It's a lock designed to secure outdoor hose Bibbs from tampering or water theft.

Two things that can be serious concerns in urban environments.

Using it is very simple.

All you need to do is thread this mechanism onto the end of a hose bed, and after you have it snugged up, take the key and turn the core to the locked position, turning the court D couples the outer shell from the inner mechanism, making it spin freely.

And if it spends freely, it can't be easily unthreatened now, as a practical matter, ah, hose Bibb is a low value target, and any safeguard is likely to be enough.

Because of that, I can't be too critical of security weaknesses.

However, it is always disappointing to see a tubular lock, which lacks any of the features, which would stop an impression in tool.

That weakness is essentially makes this a core that's been obsolete for about 30 years.

Let's see why that is by opening it up with this cheap and readily available tool, what I'm going to do is push it into the lock and turn at the same time, repeating that motion over and over until it opens, which should take less than 30 seconds.

There we go.

It took a little bit longer than I would have expected, probably because of weak springs inside of the lock.

Even so, it is certainly a lot that can be opened quickly with this low scale attack.

As I said before, though, it probably doesn't matter on a faucet lock, where any precaution at all is likely to be enough.

In any case, that's all I have for you today.

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