How To Drill Out Door Lock

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How to drill out door lock.

Understand the lock well enough to drill it properly. This room happened to have a key ed lock on it that. For security reasons some locks are specially. The goal is to drill through the pin tumblers not the keyway itself.

Make sure drilling the lock is your only option. These type of pins are made out of hardened steel so that they are harder than the drill bit. Feel the drill work and try not to work too quickly or press too hard as this may jam or break the drill bit. Drilling the lock 1.

Use a sharp drill bit that is designed for metal drilling. Once you ve drilled through and broken the pins you may need to insert a flat screwdriver to retract the latch and open the door. How to drill different cylinder locks including very poor footage of one being drilled. With the hole centerline marked out it s time to drill.

Certain locks are not going to open as easily as others even with drilling. Drilling a lock will thoroughly destroy it. This ensures you don t splinter the wood on the face of the door as you blast through drilling from just one side. I recently bought a house my wife thought it would be a good idea to shut the door to one of the rooms.

There is no point in drilling a lock that has anti drill pins. Drill out the lock cylinder. You want to drill part way into one side of the door stop and then start to drill from the other side. Don t just drill from one side.

For flat sided deadbolts you typically drill two overlapping 7 8 inch holes centered about 5 16 inch above and below the horizontal center line. Aim the drill into the area just above the keyway. Unfortunately not all locks can be drilled. How to drill out a lock step 1.

This destroys the pins inside the lock cylinder. You ll have to get.