 Alex again. If you've been following my continuing saga of my move, you will know that I have just recently moved from California to North Carolina and in doing so I had three pods which are like these shipping containers that you can rent. They put them in your driveway, you put your stuff in there, you lock them up, they come and take them away and then whenever you get where you're going they deliver them back to your driveway and you unload them and they go away again. As I said you lock them up and I'm a lock guy so when I was going to lock them all up I went through my collection of locks and tried to find the high security nastiest locks I could and unfortunately the pods only support like about a 3 eighth shackle or a gate millimeter is the largest still take and so as I got to the third pod I was running out of you know reasonable locks. This is one of the ones that I chose and the reason for that is that despite being a Stanley and not a very expensive lock it looked pretty good quality and I had not been able to pick it yet so I figured well must be half decent. I don't suck that much at picking. So anyway I think Bosnian built it a review of a similar Stanley and I have another one which I have picked but I wanted to first start with a few criticisms on this and I'll I'll probably do a picking video separately but I didn't want to mess it up any from the condition that came in. So when I put this on the pod it was brand new. Absolutely brand new. Let me move this here and see if I can get a little better light on it maybe. Okay let's take a closer look at the lock itself. So on first blush it looks like it might be kind of stainless or something like that but what it appears to be is a paint or lacquer over top of non-stainless steel. So you can see that from having been jostled around and so forth the paint has gotten scratched in a couple of places here. I think primarily on this side which is probably facing out and it started to rust and I thought that was kind of lame that they could either use a better quality paint or something you can actually see right here. You can see like a little dimple there and I'm sure if I poked it that it would probably come off but whatever this is is not terribly durable and I think after several years of exposure probably wouldn't be in great shape. So there's criticism number one. If I open it up you will also see some telltale signs of rust. Now I haven't opened this lock up to see what's going on in there but we'll investigate that presently. But there's some more rust there. Now remember this pod supposedly was kept in a climate-controlled area and in a covered truck coming across the country so the only real moisture it would have had access to would be condensate and maybe whatever rain or whatever occurred while it was in my driveway on one end or the other being loaded. It's not like it was out in the rain for months it was relatively sheltered. So I would not have expected you know any real signs of you know weathering on there. The rust appears to have come from something else inside I'm going to guess it's the ball bearings but I haven't. One other thing that I noticed in horror when I got the lock back, not key rotating by the way, it's an SC-4 keyway. It is a very nice key but let's zoom in on it. Take a closer look at this key. Breaking light. See those numbers? It says 388-379. Now one aspect of any high-security lock is that, or keying system I should say, is that you should not have direct bidding codes on them. So it's 388-379-388-379. That's a direct bidding code. Makes it very easy, convenient to copy if you have a code machine. Also makes it very easy to copy if you just happen to know the number. So any of you now that have an SC-4 can cut an SC-4 key can cut a key for my padlock. So we won't be using that one again. Let's see what's going on inside. So I've unlocked it. You can see that there is a set screw here which retains the shackle. So I'm going to use not quite the right bit but something close enough to remove the set screw. Hopefully. There it goes. It's actually pretty decent. Look how long it is. It's got a little lock tight on the or thread sealer on there. Now once I take that off this should perhaps with some persuasion pop out. So there you can see more rust. I have not done this yet so and actually some more rust just fell out off camera there. Now I can see inside that there is a spring which conveniently doesn't want to play nice with me. It's probably binding on the ball bearings. If I unlock it again it's when you do live filming. There we go. And that looks like our culprit right there. There's our spring. So they made what looks like a pretty nice lock and they put a mild sort of you know unplated spring which appears to have rusted. But who knows maybe some other part of the lock that rusted. So let's see if we can take it apart a little further and peering inside. I see looks like another hex head screw so hopefully my screwdriver will fit. Okay so finally after disassembling my hex key set and doing a lot of fiddling I finally was able to loosen the Allen screw at the bottom of this dark dark hole slowly. Just wanted to show you that it's a good part. Here we see some more rust on the screw with a little retaining nut that holds the base of the lock in. It's kind of shut up like an American. There's the base of the lock or the bottom of the lock. The keyway, the little keyway protector which I guess is to prevent drilling. Maybe it's hardened steel. Maybe it's not. Who knows. But there we go. So we see a kind of shlag looking lock or cylinder. We see appears to be just a little another ball bearing detent that keeps this in place. One more rust here and let's see what else is going on in there. Okay and the other ball bearing is there. Let's see if we can shine some light down in here. Maybe we can see the source of the rust. So you can see and down in the hole there and to a lesser extent there but it's pretty severe there. All that rust down there and what I suspect is going on is that just as the body rusted where the enamel came off they didn't bother to put enamel down in there. Down in the these holes and as water got in there it rusted the non-stainless steel. Otherwise fairly nicely you know milled and constructed block body rusted that. So it probably not a high longevity item there and that's the lock itself which has a slag back on it with this funny little actuator and let's see if we can get a shot down inside the body. It's not too bad. Get a little light in there. Kind of a goofy looking mechanism but I suspect that the that little plate there is to probably help prevent bypass because it is not key retaining but it looks basically similar to an American style actuator and I'm not going to try to pull that out because I don't want to try to put it back in. So there we go. So this is a Stanley shrouded shackle padlock that has made its way across the country. It did do its job. It protected my personal belongings. My wife's personal belongings more importantly. And I can tell you from picking these the key ways are. The locks are pretty decent. Good tolerances at least. But if you're going to use this outdoors I would go with something made out of stainless steel or a little better because I have a feeling that various components are going to either rust out or rust in place. You can even see rust on the screw that was holding that in. Plus you need a really long hex, a really long very thin hex Allen key to get that out. It's kind of a pain. So anyway maybe I'll pick the cylinder for you and on the next video. Anyhow this is Alex. Thanks for watching. Stanley if you by some miracle are watching maybe have some comments for us or maybe not. Anyhow and as always have fun and absolutely keep it legal. Thanks so much. Bye bye.