What Makes A Secure Padlock?

Do you need a good padlock? They can be used to secure many different types of property.  If you ride a bicycle you are familiar with the need to keep you bike from riding away when you aren’t looking.

If you have a tool shed at your home a padlock is the normal way that most homeowners keep their valuable tools from walking away.

Of course many of us have commercial storage sheds where we keep all types of overflow.  You can have many valuable items that are exposed to random folks that are in that area every day.

I generally see padlocks as a way to keep mostly-honest folks, honest. Are we wrong, in that thinking? Do you know that some locks are truly significantly better at protecting your property?

Here’s a rundown of some of the features that make a difference:

The standard padlock comes in laminated, shrouded, and solid-body variants. The laminated version is the one you see in the infamous Master Lock “Tough Under Fire” ad, where they claim that their lock survives an encounter with a sharpshooter.

Unlike solid-body locks, laminated locks are less prone to cracking under heavy prying because the pry force is distributed among the laminated locks’ many individual plates of steel and the rivets that hold them together. If one plate cracks, the others still contribute structural strength; you have to crack lots of the layers to break the lock. You’ll notice in the video above that the bullet tears a hole clean through the lock, but the lock stays shut because the plates are still held together by many of the rivets.

Shrouded models add a case cover that extends above the lock body to make it harder for thieves to slip bolt cutters around the lock’s shackle.

Disc padlocks work along this same principal, incorporating a round shape that partially hides the shackle from cutters or pry bars. However, most disc padlocks are solid-body, which leaves them pretty open to brute-force smashing.

Hidden shackle padlocks take the whole thing a step further, extending the faces of the padlock’s disc to cover the shackle entirely.

Next you’ll find all sorts of metallurgy claims, especially in terms of the shackle. And finally you’ll note all sorts of convenience features like stainless keyways to prevent corrosion and so on.

When you need a lock you need a GOOD lock, not the cheapest you can buy, but the best you can buy.

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