‘The Clam’ Key Casting Kit Review
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- There is something so amazingly addictive and fun about key casting - I don’t know what it is but it’s just so satisfying! 😃🔑🗝 in this review we look at Wendt’s ‘The Clam’ kit. Link to product in the description 👍
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Disclaimer: This set was sent to me for review by Wendt and so under the The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP U.K.) rules, this counts as sponsored content. This is not an advert. I do not accept money to do reviews and and there is no expectation for me to review an item positively or even at all. I do not profit from the sales of this item. The opinions expressed are my own. I do provide designs and consultation to multiple lock pick manufacturers, including Multipick, Sparrows Lock Picks and Wendt. As I only like to show and review items on my channel that I think have some merit, if I don’t like something, I generally don’t tend to do a review and I feed any issues back to the supplier.
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There is something so amazingly addictive and fun about key casting - I don’t know what it is but it’s just so satisfying! 😃🔑🗝 in this review we look at Wendt’s ‘The Clam’ kit. Link to product in the description 👍
Lol. You casted your hand yet? Its coming. You KNOW it is 😁🤣
Fascinating, casting & duplicating keys is incredible. This kit really works so well, especially with all the tips you’ve shown. Great video as always.
Thanks 🙏
Actually, I'd use the gallium key idea for pranking security in the winter time.
🤔
Make a key outside.
Carefully cleanup.
Drop outside a security shack.
Kick back & enjoy the show.
😎
They'd probably think that they stumbled on the case of an international... (who knows ?)
When the key melts away.
More so, it they could get it inside where someone else can see it melt.
LMAO 😅😂🤣😂
Hey !
How about outside of the police entrance to city hall ?
Yeah, one major problem with that is when it's inserted in the lock, any gallium thats still in the lock would melt and gradually deform the insides of the lock, which would make the lock unusable too. LPL did a couple of videos showing what gallium can do to a padlock.
@@penfold7800 ,
Sorry Pen....
Ya missed the point.
The full intention is a Mind F...
on security or cops.
@@torchofkck4989 what an idiot.
Great video Mr Noob, I have always been interested in key casting. Very good and straightforward demo. Thanks mate👍🇦🇺😊
Thanks 🙏
This is definitely on my ‘to do’ list! Thanks for this upload 🙌
Thanks buddy! You def should try. Great fun!
Definitely enjoyable. I've been using the Multipick Quick Key Pro for some time and found it more reliable in terms of the mould its self, made a few changes on the way like using Sculpey oven bake clay instead of the two part silicone stuff which sometimes sets before you get it into the mould but the most interesting part is the alloys and ive tried quite a few , ive had the best results using Prince August Model metal especially when casting more complex keys like pExtra. All good fun though. Enjoyed the vid mate👍
Thanks 🙏
That looks like a lot of fun. You can cut a proper key from a blank using the cast, if needed. You can melt the cast again and have endless fun with such a set 👍👍👍
Indeed!
Looks like lots of fun to do.
As always a fantastic review.
Thanks 🙏
Nice piece of kit and a great review. Thanks for sharing Ash and enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Thanks Gazz!
Outrageously expensive for a bit of clay, a chunk of pot metal, a few ounces of talcum powder, a ladle, and a plastic clamshell. You can easily buy everything in that kit for under $30 (US).
A lot of people like it just to be all assembled in a nice case though. Depends on your need and budget I guess?
Great timing ;) I'm currently building my own set. So far it consists of Fimo modeling clay, a small butane torch, woods metal and a wax melting spoon (both from eBay) and some baby powder. I'm currently waiting for a friend to come around to 3D print the mould. The only thing I'll then need is a nice case for it. Not that I need that kind of kit but it's fun stuff to play around with.
One thing I've learnt from Deviant Ollam: Get a silicone form for small cubes, that way you can create small woods metal portions
Happy casting!
@@LockNoob Thank you! Not sure what I need it for yet but it's fun to have the tools available when needed
A nice and fun piece of kit,good explanation as always,billbo.
Thanks 🙏
Love this kit Ash mate seen a LPL using this very cool well demonstrated🤟😊🇬🇧👊👍😎
Thanks Leon!
Nice kit. Thanks for the demo.
One use I can think of is to cast a quick control key for a Schlage IC lock. Or maybe cast a 3D printed key into something a bit stronger.
Nice idea with the 3D printing!
Amazing video and a very useful kit.
Thanks 🙏
You probably dont want to use a cast key as a replacement as the metal that is used in the kits arent that strong. It is good for using to get into a lock a few times though. Great for physical pentesting jobs where you have access to the key for a short time but, want to come back later.
Fun to do too!
Not a metal specialist by a long stretch but the only metal I can think of with a lower melting point is mercury.
Very interesting review my friend thanks so much for the great video. 😎
Thanks 🙏
Great job Ash!
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Really enjoyed that bro, great video.
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I've cast several times off of the same clay mold. While the clay does shrink some due to heating it repeatedly with the molten metal they are still fully functional for at least 6 castings.
Suggestion for those of us with limited funds. I went to one of those internet sites that manufacture plastic products. On consignment, their clients send in computer files that tell the plastics machine how to print the item. Then the company lists the item on their sells list and when an item sells, they make it and send the designer a commission. I found lock sport clam shells for sell for about $20.00 each. I bought a huge bottle of talcum powder from Walmart for about two bucks. I went to a hobby store and bought eight bricks of clay for about $7.00. I bought a large brick of field metal online for about $10.00. I bought the identical ladel online from a fishing/sporting goods store for about $10.00. In sum, I got an almost identical kit for $40.00 - which includes about three times more talcum powder, eight times more clay, and four times more field metal.
in the video you said if you mess up a cut and it's too shallow you can not add to it to fix that cut. that is true because the metal melts and a low temp. but on a brass key, there is a way to raise a low cut to have it work. on a Schlage key if you need a number 7 cut and the key has a number 9 in that position ,you can add electronic solder and have it work in the lock.
i have done that before. i had a key with biting 59334 and turned it into 57437. and it worked great.filed the 3 to a 4 and the last cut to a 7. and the 9 to a 7 by adding the solder. that's it.
Now that I’ve watched this I might just get into metal work now already started wood work still love lock picking though :)
It’s great fun!
I think I would add a small woodworkers c clamp to this kit. A few degrees too cool, and that clay will become really hard to compress. I have used this process to duplicate parts by casting the part, and matching it to a piece of steel to be carefully filed. The woods metal shrinks just the right amount for my purposes.
Interesting usage!
Would this work on the wafer locks that are in car doors (or whatever that type is called)?
Wood's is with lead and cadmium.
Rose's is with lead only and is much safer but has slightly high higher melting point.
Fields has indium instead of cadmium or lead and there for more expensive.
You could try keys from pure Gallium as well. But it'll be hard to have it solidify.
Thanks Friend
Is there an alternative to the clamp mold?
Nice kit!
Thanks 🙏
How can I buy one for my self .. if you can please help find it
Thank you for another cool video. I am trying to learn how to lock pick as a hobby. And I find pretty much all your videos really informative. I have watched pretty much all your videos. I been trying to tackle just the basics of some of your earliest videos. But I am having trouble with picking a 4 pin master lock. I can easily open up a clear plastic training lock with hooks, diamond, and rack. I started out with a really cheap lock picking set. But they were hard to use cause they were big and bulky. So I bought a better basic lock picking set. They are alot slimmer and more easily for me to pick the clear training lock. Is there any more tips or hints you have to you may have for person who is a true noob to lock picking than what you already covered in your videos? Thank you again for all your videos.
I can recommend Helpful LockPicker's channel for videos on basics: czcams.com/video/0BO5zLD9CQ0/video.html - and well, getting good at something takes time, so get more locks of roughly your skill level and slightly above and keep on picking
I would say, get a 'city rake', 'bogata', 'short hook', 'medium hook', 'half diamond' and 'petersen gem' from sparrows. They come in 25thou standard thickness in kits, but you can get them in 18thou thickness if you order them separately. I recently bought the 'sparrows classic kit' and just the city rake from that kit opened all of my clear plastic locks, and some of my cheap brass padlocks too. The city rake from the cheap kits that you get with the clear plastic locks opens all of them too if you sand all the edges of the pick smooth. Sometimes you might set nearly all of the pins except a couple. I set them by inserting the rake in the other way round and tease them up with the tip of the back of the rake. Sometimes it helps to 'spring' your tension, don't just keep a tight tension, ease off and on a little during raking. BosnianBill explains this very well in his training videos. The plastic locks aren't very good at teaching you 'feel'. They're good to give you confidence and show you how locks work. Try to get some cheap brass padlocks and door lock cylinders from the cheapo bargain shops. They are an easier step towards good quality locks. TriCircle and Egret make fairly good locks that are better quality but not too difficult to pick. With most masterlocks I've seen, the main problem is really wobbly cores and strong actuator springs. You really have to 'bully' them as BosnianBill says. I don't have much luck raking them as my rake tends to get snagged on the poorly machined warding, so I use a short hook, I put tension at the top of the keyway and I try the pins from front to back, then back again (1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1). Oh, and I pick from the top down, opposite to what most pickers on CZcams do, but I'm only a beginner, and I'm doing what works for me at the moment.
Try this! czcams.com/video/QcQL2oP8kyo/video.html
That lock with the screwable backend is really nice. What’s the best way to find these?
They are just standing Schlage KIK cylinder for doors and security screens. I think you should be able to get them at your local hardware store. 👍🇦🇺😊
😱 just got the Multipick one last week 😂
Cool!
Very cool kit my friend, quite nice for restricted key making. Is this what they use for wheel weights
Don't think so, it looks too brittle for that. But it might be worth seeing how easy it is to melt a couple of wheel weights. Might be a cheaper and stronger alternative
Thanks Thumper
Regular 3D printed ABS can handle 72C as a paper thin layer. The thicker the object the higher the resistance. Polycarb is like 80-90C+
If you use a torch, the silver solder, for plumbing, would probably be a lot stronger than lead.
Lock Noob, how strong is the key? Is it at risk of snapping or bending if knocked around on a key ring, sat on, etc? Is it any weaker than the real key?
It’s strong but it’s very brittle. Like any low melting point metal key, it’s a temporary thing
@@LockNoob Thanks!
What spy movie was it that use this technique? Night at the musuem?
Nice kit, once you used the cast key to cut a key from a blank could you re-use the cast key again? Also i think if you found the right plastic like the spools from a 3d printer, you might use it instead of the metal using a hot glue gun setup using the plastic.
also great video.
I think the plastic would set too soon
That 'Tlite' looks like it's not your standard cheapo candle. It looks like it might be a Paraffin Wax, which seems to be difficult to find these days. Anyway, the important thing to note is that it has a lower melting point to standard cheapo candles (you can drop the oily residue from a lit parafin wax candle on your skin and it won't burn). The reason I think they've used it here is so that it doesn't heat up the woods metal to boiling point where it would vent gas from the lead content. Also having a lower melting point metal might preserve the clay a little so you can in fact use it again (just add linseed oil to make it soft again). This is a neat kit I guess, but it does seem a bit pricey for the fact that most of it is made from easy to get items that are very cheap to buy. Is woods metal easy to come by? What I think I might try is using the same method to cast a key from solid silver.
It could be!
Ever since I was a kid I've wanted something like this not for anything malicious I just always thought they were super cool whenever I saw them in movies Please tell me they sell these in the States
That clay looks like the clay they made the show ":Gumby" from when I was a kid.
Never seen that done before, good review! It seems a little overpriced perhaps, having looked up prices of each part on ebay!
Very good video. I would put it at phenomenally over priced category.
@@philipwells2793 😄😄
@@philipwells2793 it's probably aimed at companies. And from a company point of view: you're certain to get a VAT receipt. You don't have to look up and coordinate x sources, some of them might not have in stock as many items as you need. That stuff comes in a nice case, which makes storing it much easier. Restocking is easy. If you're a company it might be worth it from a financial point of view
Awesome review!! Can you reuse any of the metal?
Did you get the parcel?
Lock Noob yes, I haven’t opened it yet but I am going to tape it today. I learned how to save everything to the cloud so I don’t lose any videos anymore. Thank you so much!! I am so excited!!
Lock pickings Gal no worries! Just don’t release the vid until I release mine which might be a month or two... I’m quite behind!
And yes, you can reuse the metal - I don’t know how many times though
good thing the ruko triton profile has a hidden deep opening behind the sidebar cuts. should make it impossible to insert a molded key into the cylinder.
Someone molded and cast a stealth key so anything is possible I guess
Boris Kozo interesting. I should be impossible to get the clay out of those areas again, without destroying it
@@RuneInternational It was with Silicone :)
Not worth $150.
can you just tell us what type of mettle it was please?
Not sure tbh. Woods or fields metal is usually what’s used
Thank you
Wood clamps work well
ebay link ?
As seen in the 1973 movie, the Day of the Jackal...
Cool!
Not bad first try or did this take 10 takes lol
Oh I DEFINITELY practiced a handful of times before shooting! Every kit has its nuances and I didn’t want operator error to creep into the review for sure. The 2 part putty takes a bit of getting used to as you have to work to a time limit and using different metal and heating methods can be trial and error. If you ever get a casting kit, I’d always suggest practicing a few times before using it in a real setting..
Who doesn't like playing with the clam?
I hope that pocket knife is registered and you have a permit for it.
Lol
Seems a lot of money for what you get.
Yep, 3d print or carve your own, all the other bells and whistles can be had on Ebay for cheap
Yeah Brad & John...
The $$$ for what you get...
Instant access.
If you look at it from a security perspective...
If you loan a set of keys out to a unknown to use the restroom, you're giving means, opportunity, & privacy to circumvent security restrictions. As you were not meant to be assigned any keys.
But, you unknowingly were. 🤔😉
@@torchofkck4989 Nah, you can build your own set to do the same for maybe a 5th of the price. But you are right, you pay the price for instant access - to the whole set. It's mean for physical pen testing professionals. The ones that charge $800+ per day. Those people can afford the price and pay it gladly for the convenience of getting it all at once in a nice case. With a VAT receipt.
@@saschaschneider6355 ,
Yep.
I'm almost a complete DIY'r...
Amazing what all you can get from online, Michael's & Hobby Lobby. 😉.
I prefer the 2pt high temp silicone molding...
I've been currently researching from:
www.smooth-on.com/products/
(Supplier of Walmart.com)
& a few others.
Have fun & be safe.
"Bond.....James Bon..n..d.........wait. Does that say $150??! Uh...nope. Hm mmm."
Questo sistema è vecchio
Oggi basta un video oppure una foto
E più facile la decodifica con occhio esperto.. 👍💯
Buon lavoro👍💯
😃👍
@@LockNoob A great compound for imprint and sponge of flowers.
Good job and congratulations on your work
Well that's a little James bond eh...
Lol
I see this as a fun and appealing thing but other than espionage, I fail to see a use in the real world.
Maybe someone could enlighten me?
@@Zieh-Fix what's a 'pen tester'?
Oh I see, you mean going in covertly, finding flaws, and then going back and demonstrating, like why it's not a good idea leaving keys lying around, or still in doors! (I can't tell you how often I've seen that happen -even in local government buildings). I've even seen keys on the table, attatched to a neck strap with a computer login key card attatched (yeah the computer would beep if I took the card out cos it's still logged in, but wow how easy it would be to impression the key to the staff entry back door). ...that kind of thing?
Has clamps available, presses key with hands... OK x'D
😁
If that really contains lead and cadmium protect yourself and wear some nitrile gloves.
Good tip
3D print a clamshell and make your own kit.
You could indeed!
@72polara as i did, but the problem is the type of clay.. i didn't found something good..
Have you found a solution? I had touble trying all kinds of clay as well. I just ordered "sculpey" Clay as that was recommended by lockpickinglawyer.@@chazy10
Their kit especially their decoding tools are definitely a step up from lishi, but their website as with all German websites I have visited is a mess not very user friendly at all
I don’t find it too bad 🤷♂️
@@LockNoob well I normally use my phone for buying kit, perhaps you use the computer, who knows
Or just go to your closest key cutter and get a key cut for a fiver. Really don't see the need for this unless you are trying to get a key that you really shouldn't have...
Read my pinned comment 👍😃
Way overpriced
Good review though
Thanks 🙏
Sorry but I have to say it.. That's seriously overpriced for what it is!
It’s not cheap
You are talking to much are you going to do anything or just keep talking
I have a short that’s under a minute long and over 44 million views on the same topic if you can’t manage this