 This is Alex coming to you from my makeshift studio in Wenyu House in North Carolina. This is an Ingersoll Sargent and Greenleaf lock. The lock itself has an Ingersoll lock core in it. It's a padlock that was made by Sargent and Greenleaf in the United States. It's sort of a British American collaboration. I had it out because I had this locked on one of my storage pods that I was using when I was moving across country. I figured if I'm going to put locks on my pod, I might as well have the best. I have some bigger locks and some batter locks, but the little holes on the locking bolt on the pod would only accept this. I guess it's like a three-eighths shackle. It would not accept a half inch shackle. So my big SMG Medico powered locks would not fit there. Ironically, this lock is probably a hundred times stronger than the door of the pod itself. One thing I'll point out, this did not have rust on it when I got it. Probably six months ago off of eBay, possibly from one of you, I don't know. But it did develop a little bit of rust, despite not being in a whole lot of weather, I think. Because the pods are shipped supposedly in closed trucks, but where the chrome plating had shipped off, it did rust there. A tiny bit of rust residue, probably also from the shackle and the body. But overall, I mean, this thing has probably made it a stainless steel. So I don't think any structural problems are going to happen there. There we are. Now, this lock is actually patented by Ingersoll, as I said, made by SMG. The key, which is here, indicates that it is a government issue lock. Well, my camera skills have not improved. Here we go. Government issued locks. So you can see this, as you would say, do not duplicate on this side. If we flip it over, you can see this letter R here. I looked up this key on Ingersoll's website to see if it could get copies. And sure enough, the R series, you cannot get copies. It's restricted even today. Now, I have the lock partially disassembled. When I got the pod back, the thing was locked on there. And this plate was sort of like that, hanging off. You can see pretty well at an angle. And I was like, oh dear, what have they done to my beautiful lock? Turns out what had happened is that these two little screws, which, frighteningly, are all that hold this bottom plate onto the lock, had worked their way loose, probably due to the fact that I had earlier disassembled it to take a look at the locking mechanism. And I don't think I had quite the right wrench to tighten these properly. So it's probably my fault. These appear to be hardened steel. I don't think they really pose a security risk, although if I were designing it, I might have made these a little longer, but whatever. The lock itself is made from laminations of, I believe, stainless steel. See, I mean, it's just finished down. You can see tiny little, there we go, tiny little divots in one or two places. I guess those are the rivets holding these together, but it wouldn't surprise me if these are also welded or glued or something, but that's not coming apart. Now, I think the coolest part of this lock is this right here. This is the lock core. I have to give you an idea of how big this thing is. So that's like about an inch and a quarter across. Pretty big. Ingersoll still makes these locks. Actually, they make a lock that looks very similar to this lock mechanism itself, which is pretty unique to these guys. The Japanese company, if I can get this open. There we go. MIWA kind of copied it, one of their models. So this is the lock core. As you can see, it's massive, massive thing. We like to talk about actuators. There's an actuator that's almost certainly hardened steel. So there would be an unlocked position. That would be the unlocked position, the ball bearings here. There's a gasket to keep water out. Ball bearings are down inside there with grease on them, as you can see, I'm already getting my table dirty. But that's not the cool part. The cool part is this. Let me zoom in. You can see this better. So the way this works is this is a sidebar. And when the key is fully inserted, the sidebar can fit down into this groove here. It's a pretty hefty sidebar overall, I'd say. It's a piece of what looks like machined brass protected by this hardened steel front plate here. So actually, this little plate here doesn't matter because you'd have to get through probably an eighth of an inch of pretty hard steel there to get at it. This is held in by a roll pin. It looks like the lock itself. Now inside here, what runs the... Let's see if I can... So you can get a good look. When I move the key, see the gates? Are they all aligned right now? So that can go in. Okay, so as I remove the key, you can see those gates moving around. And you might see yourself, ah, it's a waiver tumbler lock. Well, sorry guys, it's not. This is actually technically a lever lock. So here are the levers. And as the key... Let's see if I can get this right. As the key goes in, you can see there I'm pressing on this lever. It presses up. So this top bidding would press up on the edge of say this lever here. How well is that showing up? It's okay. There's that lever. If I turn the pick around and press on the other side, there's five more levers on the bottom. So total of ten. So you can see I'm running... I'm actually pressing on several of them, but I'm pressing on these guys here. So the key goes in. There are little things, little bits of these levers that protrude into the keyway. They interact with the bidding. And then on the other side of the levers, let's see if I can push one by hand. Maybe not. Just take the pick back in. On the other side of the levers, are the gates, these little gates. And so... Let's see if I can... There we go. So this one right here, you can see the gate is pretty close to a line with center. And so as the... as the key moves around in there, it brings all these gates into alignment. So there's ten total levers, five on one side, five on the other. These are notoriously difficult to pick. I've seen one or two people, maybe three pick these on YouTube. And after quite a lot of trouble, I've played with it a bit and decided that it's... I'll probably have to wait till a little later in my career. Very, very fiddly to pick. Not a lot of room to work in there. Despite how big it looks with the warding and everything and how close these are together, it's very easy to manipulate the wrong ones. But I just thought this was one of the most beautiful locking mechanisms I'd ever seen. Took me a while to figure out how to get it out when I first got the lock, but of course it's the first thing I did was take it apart. But just a very nicely made lock just to complete the story. That sidebar interacts. Well, that sidebar grabs on to these notches here that are milled... They appear to actually be milled into this final constructed stack. And then way down in here there's two little ball bearings. But you can't see. Anyhow, very cool lock. There's a close-up of the logo. Let's see. Ingersoll. Some of them say I think the faceplate says patent number on it. If you look that up you can see that's actually a patent on the lock body, not on the locking mechanism itself. So the U.S. government or S&G actually licensed the design for this lock body. I've also seen, I think, a numerical lock, but I don't know if that's accurate. Licensed that from Ingersoll. And obviously this core. You can buy locks for your house. You can buy door locks with this mechanism. And they're actually pretty affordable for what it is. Pretty high-security lock. I doubt you could bump this. It occurred to me after I filmed the video that you might like to see it actually working fully assembled. So here it is locked up. A little bit of play in the shackle, but I can assure you with those ball bearings and the other tolerances in there you're not going to care about that jiggling. So the key goes in here. It rotates one half, a little over one half turn. It's actually about a third of a turn. The shackle comes out and it actually comes all the way out. And interestingly you can put the shackle back in either way you like. Lock it up. It seems like a trivial feature but when I was putting it on the pod because of the incredibly tight space here to get the bolt in which is barely fit. It's actually really nice that the shackle comes out all the way because you can put it on your lock or whatever you're locking and then slide the shackle in there with your fingers actually a little big for that. Lock it up. And there you go, not going anywhere. You can imagine if that's in a nice high security with one of those big chains or high security hasp or something you're not getting in there without breaking something else. This guy's not going to be your point of failure. Not a picking video but just I think a really cool lock and I don't know exactly what time frame these were used in but I'm going to suspect the 50s based on the patent numbers and things like that in the 40s and 50s. So gorgeous lock very secure and it kept my personal belongings safe and out of the elements and away from would be these all the way across the country. So thank you S&G and Ingersoll and thank you for watching and stay tuned for more videos please subscribe if you like my work and as always thanks for watching and please keep it legal. Cheers and Merry Boxing Day.