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Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

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Re: Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

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Post by throwawaysea »

sudosysgen wrote: post #27
teruakohatu wrote: post #21

This could be a revolution in bike locks. Right now compact battery powered cutting tools can remove just about any bike lock quickly and can easily be concealed.

This is an absolutely amazing innovation, but bike thieves have already progressed to using powder-actuated pistons in order to break the internal mechanism of a lock. Much faster and easier than cutting anything.

How does that work?

Re: Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

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Post by teruakohatu »

sudosysgen wrote: post #27
teruakohatu wrote: post #21

This could be a revolution in bike locks. Right now compact battery powered cutting tools can remove just about any bike lock quickly and can easily be concealed.

This is an absolutely amazing innovation, but bike thieves have already progressed to using powder-actuated pistons in order to break the internal mechanism of a lock. Much faster and easier than cutting anything.

Maybe in YouTube videos but I have not heard of people using Ramsets to steal bike in real life. Firing a gun is a good way to get people call the cops.

Edit: I am wrong!

Re: Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

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Post by mindcrime »

sudosysgen wrote: post #27
teruakohatu wrote: post #21

This could be a revolution in bike locks. Right now compact battery powered cutting tools can remove just about any bike lock quickly and can easily be concealed.

This is an absolutely amazing innovation, but bike thieves have already progressed to using powder-actuated pistons in order to break the internal mechanism of a lock. Much faster and easier than cutting anything.

Not to mention pre-cutting bike racks themselves (and handrails, etc. that people lock their bikes to), and then putting some duct tape or something over the cut. When they get ready to take your bike they don't have to cut a thing. Just lift up the cut section, slip your chain/lock through the gap, and go.

Re: Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

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Post by catalogia »

greesil wrote: post #19

This would be great for bike locks!

I'd bet against it. It seems to hold up well against abrasive tools, but an aluminum foam with ceramic balls embedded in it doesn't sound like the recipe for an all around robust lock shackle. How would it stand up against bolt cutters (shearing cuts, not abrasive cutting), a manually operated hacksaw, or impact? A hacksaw might have the finesse to thread the gap between the ceramic.

Re: Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

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Post by sudosysgen »

throwawaysea wrote: post #31
sudosysgen wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an absolutely amazing innovation, but bike thieves have already progressed to using powder-actuated pistons in order to break the internal mechanism of a lock. Much faster and easier than cutting anything.

How does that work?

Essentially, the powder actuated piston fires a blank round and uses the pressure in order to propel a mass, that hits the lock and, assuming that the lock is restrained in the opposite direction, creates an immense force that destroys the internals of the lock and forces it open, all in less than a second.

Re: Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

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Post by sudosysgen »

teruakohatu wrote: post #33
sudosysgen wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an absolutely amazing innovation, but bike thieves have already progressed to using powder-actuated pistons in order to break the internal mechanism of a lock. Much faster and easier than cutting anything.

Maybe in YouTube videos but I have not heard of people using Ramsets to steal bike in real life. Firing a gun is a good way to get people call the cops. Edit: I am wrong!

The new Ramset guns are surprisingly quiet. Certainly, the police won't be called, and there's not much of a risk to the thief.

This is because unlike a gun, there is no need for the gases to release to the outside openly. Therefore, there is much, much less noise, and it doesn't sound like a gun at all.

Re: Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

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Post by mc32 »

teruakohatu wrote: post #21

This could be a revolution in bike locks. Right now compact battery powered cutting tools can remove just about any bike lock quickly and can easily be concealed.

Prison cells (whose rooms are cast concrete over rebar). AT machines. Vaults, safes... Lots of things. Roll-up shutter doors... fences around construction equipment.

Re: Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

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Post by mattigames »

sudosysgen wrote: post #27
teruakohatu wrote: post #21

This could be a revolution in bike locks. Right now compact battery powered cutting tools can remove just about any bike lock quickly and can easily be concealed.

This is an absolutely amazing innovation, but bike thieves have already progressed to using powder-actuated pistons in order to break the internal mechanism of a lock. Much faster and easier than cutting anything.

Locks should have a layer of explosive material inside, so firing the powder-actuated tool (PAT) may ignite the explosives and destroy the PAT itself, and it would help too by making some very strong noise so people may hear something is going on.
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