Not really, but a lot of us occasionally watch the lockpicking lawyer on youtube.
Geek!
Even geek-lites are lock geeks.
I got into locks as a landlord. Installing locks, fixing locks,
pinning them to my various master & interchangeable
core systems (Dexter, Arrow, Falcon, Best, Schlage), &
occasionally picking or drilling.
BTW, I am not a skilled picker...to me, the lockpickinglawyer
& bosnianbill are magicians. But they inform my choices for
my current security needs.
A project...
I've surveyed systems for locking trailers, & found some very
good ones, but with a hole in the market for 2 of my trailers.
So I'm designing a locking guard for the equipment trailers
that use the common C-channel coupler mounts.
It's based on the idea of removing the coupler & safety chains
(which go in the tow vehicle), thereby preventing anyone from
installing their own coupler.
Most systems use 2 guards & 2 lock to do what I achieve
with a single small guard & lock. The basic concept is all
worked out (after many versions).
There's nothing remotely like it on the market. It's smaller,
& looks at least as secure as the best now available. Most
importantly, it looks more elegant....it's very compact, &
simple. It shrouds the shackle of any padlock used, &
positions it so that picking or core pulling would be very
awkward. Grinding is the best way to defeat it, but there's
an awful lot of metal to noisily remove to get to the shackle.
Now the hard part....design, fabrication, & the inevitable
changes. (An engineer who doesn't continually change
things is an unemployed engineer.)
