Opening Doors... With a Corkscrew??

With regards to Marcus, Jakub, and others who have written to me in recent memory asking about doors in Gemany, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere (predominantly in Europe) where doors are often designed with a rabet surface, which interfaces with a "double fold" frame.

These "double contact" doors might seem to not be susceptible to loiding attacks with a traveler hook or shove knife. And that's true... but this doesn't mean that no tools exist for attempting an attack against them!

"Corkscrew" style tools aren't typically sold on the North American market but overseas locksmith catalogs have them. There are also tools designed to gain entry through "Tilt and Turn" style windows which are also more popular outside of North America.

Enjoy this small peek at the kind of tools that locksmiths and entry teams on the other side of the ocean use! 👍😁👍

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[MrThecakeisplaying]

In France we tend to use radiology sheets to slip latches, since it's rigid and thin !

[unlockeduk]

technology connections rocks mang .fellow nerd lol

[USBCORD]

Fun fact those hooks come in loom knitting kits also loom knitting is fun. Love your stuff

[bilmantender]

Finally you said it out loud. I've seen so many of the videos from the states and I'm like "Nope. Installing a door like that would not fly in Germany." Building code, homeowners, architects, foremen, would all tear you a new one, if you installed doors with tolerances like that.

[theaureliasys]

A scraping tool was what a neighbor once gave me.

(Think thin metal piece about 1 cm wide, 10 long and it was quite flexible.
That opened the latch in one second.)

[ImGumbyDangit]

Neat. I remember when I lived in Germany in the mid 80's and these were the doors and windows we had. When I came back to Canada and was looking a replacing windows in my house I thought I would love to get these with the roll down shutters, but could not find a local dealer. And on another note on how far the Europeans are ahead of North America, when I was living in Germany, we had 1 week garbage, next week recycling, and the people i rented from took my other material for the pigs. We did not start serious home recycling until about 10 or 12 years ago.

[bluejayoutpost]

So after opening and enjoying some wine open the door with your new tool! Who would've ever thought🌈 Thanks

[The-Anathema]

For when you're doing the drawings internationally, it is worth noting that making 'state' a mandatory field can be a bit awkward for countries that don't have states or provinces.

[alger]

I was amazed at the residential doors, and locks, in Germany. And the thermal efficiency? Yeah... Incredibly good.
Enjoy your travels, and stay safe. dude.

[DADeathinacan]

collapsible traveler hooks? Thats neat

[forgingluck]

Those tilt and fold windows are so cool. Saw them on my travel abroad for architecture school. Really wish they were cheaper to spec here

[jeremy.-.s]

Love all the videos and information!! Have been absolutely binging lol

[brianfield]

Interesting facts on the European doors, Another great video. Take care and be well. 🙂👍🔐

[oknja]

Thanks for a great tip. It's funny that when our university uses a safety lock and even a correctly fitted door, they don't seem to care about the card readers and cards being garbage.
We are literally one of the best technical universities in central Europe (Brno University of Technology), with a faculty of electrical engineering where they teach some of us how to design security systems, and still the only thing that stops you from entering labs with high voltages, radioactive substances and poisonous chemicals are HID readers and Mifare 1K cards that you can defeat using less than 100$ worth of equipment.
By the way, if you ever find yourself visiting Czech Republic, be sure to let me know, I would really like to meet you in person.

[luckythegerman]

As a carpenter, we had a few door ooening jobs. We were not locksmiths, but we were slipping latches on our fancy german Rabited doors.

The tools we used were handmade.

Many main access building doors are much more secure though. Triple locking and so on.
You'll likely need a locksmith or long time brute force to get in.

[johncage]

Another way used by locksmiths in Europe to attack "double contact" doors: Slide in a sheet of sturdy but flexible plastic at some point far above or below the lock through the z shape in and when you made it pull it down where the latch is. (Takes time, more or less destroys the sheet, may damage the wood of the door frame.)

[plasmaburndeath]

You should really do one of these overseas shows, I think you would bring back tons of interesting knowledge and spread a bunch of yours.

[curley]

another great vid with lots of cool info thanks dev for sharing!

[CarnivoreRonin]

It was cool for you to mention Technology Connections. I follow him as well.

[LockPickingLegend]

Picked up a Traveler Hook at ukbumpkeys. Great little tool. Saw you using them.