Shooting Down A Door Lock

This simple diy trick may solve your issues.

Shooting down a door lock.

Another symptom of a potential problem with the power door lock actuators are door locks that behave erratically. If the actuators have any sort of internal or wiring issue it may cause them to rapidly lock and unlock unexpectedly or cause them to function intermittently. As with steps 1 and 2 this technique works if the door opens inward towards you. Bevel the edge at the top or bottom of a panel where the horizontal rails and vertical stiles meet plane across rather than along the grain of the stile.

Leather tends to act as a shock absorber and the flint will rebound or bounce off the face of the frizzen just at the time it is cutting into the steel and starting to shear off bits of steel at the high temperature required to ignite the priming powder below. Step 3 move a large and heavy piece of furniture in front of the door. Look up lock snapping a shot at an angle should be well capable of doing the same thing as the specialized tool does snapping the keyed cylinder in half and then all that remains is removing the broken halves and turning the latch with a bent piece of wire. How to plane the top or bottom of a door step 1.

Sand the edge smooth and slightly round the corners with a sanding block. While outright opening of doors by shooting might be difficult breaching the lock in a way that makes opening them trivial should be quite possible. Most people try to block the whole door but right below the. Place the piece of furniture as close to the opening of the door as you can.

Plane down to the scribe lines. Wrap your flints with lead not leather. Finish the edge to match the door.