I’ve seen people pick those kinds of locks with the end of a pen they chewed on for a while.
Tubular locks are extremely simple to pick. The only reason they’re used is because they’re cheap and used to protect cheap stuff, like food in vending machines
Is this true? If so, wow that’s insecure. Someone could easily sneak in some actually good snacks for reasonable prices! Even better then stealing
It’s not just vending machines. It’s everywhere.
Very long, but well done talk on the topic: https://youtu.be/ZUvGfuLlZus?si=nr4Wa_XMxr8woq-P
As someone who has actually.owned and operated lots of vending machines of different types over the years, no this isn’t true.
You can buy vending machine locks that are keyed the same if, for example, you wanted all 12 machines that you owned to have locks that could be opened with the same key but the chances of that key opening any random vending machine you may encounter are about as good as your house key working to open your neighbor’s house… Not impossible but not super likely.
In fact, just yesterday I picked up a vending machine key that it took a locksmith over two weeks to make for me with only the lock to copy it from because I’d lost my original for that particular machine.
I have several other vending keys that I tried (mainly because I was confident that one of them actually was the right key) but none of them worked.
Vending machine locks and keys are actually quite complex and varied.
About the case you talked that you lost the original key.
How difficult/expensive to change the lock? Trying to make the key from the lock sounds more expensive but I am clueless.
