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Oct. 3, 2020 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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PrepWithMike - How to open any COMBINATION LOCK without the combo!
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Welcome to this Prep with Mike podcast, prepwithmike.com.
We've got a lot of new videos on the site now, including how to make herbal extractions using an ultrasonic cleaning machine to make emergency medicine for antibacterial use, including another segment there about how to make ionic silver nanoparticles using an extraction from a specific type of herb.
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But for this podcast, I'm going to teach you how to open any combination lock very quickly, even if you don't have the combination lock.
Now, why would you need this?
And I have to mention the disclaimer.
This is not about breaking into things that are not yours.
I'm talking about an emergency survival situation, a collapse, maybe a Mad Max scenario.
We're going to have a mass die-off, mass homelessness, mass chaos, lots of things like that.
There are going to be situations where you need to open a combination lock That's being used to lock a door or to lock a storage shed or to lock a chest that's full of something.
And combination locks are incredibly easy to open because most people are really stupid about the way they use them.
And I've noticed this in interacting with people over the years and how they use combination locks.
And it comes down to the fact that most people are really lazy.
And most combination locks are four digit locks.
And most people who use them, when they lock them, They will only spin one cylinder out of the four.
So if your combination is one, two, three, four, and you've got, let's say, a friend that's using this lock and you've shared the combination with them, your friend will probably leave the lock when they're done using it in a state that's something like one, two, three, seven.
Or it might be like 9, 2, 3, 4.
They're probably only going to change one of the numbers.
And that number is usually on the left side or the right side.
And more often than not, it's on the right side.
So the simplest way to open a lock, a combination lock, or you don't know the combination, is to first observe it and write down the currently set combination.
So if it's set on 1, 2, 3, 7, let's say, you're going to write down 1, 2, 3, 7.
Then, you're going to try all ten positions of the right-hand cylinder.
In other words, 1-2-3-8, try to open it.
1-2-3-9, try to open it.
1-2-3-0, try to open it, and so on.
So, in ten tries, you will probably open this lock.
Pretty amazing, huh?
I mean, seriously, try it.
Now, if that doesn't work, then set it back to 1-2-3-7, which is the state in which you found it, and then try the first cylinder.
You know, change it to two and three and four and five and try to open it every time.
So now that means that in 20 tries, because you've tried 10 positions on the right-hand cylinder and 10 positions on the left-hand cylinder, you are now probably about 99% likely to open this lock.
If that doesn't work, then the next most likely approach is to assume that the person has altered two cylinders on the right.
And they've probably altered them by exactly the same amount.
So when people think they're being extra careful, after they're done with the lock, before they walk away from it, they might move the two right-hand cylinders together by some amount.
So if the original combination is one, two, three, four, you might find it in a state of one, two, seven, eight.
Because they've just taken the 3-4 and they've just moved it by 4.
And now it says 1-2-7-8.
So what you would do is you would try the 10 positions of those two cylinders on the right, the 10 different positions.
And one of those is likely to work.
And same story with the two left-hand cylinders.
Try moving those together in 10 positions and you can probably open it.
If that doesn't work, and by the way, if you try those four approaches that I've mentioned, that will open 99% of combination locks.
But if that doesn't work, Then you would go to trying it out, assuming that the two right-hand cylinders have been altered by different amounts.
So then in, well, 100 tries, essentially, you would be able to try all the different combinations of the two most right-hand cylinders.
And that's only 100 different tries.
You'd be able to open it.
And if that doesn't work, try the two left-hand cylinders and By counting essentially from 0-0 all the way up to 9-9.
And so again, that's how you open all the locks.
If that doesn't work, shoot it.
Use a crowbar or whatever.
Now I did want to mention in this podcast too why it's very important to have a pry bar if you live in a city.
Because you're going to have to probably escape areas or get through areas or break into areas as a survival mechanism that have locks or latches.
And if you don't have a good pry bar, you can buy little portable pry bars that are six inches long or eight inches long or even a foot long or what have you.
You can buy them made out of aluminum or better yet, titanium.
A titanium pry bar is very durable and it's extremely light.
And you'll find yourself in situations where you need to pry open doors or windows that have been locked shut or car doors or car windows or things like that.
And it's also a good idea to have a car window braking device, which is usually just a very sharp metal point on the end of some kind of striking device.
Some of the emergency radios and lanterns and so on have like a car brake device on them.
Some of them have a seatbelt cutter as well.
And I should also mention, it's always a good idea to have a seatbelt cutter with you.
Also just a backup knife, by the way, which can be used as a seatbelt cutter.
But just keep in mind, you know, bolt cutters are very popular in cities.
And by the way, law enforcement, who I've worked with over the years in different contexts, in training and so on, law enforcement, they have breaking and entering types of kits.
And they have rams and they have like special kind of axes, you know, You know, firefighters have this equipment as well because they need to break into buildings to save people who might be unconscious from smoke inhalation as they're putting out fires and so on.
So they're very good at breaking and entering from the point of view of a first responder.
And again, that's the context here.
I'm not in any way intending to give anybody advice to do something illegal.
Rather, this is life-saving information.
Maybe saving your own life, maybe saving the life of someone else.
But there is specialized equipment that you can find on certain types of websites, like smashing and raking types of handheld devices that are good at breaking through doors and things like that.
If you don't have that, you can get just sledgehammers or you can get bolt cutters.
And some bolt cutters are portable in the sense that they have folding handles.
Now I carry in my vehicle at all times, you know, in addition to firearms and such, I carry An emergency bolt cutter and an emergency kind of like a breaking and pounding device.
It's got different heads on it.
It's got like a pry bar.
It's got a little axe on the head.
It's got a hammer head on it and so on.
And this one happens to be, I think, like 30 inches long.
So it's not a small thing.
It's a pretty good sized unit.
But I carry that because I never know when I'm going to be out driving around and maybe somebody, I find somebody in a car wreck.
And they're trapped in their car, let's say.
And even though, you know, somebody's probably called 911 and firefighters are on their way, if that car is on fire, it might be up to somebody like me or you to, you know, smash open a window, cut a seatbelt, drag somebody out of a burning vehicle, for example, or drag a child out who is literally strapped in some kind of a child seat, and maybe the car, having been wrecked, The frame is bent or parts of it are bent to where the doors don't open.
This is very common.
You know, firefighters and EMTs know all about this.
That's why they have what are called the jaws of life, you know, a hydraulic system for prying open doors and things.
But those take a lot of time as well.
Or you may arrive on the scene of a burning retail establishment, especially with Black Lives Matter running around setting fire to everything.
You know, they're setting fire to buildings with people living in them.
And so you might need to cut your way through a door lock or smash your way through a window or open something or cut a padlock that's keeping you out via a chain link fence that's locked or something.
You don't know.
There are lots of situations these days where you might have to help somebody escape.
A deadly scenario.
So it's good to know how to get through locks and so on.
Finally, you can buy lockpicking courses for unlocking Tumblr locks.
And Hollywood makes it look like you just walk up to a lock and you stick in a lockpick and you rub it around and then the thing magically opens.
Turns out it doesn't actually work that way.
That's just Hollywood magic.
In truth, it takes a tremendous amount of skill and practice.
To open a multi-cylinder tumbling lock using a lockpick and a tensioner.
This is something that you can buy, actually lockpick training kits.
Where they have locks that are increasingly difficult, and you can practice on them and learn how to open these locks using a lock pick.
It is a skill that you can acquire.
If you can learn how to drive, you can learn how to pick locks.
But I don't think it's going to be super easy just because you have a lock pick kit.
I've seen a lot of people, they have a lock pick kit, but they've never used it, never tried to open a lock.
Yeah, well, I've tried to open some, and it's hard.
It's actually very difficult to pick a lock.
And some of the locks today are very complex with three-dimensional keys and things like that.
But it's good to have these tools if you need them.
Keep it all legal.
You know, I'm all about following the law.
And this podcast is offered in the context of emergency rescues and emergency entrance into areas, perhaps in a collapse scenario, perhaps in a You know, a fire rescue scenario, something like that.
And I've learned a lot of this by hanging out with cops, by the way, and hanging out with, you know, first responder type of people.
They have these kinds of skills, and they all carry this gear with them, by the way.
Most cops carry all kinds of special gear in their cars, kind of the way I do, because they're prepared for all kinds of emergencies.
In any case, check out more of my videos and podcasts at prepwithmike.com.
Keep it safe, keep it legal, and thank you for listening.
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