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  • This is the lock picking lawyer, and today I'm going to show you a machine that many people assume is found only in movies, when in fact it's actually a relatively common tool among professional safe crackers.

  • This is the I T L 2000 automatic safe dialer.

  • These machines cost thousands of dollars.

  • So a special thanks to Michael, it's Barrows lock picks for lending it out.

  • To me, the setup is fairly simple.

  • We have a magnetic base to hold the dialer to the safe door, a chuck to hold onto the dial, a fairly large stepper motor to do the dialling.

  • And, of course, the brains of the operation are in the control box.

  • This is actually an older model.

  • I believe the newer ones operate off a Bluetooth tablet.

  • Setup is simple.

  • A skilled person could assemble this Tyler, attach it to the safe door and aligned the innards of the lock with the dialer in somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 minutes.

  • I've already skipped the boring part, so I'm just going to hit the dial button and let you see this in operation for a few minutes.

  • Okay, what?

  • Okay, let's pause that for a moment.

  • Fortunately for all of us, these machines are not nearly as fast as the movies would lead us to believe.

  • Depending on various factors, it could take a long as 30 hours, though I'm told the average time is closer to eight hours.

  • Since I'm not going to make an eight hour video, we're going to cheat a little bit.

  • I'm going to let the dialer know the 1st 2 numbers of the combination and let it figure out the third.

  • That way, you get to see an open.

  • That first number is 63.

  • The second number is 19.

  • Now I'm going to hit the dial button and let the machine figure out the third.

  • Okay, if that clunk wasn't enough of a clue, the machine is telling us dialling complete.

  • Let's check to make sure this actually opens.

  • And indeed it does.

  • If I push the combo button, the machine will tell me the combination is 63 1957 now because I don't discuss safe manipulation much, I should note that someone skilled at manipulation could open a lock like this in a fraction of the time of this Tyler.

  • It's a skill that requires some time to master.

  • And when I was first learning, I was cutting my teeth on high end SNG locks like this one in here, and that made for some frustration.

  • But it turns out that sparrows recently came out with a manipulation learning Kitt.

  • It comes with a fairly standard safe lock, and on the inside we have three extra lever arms that allow you to make it progressively harder.

  • In addition, this tool allows you to change the combination after every time you manipulate.

  • They just sent this over to me, so I haven't had a whole lot of time to play with it.

  • But I definitely think it's something I would have appreciated back when I was learning.

  • I may show it again in the future after I've spent some time with it, but that's all I have for you today.

  • If you do have any questions or comments about this, please put them below you like this video and would like to see more like it.

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This is the lock picking lawyer, and today I'm going to show you a machine that many people assume is found only in movies, when in fact it's actually a relatively common tool among professional safe crackers.

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