{"id":27,"date":"2006-08-04T03:33:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T01:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=27"},"modified":"2006-08-04T21:36:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T19:36:22","slug":"bumping-locks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Bumping locks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without looking at my stats I clearly see global peeks in awareness of
\nthe bump key<\/a> problem. All of a sudden I receive a bunch of mail asking
\nif I am am willing to test locks for company X, whether I am available
\nfor presentations, or if I sell bump keys or the ‘Tomahawk’
\nbumphammer. Especially the Tomahawk, designed and made by 92 year old
\nGerman engineer Kurt Z\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bchlke, seems to be what most people are looking
\nfor. And very often I have to disappoint them. Kurt does not make a
\nwhole lot of them, and the ones I get my hands on I trade or give
\naway.<\/p>\n

\"tomahawk<\/p>\n

In my latest presentations I also demonstrate a new type of hammer by
\nJens Andrews. This so called ‘power hammer’ is made of … shoe sole.
\nIt has turned out to be an excellent tool for the job. I like it and
\nneed it sometimes when that little ‘extra power’ is needed to let pins
\njump. Jens uses a rather expensive and delicate technique to glue
\nmultiple strips of shoe sole together to create a hammer this accurate
\nand almost indestructible.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I will relay mail to him if you are interested in one.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\"power<\/p>\n

The lock (tools) industry has also discovered money can be made
\nselling bump hammers. At the ALOA<\/a> locksmith tradeshow in Las Vegas
\nlast month I noticed some vendors where selling commercial bump
\nhammers. Some of them even sold complete keyrings with 999 keys for
\nthe most popular US lock brands. Peterson manufacturers<\/a> designed a
\nhammer called ‘Tommy Hawk<\/a>‘. This nylon hammer has two holes in the
\nback. These holes can be filled with lead or sand to give it extra
\nweight. At first I was afraid the hammer would not have the mass
\nneeded to transfer the right amount of energy. But it proved to be
\nalmost as good as the original Tomahawk.<\/p>\n

\"tommy<\/a><\/p>\n

Consumers in the US are starting to realize there is a problem with
\ntheir locks. Newsweek<\/a> did an article on bumping and it is causing a peek here….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Without looking at my stats I clearly see global peeks in awareness of the bump key problem. All of a sudden I receive a bunch of mail asking if I am am willing to test locks for company X, whether I am available for presentations, or if I sell bump keys or the ‘Tomahawk’ bumphammer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}