# Pry bars **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pry-bars/846318 "2020-01-12T19:34:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pry-bars/846318/1 "2020-01-12T19:34:53Z")
I have 6 or 7 pry bars but needed a different one for a job. Know how many pry bars Home Depot has on display? 35! And there are larger more specialized ones in the roofing and concrete department. They have a new tool named the Air Shim that is called an “inflatable pry bar” and I can think of lots of times it would have come in handy: > **[Calculated Industries #1190 Air Shim Inflatable Pry Bar and Leveling Tool; 300...](https://www.amazon.com/Calculated-Industries-1190-Inflatable-Contractor-Grade/dp/B015CJEHZM)** > > Calculated Industries #1190 Air Shim Inflatable Pry Bar and Leveling Tool; 300 LB Rating; Contractor-Grade Alignment Pump Wedge - - Amazon.com Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pry-bars/846318/2 "2020-01-12T20:03:39Z")
Locksmiths use a thing like that to get into cars where the keys are locked inside. Don’t ask me how I know this. (I own a slim jim, but it’s inside the car:smack:) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pry-bars/846318/3 "2020-01-12T20:26:41Z")
There is also the Rapid Access Tool which looks like it would be particularly attractive to burglars: > ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pry-bars/846318/4 "2020-01-12T21:13:02Z")
Cool. Here is a different kind of Rapid Access Tool. The video tells all. [https://www.rapidaccesstool.com/mobile/products/](https://www.rapidaccesstool.com/mobile/products/) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pry-bars/846318/5 "2020-01-12T22:32:21Z")
You weirdos would get a huge kick out of the [Lock Picking Lawyer’s](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ/playlists) Youtube channel. The man is seriously good at picking virtually any lock. It was recommended to me while I was planning a heist and I continue to watch from time to time as a soothing sleeping aide. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pry-bars/846318/6 "2020-01-12T23:02:49Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Cool. Here is a different kind of Rapid Access Tool. The video tells all. > [https://www.rapidaccesstool.com/mobile/products/](https://www.rapidaccesstool.com/mobile/products/) IANALocksmith or burglar or EMT, but that ad seems a little deceptive. At about 14 seconds in, the person uses the tool to open a steel door that has a spring latch and a deadbolt. But it looks like there is no hole, or box, for the deadbolt to go into in the door jamb. That is, it looks like a dummy deadbolt put on to imply the tool, a version of the old “open with a piece of celluloid or credit card trick,” can open deadbolts as well. I may be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pry-bars/846318/7 "2020-01-12T23:06:01Z")
That dude is really good. I like some of the specialty tools. Here is a neat one: https://www.youtube.com/embed/oPiCgf4U6oE?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLpIvUbO_777y3bRSAKeh4Tq_I9TxbbAm4&start=0 ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pry-bars/846318/8 "2020-01-12T23:12:54Z")
I agree with **Kropotkin**. Most modern spring latches have a pin that prevents the credit card trick. That tool looks like they have just developed a better version of the credit card. I can’t tell (from the video) how it would bypass a deadbolt or a \*\*properly installed \*\*spring latch. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pry-bars/846318/9 "2020-01-13T14:58:20Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > That dude is really good. I like some of the specialty tools. Here is a neat one: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPiCgf4U6oE&list=PLpIvUbO\_777y3bRSAKeh4Tq\_I9TxbbAm4&index=29&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPiCgf4U6oE&list=PLpIvUbO_777y3bRSAKeh4Tq_I9TxbbAm4&index=29&t=0s) Glad you liked it. I’m not a gun enthusiast but he seems to be one and he’s got some videos where he [opens a lock with a 50 caliber gun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2l4PVJkhzQ).