How to unlock a jammed door lock
Stuck Door from Knob Failure
well hello folks here we are again with
another teeny-tiny technical video from
nois LLC that is we I got up this
morning I went to open the door to let
the dogs out and the door didn't open so
here I've got two little dougie 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 then finally at least two
brain cells kicked in and I said hey the
knobs turning actually said levered not
a dog the knobs turning but the door is
not unlatching so here's my little story
on now what took place and how I fixed
it okay yourself fix-it project I went
to open the back door and the only thing
that happened is the handle just turns
but it doesn't pull the latching pin
back so I can't get the mechanism to
pull back 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
just impossible the crack is so small
and you can't do this before if you have
to pull both of those pins back at the
same time or if you pull the little
my pen back in the house too so at this
point I've reached my limit I'm going to
tear this thing apart right here and see
if I can separate this just turns let me
show you how this works so that you know
go through all the same out of here all
I did was 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 not
let this these things release out of
here all these little pieces were inside
so when you pull this apart 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 jimmied up
where I was trying to get it 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 they retract their
pins right here all right so it was
slipping over them because they had
gotten too bent 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 ginseng 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
again 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 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 take the handles off alright 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 so then you can
get it out of course unscrew these from
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
well planning or not you gotta fix
things when they're broken if they're
causing you great deal of difficulty
which is certainly the case in this case
because you gotta be able to get in and
out of the back door wise you gotta 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 at the local hardware
store and I got a new a quick set 35
bucks worth
and I examined it very carefully before
I purchased it and it's much better
engineered doesn't have the two little
isolated prongs that engage the little
bent fingers like the piece of junk I
took out of there so it's much better
much better
design that's better built I paid five
bucks to have the thing rekey so I could
use my existing home keys and put it in
it works great 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
stuck and you can't open your door maybe
you 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
