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. Drilling a lock will thoroughly destroy it. Get your gear together. Unfortunately not all locks can be drilled.

Feel the drill work and try not to work too quickly or press too hard as this may jam or break the drill bit. These type of pins are made out of hardened steel so that they are harder than the drill bit. The goal is to drill through the pin tumblers not the keyway itself. 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.

This destroys the pins inside the lock cylinder. How to drill different cylinder locks including very poor footage of one being drilled. 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. Make sure drilling the lock is your only option.

There is no point in drilling a lock that has anti drill pins. Certain locks are not going to open as easily as others even with drilling. Drill a hole through the lock cylinder through the guidance point. For security reasons some locks are specially.

This ensures you don t splinter the wood on the face of the door as you blast through drilling from just one side. Don t just drill from one side. This room happened to have a key ed lock on it that. I recently bought a house my wife thought it would be a good idea to shut the door to one of the rooms.

Drill out the lock cylinder. How to drill out a lock step 1. You want to drill part way into one side of the door stop and then start to drill from the other side. At the line intersection use a spade bit to drill a hole for the bolt as directed by the lock manufacturer.

Drilling the lock 1. Switch to a slightly larger bit.