Black Box Chinese Handcuffs 04 High Security

These are the handcuffs that The Handcuff Shop sells as his Blackbox handcuffs 04. It is not known exactly what brand and model they are. But you know where to find them if you want to buy a pair. They apparently fit in the Blackbox, which is a box placed over chain-link handcuffs to make them rigid and allow them to be connected securely to a belly chain. I do not have a blackbox.

They are very close to a Yuil handcuff, but they have no anti-shim flaps and unlike Yuil, these have mirrored sides which means the keyholes face the same direction!! Most modern handcuffs have this design. It really bugs me when handcuffs have one keyhole facing your body and one facing outwards, strikes me as unprofessional and lazy since they couldn't be bothered to make two separate bracelet sides. So these are nice in that regard!

They have a decent weight to them, are very shiny but there is a small drawback. The first click or two do not work. The depth of the teeth are not sufficient to get a proper and secure click. But it is unlikely you'd ever need to  have cuffs THAT large anyway. Once you have gotten 3 clicks inwards, they are secure. While they do not open as far as a "superior" or oversized cuff, they do have some more lateral room, to where they are more round, so you can spin your hands around like you can with a TCH 840 speedcuff, which I am unable to do with a standard pair of Peerless or Smith & Wesson.

They are pretty comfortable and the shiny finish adds to the level of comfort I think in some odd way.

Normal keys DO NOT WORK...You must use the keys you get with them, use a Delta Key (from law industries or Oscar Delta), a custom TOOOL Ultimate Handcuff Key or at least cut a split in one of your own keys. *** Correction.... *** BRITISH KEYS DO WORK but standard Peerless and S&W keys do not work. I suppose British TCH keys do not poke out as far... So normal BRITISH keys (and any key which does not poke out too far inside the cuff) will open them according to my experience with these cuffs.

Disengaging the double lock feels a big gritty and I have to turn the key back and turn again sometimes, but over all I do like them. I am looking to get a non-expensive high security pair to keep separately for a SHTF situation, but I am not quite sure if I would want to rely on these to fulfil a role of actually securing a criminal breaking in. They seem that they'd be good, but I have more faith in western handcuffs, even those made in Taiwan/China which have been designed and manufactured adequately to US standards. There's nothing wrong with Chinese handcuffs, but with the fact that this pair has 2 pointless teeth on the pawl, they essentially act as a 1 tooth pawl, when they should have all 3 working... Disappointing.

They are "ok", I just would not want to rely on them in a genuine "I need to secure a criminal" capacity. I'd love to buy another pair of Chicago X22, but sourcing them might be too costly when I can't get another video out of the same pair.

Enjoy.

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🇨🇳 ANHUA HC-01 Chinese Police Handcuffs (Still high security!) WWI Design

These are the Chinese ANHUA HC-01 handcuffs. They are a reproduction of a popular WWI ( World War 1 ) era American handcuff called H&R Super 123 by Harrington & Richardson Arms company in the 1930's. The original H&R handcuffs were very much ahead of their time and high security (even by modern standards), with a swing-through design, a double lock and I believe they also had the ditch and peg system that most modern cuffs have which grab the arm and hold it in place to prevent a strong person pulling outwards to pull the teeth away from the mechanism. The American FBI preferred to use them because of their higher security.

Over all I would say, from pictures I have seen, the original H&R models were a little bit better manufacturing quality, however these Chinese reproductions are more than adequate and have very good security.

These cannot be shimmed, because while most modern handcuffs have a pawl lever which just needs to be pressed down, these Anhua handcuffs have a gear wheel or cog which has to turn, so you cannot shim them, even if they are single locked. Ingenious!

Their wrist size capacity isn't too bad either, if I can get my hands in when they are locked on their largest setting, I am impressed and these do.

They have a double lock for added safety and security. The double lock is disengaged and the single lock opened all in the same turning rotation, making unlocking them easy.

Keep the keys safe! You only get 2 keys and they are not like any other handcuff key I have ever seen or had in my collection!!! I have been unable to pick them too...

One thing I will say is sometimes when you remove the key, you accidentally double lock them, so it's best to pull the key out while you have it turned to undo the single lock, that way they can swing-through when you need to apply them to someone next time without having to use the key first.

High Security Handcuffs - Chinese Police, ANHUA Model HC-021W with Wafer Locks

These are the ANHUA HC-021W handcuffs as used by Chinese authorities for high risk detainees. From http://www.cuffsland.com

These were inspired by the very expensive and well built TCH Model HSH1 which are extremely hard to find and three times the cost of these ones that China uses.

These handcuffs are decent. High security, yes. Although the finishing quality is not particularly good. They do cut into your skin if you start struggling. Maybe that is a Chinese design feature for the kinds of people who are usually in them :) I do not know this.

I wax polished them as I do all my cuffs and I have filed these slightly although it only marginally helps.

People mistakenly say these handcuffs have a pin tumbler lock on the top for the double lock. This is in fact incorrect. The double locking mechanism uses a wafer lock consisting of 4 wafers.

I think the quality over all could be a bit higher but I suppose if you want super high quality, pay through the nose and import some expensive TCH HSH1. These Anhua handcuffs do the job. They are highly secure. If you actually have the specific key to the pair of cuffs you have on, you can (if you are just nimble enough and they aren't too tight) use the double locking key to then allow yourself to use a standard key to open the normal mechanism.

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