[593] Gallium vs. Titalium - Abus Padlock Meets a Gruesome End
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Published 2018-01-07
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This is absolutely the first time I've seen someone managing to poison a fricking lock.
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"Honey, what happened to our garage lock?" LPL: "Gone, reduced to atoms."
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The LPL wouldn‘t even have needed that gallium to crush that lock with his bare hands, he only used it so we mere mortals could comprehend his immense strength
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Imagine calling a locksmith cause you locked yourself out of your house, he pulls out his phone, and you hear "this is the lock picking lawyer" quietly over your shoulder
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Imagine coming back to your storage unit just to find that you’ve been galliumed
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"Drip on three, melting on four, total disintegration of five" And we got it open
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I love this video still 4 years later because its nightmare fuel for the PC enthusiasts who tried using the fancy liquid metal thermal compound with an aluminium CPU cooler.
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Fun fact: this also happens with mercury and aluminum to a bit higher of a degree. Its way more detrimental for aluminum and mercury to touch so thats why mercury, even a tiny drop sealed in like 5 containers, is completely banned from going on planes.
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Fun fact, this is why you're not allowed to take gallium on a plane
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when you dont have a rogue in your party, but the alchemist has your back
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That's impressive that the GaAl alloy can dissociate water with the only cost being Aluminum. You have to love those RedOx reactions!
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are we not gonna talk about how this is about as close to a face reveal as we can get haha? his face in the gallium reflection😂
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In monotonous voice: "Today we are going to be doing something very fun."
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Everyone gangsta till you hear “this is the lockpickinglawyer” outside your door
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This reminds me of a similar effect seen with antique ammunition. In the early days of metallic cartridges, the primers (the part that ignites when hit by the firing pin) were made of mercury fulminate. After firing, the inside of the brass case would be left coated with mercury, which absorbed into the brass, just as the gallium is doing here. The case was severely weakened, and reusing it could result in the firearm exploding.
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I was hypnotized ... couldn't get my eyes off this process but mostly wanted to see what would happen in the end. Thanks for doing this and for sharing the results.
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"you can see that this lock can be simply bypassed with a little bit of gallium and 6 hours of time, that's a pretty big design flaw"
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plot twist: the gallium was just fancy water and LPL ripped it apart using his strength
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This form of contamination is a HUGE danger as explained during RAF aircraft engineering training. Thank you for another interesting adventure through the destruction of the padlock security world.
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You could barely see his face in the reflection of the gallium and the gallium’ed padlock
