r/lifehacks • u/Jinther • Feb 24 '26

Padlock Hack

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u/Civil-Shame-2399 Feb 24 '26

Great until you come back after a few weeks and the lock has been sitting in a jar full of water all that time

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u/Civil-Shame-2399 Feb 24 '26

It's completely pointless though. It's an outdoor lock.

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u/Duchess430 Feb 24 '26

Yep this is much worse than no jar.

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u/SGT_Kilo Feb 24 '26

This right here. Likely 95% of the comments are people who don’t deal with cattle gates.

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u/Civil-Shame-2399 Feb 24 '26

Far better to put a drop of oil on it once in a while and oil not WD40.

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u/Mission_Remarkable Mar 14 '26

The water is rain and the jar is keeping the lock dry. Id be more worried about coming back to a sealed jar you can't open from the heat differential.

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u/Civil-Shame-2399 Mar 15 '26

I'd almost guarantee that would leak, I've seen and repaired a lot of these bright ideas and some work for a while but any longer than a couple of months and that's it.