🚨🇺🇸 ASP model 100 Red Training Handcuffs with Slip Pawls (factory gimmicked)

These are the old ASP model 100 polymer overmold training handcuffs. They are designed to facilitate training and safety by the person wearing them having the ability to pull them off. I LOVE gimmicked handcuffs for messing around doing lock picking etc.

However I found it odd that they would leave the double lock functionality intact...!?! Whenever I, myself, gimmick a handcuff, I always do my best to deactivate the double lock to ensure only the single lock functions. When people training to apply handcuffs, they have to learn to use the double lock and when they do during training, the wearer cannot pull the cuffs off. So... not sure why they wouldn't just simulate the double lock feature but just not have it actually double lock. But that's just me.

The best way to pull these off of your wrists is to ensure they are applied in a normal somewhat snug nature. Let me explain. The bow of handcuffs moves in a rotational fashion, not linear. So if you have them on too loose and you pull down, you are trying to put a linear downward force, which will spread the force between the boss rivets (which the bow is attached to) and the teeth mating. So this will lead to increased pain and discomfort because you will be trying to use a lot more force to try and get them open. But if you put them at a comfortably tight setting and then twist your wrists out, it's efficiently putting your force into the right part of the mechanism to get them open.

What I have done since recording, is take some JB Weld Steel Stik epoxy putty to make tiny "door stops" for the hidden section of the double lock. So once I re-insert the lock-sets, the double lock won't engage because the space it needs to move outwards into, has some shaped hard epoxy putty I can slip in or remove if I want to make the double lock work again. So now there is zero chance of them double locking. This is good if you want to put the training locks in a normal set of ASP for single lock picking or as a costume prop, because if anyone puts them on, nobody can troll the wearer by double locking them to get them "stuck". If you would like me to make a video demonstrating this double lock deactivation "door stop" let me know.

These are in pretty good condition, no obvious cracking in the polymer. They are basically a yellow security cuff but with the only difference that the pawl's teeth are angled on both sides to allow the bow to pull open rather than only push closed.

Enjoy!

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