well hello folks here we are again with
another teeny tiny technical video from
noah's llc that is we
i got up this morning i went to uh open
the door to let the dogs out and the
door didn't open so here i've got two
little doggies standing there jumping
around like flea on a hot brick
saying we need to go out we need to go
out and i couldn't get the door open so
at first i tried to push on it because i
thought maybe it was just stuck but um
then finally at least two brain cells
kicked in
and i said hey the knob's turning
actually it's a lever not a knob the
knob's turning but uh the door is not
unlatching
so here's my little story on
what took place and how i fixed it
okay yet another do-it-yourself fix-it
project i went to open the back door and
um the only thing that happened is the
the handle just turns but it doesn't
pull
the latching pin back
so i
pulled the handle off as you can see
and i checked this thing out
and
as you can see it
it doesn't do much of anything it
doesn't pull the handle back it doesn't
do
anything
all right so i'm stuck i can't open the
door
i can't get the mechanism to pull back
so
i'm gonna go outside and see if i can't
uh jimmy it from the outside
well i've been out here for about the
last 20 minutes trying to jimmy this
thing with a couple little skinny knives
because this is one of those that has a
double pin it's got a little front pin
and then the main uh latch part that
goes into the jamb
and this is just impossible the crack is
so small and you can't wedge this very
well and i don't know because i've never
tried to do this before
if you have to pull both of those pins
back at the same time or if you pull the
little front pin back and then the
back main
pin i don't know
and i don't have another lock like this
in the house to uh
do a little experiment on
so at this point i've reached my limit
i'm gonna tear this thing apart right
here and see if i can separate this
and then look down in there to see if i
can grab whatever pulls the pins back
because obviously it's broken
right the damned handle just turns um
very aggravating
uh and it's just really hard to work
down in here so
worst comes the worst i'm going to get
my sawzall i'm gonna cut the thing out
of there
i hope i don't know okay i got it out
let me show you how this works so that
you don't go through all the same stupid
trouble i did trying to get this out of
here
because all i did was uh when it was in
the door i just reached through the hole
because the handles are out of course
and i bent this pin out and this pin out
and that let this these things release
out of here all these little pieces were
inside so when you pull this apart
if i can
get this apart
it kind of falls apart this is the part
that actually pulls
this back you can see how it's all
gemmied up where i was trying to get it
on loose with my little knives
but
those little
pins right there
right there and right there
engage with
these pins right here
and you can see they're bent
and so what was happening was when i
turned the handle which turns these
things right like this
it wasn't engaging
the retractor pins right here
right so it was slipping over them
because they had gotten bent
um i don't i don't know that's the first
time i've ever taken one of these apart
so i don't know if this is a cheapy
chintzy piece of junk
or if they're all built this way
but if you end up with the same kind of
problem where the handle just turns and
it doesn't pull the pin back to let you
open the door
don't waste your time trying to jimmy
this
because they used to do this with credit
cards you could push a credit card back
behind this thing
and it would go back but now that
they've got these both of these
spring-loaded things here
see this one has to be pulled back in
order to get this one to pull back
uh it's a complete waste of time so
unless you're a burglar or something i
guess and get trying to get in from the
outside
uh if you're the
homeowner and this happens to you take
the handles off
right
go outside
take a pair of pliers bend these two
things this whole mechanism comes apart
and then you can just pull this
to get the
thing to retract
all right so then you can get it out
of course unscrew these from the edge of
the door
the whole thing comes out it's really
very simple i wasted about a half an
hour and gave myself a terrible headache
trying to jimmy this with a couple of
these really skinny little knives it's
complete waste of time
just go in and tear the stupid thing
apart
and then throw it in the trash and get
something
a little bit better quality i hope
yet another fix it thing i wasn't
planning to do
well planning or not you got to fix
things when they're broken if uh they're
causing you a great deal of difficulty
which is uh certainly the case in this
case because
you got to be able to get in and out of
the back door otherwise you got to walk
all the way around to the front of the
house not too cool especially when it's
raining and it's been raining out here a
lot
so i went down to the local hardware
store and i got a new quick set 35 bucks
worth
and i examined it very carefully before
i um
purchased it um and it's much better
engineered doesn't have the two little
um
isolated prongs that engage the little
bent fingers like the uh piece of junk i
took out of there
so it's much better much better uh
design much better built
i paid five bucks to have the thing
re-keyed so i could use my existing home
keys
and put it in
it works great um
i guess you get what you pay for i don't
remember what i paid for that little
piece of junk but whatever it was it
wasn't worth it so if you get uh stuck
and you can't open your door maybe
you've got a lock set that's uh kind of
gone south on you
so now you know don't get the cheapy
kind look in the package before you buy
it