This wouldn’t even work in a movie
For those of you who have read my previous postings, you know I like to reminisce about the lock picking methods shown in movies and televisions most of us saw growing up. While opening locks with a credit card is plausible, the video I came across today is just not possible. The idea is that one can use a cut open aluminum soda can to trace and cut out a copy of a regular key. The person in the video proceeds to trace and cut out the replica key and later is able to use the cut out to open a lock.
From what I have seen on aluminum cans, there is no way that this would work. The metal is much too thin and flimsy to do it the way the video instructs. Even if you did manage to cut out an accurate trace of the key, the metal is much to flimsy to be able to turn it inside of a lock. Maybe it would work if you folded the aluminum sheet over a few times to where it would have the actual thickness of a house key, but even then the aluminum would most likely still be very flimsy.
