Spotted at Bunnings locally, but there seems to be plenty of stock Australia-wide
Ticket underneath showed $36.99 for the single.
Twin-pack is also on sale for $38.55 if you want identical keys.
Quad pack is exuberant at $93.95, but that's what you pay for to have four identically keyed locks?
I came to the comments looking for the LPL reference. Not disappointed it's the first comment on this lock.
OzBargainers falling over themselves to be the first to comment about LPL on literally every lock related deal ever
OzBargainers falling over themselves to be the first to comment about OzBargainers falling over themselves to be the first to comment about LPL on literally every lock related deal ever
I think I saw McNally open padlocks by smashing two Masterlocks together.
What is LPL ?
I told my girlfriend that 64mm is extra long but she wouldn't believe me
That's weird. Sounds massive to me too.
It is compared to 6.4mm
I was in the pool! It was cold!
Good for keeping honest people out
Honest people need a lock to stop them stealing your stuff? Really?
even largely honest people are still opportunistic thieves.
His point/joke is that the lock will only stop someone who has no intent of stealing anyway (honest people).
A person who has full intent to steal won't have any issue getting through a Masterlock with a tool as sophisticated as a hammer.
Don't store the key with it
Lock Picking Lawyer says no.
Does he recommend any better ones at a similar price? Feel like most cheap locks are equally crap if someone is actually determined
I believe he rates Lockwood fairly well for a cheaper lock. To be fair, he'd rate a lock made of soggy cardboard better than a master lock though.
Most locks are just a deterrent. I'm pretty sure the ones that aren't cost about 5x and more
Locks are there to keep honest people honest. Knobs who want to take your stuff will just go around, through it or just cut it off. No lock is thief proof.
or any safe given enough time.
Locks are there to keep honest people honest.
Mostly …
Knobs who want to take your stuff will just go around, through it or just cut it off.
For these people, a lock gives you the chance they might seek an easier target, but if they know what's behind the lock, and they want it, it won't stop them.
Plenty of excellent battery tools to defeat the lock.
My neighbour has a big lock on his garden shed. It's an excellent visual deterrent for those walking by. He never actually locks it …
As much as I appreciate his work… LPL is used by too many as a chance to just shit on 99% of locks, particularly ones are that priced fairly.
Of course. It's in his financial interest to continue doing what he is doing.
Let me open this masterlock, with another masterlock smack …opens
This thread has made me paranoid, I just bought a combination key safe and I get the feeling it can be broken instantly. Security really is an illusion
yeah, what's happening to Australia? most people used to leave their doors unlocked and car windows down not too long ago, now it's all security cameras, alarms and high fences.
When I was 13 I had not long moved away from a really rough neighbourhood in brisbane to the sunshine coast. My mum then met a man and he took us to dinner in a sunny coast town called woombye. He didn't lock his car door, so I reminded him and he goes 'nothing will happen… wait, ill prove it'. He put a $10 note under his windscreen wiper and we went inside for dinner for 2 hours. Came back out and the $10 was still here.
So the car was gone, but the $10 was still there?
most people used to leave their doors unlocked and car windows down not too long ago
How long ago are you talking about? I've never done any of those things, and I'm over 40.
I know a lot of rural people don't bother to lock the door to their house, and leave their car keys in the ignition while at home…….but then again, I know a few rural people who have had tools stolen from their sheds, diesel drained from their tanks etc. You can be sure those people now lock their doors and have cameras installed.
The main joke here is that MasterLock has a terrible reputation for producing locks that have major design flaws, and continuing to sell them for many years without addressing those flaws even though they're widely publicised. They just don't care.
Fear is one helluva drug.
It's also partially cultural. 90% of new homes I work on are for new Australians, recently from 3rd world countries. Cameras everywhere is standard for them, and it gives them complete piece of mind. Some still get broken into, and the cameras proved useless… But they still feel better for having them. Personally, I don't get it. It's an expensive placebo/longshot.
Don't put the safe in your master bedroom or office. Put it in a kitchen cupboard.
Thieves will look for them in wardrobes, but statistically they never go through kitchen cupboards because there is nothing in there worth selling.
Half the security is where you hide it.
I put my spare key in it.. it's outside the house (I won't tell you where)
<…..Put it in a kitchen cupboard.
No wonder I've not been able to find any safes, and thanks valkeris, cos of your expose I'll know where to look now…..where's that balaclava gone?
We've put them under stairs, & in return air ducts, bolted to the slab, where they're hard to access, can't lift/lever etc. and hidden by false face/bottom
By the time you've read this, LPL has proved it wasn't a fluke twice