welcome to corporals corner today we're gonna shim a padlock so stick around in a previous video we talked about agate home back in urban environment and we mentioned that a 10 mile trek home could easily become 20 to 30 miles depending on the amount of obstacles that you encountered along your way so I thought why not talk about how to negotiate or get around one of those obstacles that you're guaranteed to come across in an urban setting and match your common ordinary household padlock now this lock right here is actually a double locking padlock on the shackle we've got two indentations right here and I'll show you that in a minute what happens when you lock it there's a locking mechanism inside it actually engages inside both those indentations so today what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and grab an ordinary aluminum can and create two shims we're to slide those shims down that shackle we're gonna rotate it into that locking mechanism causing the shackle to be disengaged and pop over so grabbing the aluminum can what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and cut the ends off right here and here and they were gonna cut it right down the middle and from here all you want to do is you want to go ahead and cut off some strips about an inch and half to two inches in width now we have our blank right here what I want to do is I want to go ahead and I want to cut an M shape in this so do that and look for the flattest spot and then go to the center go up about halfway you want to try and cut it a little bit rounded then do some diagonal cuts and there's our M from here I'm going to fold the top down then it's bottom piece over the top so it should resemble something like this now what I do the lock in question I'll go ahead and just bend it around so I know it's got this general shape you can also use a ballpoint pen or a pencil and there's your first shim do this one more time so you have a pair there's the indentation on the shackle I talked to you about and you can see the other one right there that makes it a double locking padlock and inside you can see that small tab right there you got one on this side as well and they're spring-loaded that's the locking mechanism so what happens take your shim place it around the shackle and you rotate it towards that little tab right there for your locking mechanism and once it becomes wedged it will actually bypass that locking mechanism and open your lock gonna start off by taking our shim where I place the face of the shim the outside of my shackle - the same thing to the opposite side I'm going to slide it down by twisting now what you want to do at this point is you want to rotate that shim around - the face is on the inside try and dislodge that locking mechanism he's actually think to the opposite side and what you can do at this point securing your Leatherman you can actually grab onto the piece and continue rotating it towards the inside there you go welcome back that was good to go now I wanna make one thing abundantly clear there's no ulterior motive at all I have no criminal intent whatsoever for filming this video if anything this video can serve as an educational tool to those who get a false sense of security from trusting this piece of crap right here now with that said just like in the field when you practice leaving no trace we don't want the same mentality an urban setting probably tenfold you want to get in get out or get to where you need to be you want to do that undetected they keep your comments view support thanks for watching be down the field have some fun I'll catch you next time