{"id":32344,"date":"2018-10-12T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=32344"},"modified":"2018-10-12T09:08:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T16:08:13","slug":"master-lock-speed-dial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/master-lock-speed-dial\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Lock Speed Dial"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a year ago I bought a Master Lock Speed Dial<\/a> ($8) for a pretty niche set of reasons, however it was such a perfect fit for my problem I feel it deserves inclusion into the Cool Tools oeuvre. <\/p>\n

My glasses got scratched at the gym as I\u2019d balanced them on the door to the shower cubicle and they fell onto the hard non-slip floor. Why\u2019d I have my glasses in the shower? Well, I needed them to use the combination lock on my locker. This lead me to the realisation I needed a keyless and glasses free padlock solution. <\/p>\n

The Master Lock Speed dial uses directions instead of numbers. It has a thumb stick which registers ups, downs, lefts and rights in order to unlock it; which can easily be done without 20\/20 sight. You can set the combination to be any length you want and once you have it memorised it is hugely satisfying to Konami-code<\/a> the shackle free in less than a second. <\/p>\n

Although there are now fingerprint scanning options for padlocks, the idea of a lock that needs charging seems ridiculous to me. Not to mention the significant cost. <\/p>\n

I can’t speak to how exactly secure this lock is. I’m sure it wouldn’t present a huge challenge to hobbyist lockpickers and shim carriers. However in a reasonably busy locker-room where everyone else is either using padlocks from a vending machine, locks that came free with luggage, or no lock at all, it is more than secure enough for my purposes. The process to change the combination is a little convoluted but there are plenty of instructional videos out there if the manual leaves you with questions. When looking up the Amazon link I was dumbfounded to see that it has very polarised reviews. I’ve never had any issues at all and any time I’ve messed up the combination a simple double squeeze on the shackle is enough to reset the lock. It really is the best padlock I’ve owned and I would never go back any other kind of combination lock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Faster combination entry than a standard combination lock <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32346,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32344\/revisions\/32346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}