Put on safety glasses.
Opening a locked door by drilling.
This hole is plugged with a steal rod and ground off flush.
Tape the lock template to the door positioned so that it is square or aligned with the door edges.
This process drills through the driver pins and key pins at the shear line to allow the plug to rotate freely and unlock a door without a key.
Focusing on the door.
When opening a safe by drilling the safe s lock body is destroyed and the safe lock will need to be replaced.
When a replacement lock can be found then the lock can be drilled open.
Pull the hanger toward you and as it pulls on the latch forcing it to retract the knob should turn and the door should open.
I recently bought a house my wife thought it would be a good idea to shut the door to one of the rooms.
This room happened to have a key ed lock on it that.
This won t work if the jamb blocks the gap between the door.
Get the proper equipment.
The tools required for drilling a lock are an electric or battery powered drill a drill bit a suitable lubricant and a screwdriver.
A drill may seem like and extreme way to open your locked door but you more than likely put your doorknob on with a drill and if your home safe has a master lock on it that you managed to shut before realizing you left the key inside.
A locksmith should not leave the property without fixing or replacing a lock that they have broken.
Attach a 1 8 inch 3mm drill bit to your.
By drilling the lock the security will be defeated.
Drilling without replacing the hardware will result in an unacceptable gap in home security.
How to drill door lock openings 1.
Since you re using a pretty primitive method to get the lock open you won t need many.
Tap a nailset with a hammer over the center of the template holes and into the door faces and the side edge of the.
Some tubular locks have a center pin made of hardened steel while others have a ball bearing in.