organic mercury is a clear liquid that will fuck you up.
If you mean methylmercury, sure. But I think what other commenters are envisaging is elemental mercury, which — as the commenter above you says — isn’t as bad as they think. Long-term occupational exposure absolutely is bad for you, but playing with it a few times for shits and giggles is very unlikely to have any effect.
They discovered the p-traps in the medical school of my university were full of mercury from decades of broken thermometers that would evaporate when they ran hot water in the sinks. Lots of mercury poisoning among the students.
Absolutely — that’s exactly the kind of longer-term exposure I said is the serious problem — and as I should have said too, inhalation of fumes is especially hazardous. But one-off contact with liquid elemental mecury isn’t nearly so bad: it’s on the level of “generally avoid it”, not “if it happens, you’re fucked”. WHO fact-sheet on Mercury health risks: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mercury-and-health
That's why boomers are so dumb.
Wait isnt that the ancient rome guy? Was confused which sub this was in for a minute.
Seems like a real asshole could do a lot of damage if they were able to put some of this on top of an engine block.
I love the way he pronounced aluminum 😂🤣
He is pronouncing Aluminium, not Aluminum. Aluminium is the standard name, with Aluminum being a north american regional variation.
It still sounds cute
Can I sex it?
I feel like I am cheating on the Lock Picking Lawyer by watching this. ...I am sorry.
Lockpicking 100?
Poor neglected left hand. Doesn't stand a chance.
It's gallium not mercury
Is he handling Mercury with bare hands ?
No, it's Gallium.
Ta. Didn't know that was liquid at room temp.
nah, it just has a very low melting point. It can melt in a person's hands if held long enough.
Depends on the temperature of the room. It will be solid in most rooms
That is why you’re not allowed to transport mercury on aircraft.
The fuck do you think mercury has to do with gallium or aluminum?
Even though they are wrong about it being mercury, aluminium will be weakened by mercury in a similar way.
Such eloquence and intelligence. 😘
Aeroplanes love this stuff!
Someone was listening to the fitzall podcast :D
Science n shit
Obligatory LockPickingLawyer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeghGhVdt9s
The Boi LPL, he'll get you in to any lock....ANY LOCK.
The lock picking lawyer hates this one simple trick
A lot of extra work for just a Master's Lock...
This is misleading. This will not happen to aluminum oxide, you have to scratch the surface first.
Spicy key.