How to unlock electric meter
How-To Remove a Locked Electrical Meter
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hey youtube my instructional video on
how to take a meter off the service
panel if you are replacing your service
panel only if you are replacing your
service panel not if you are trying to
steal power illegally because that's
what legal means is not right you
shouldn't do it it's against the law and
not only is it against the law it's
extremely dangerous so proceed at your
own risk and know that I did warn you
that it is illegal and it is dangerous
now I was doing a job not too long ago
where I had to replace a service panel
for a family that lived up the road
whatever for whatever reason their meter
was locked they didn't want to pay the
power company I think was like five or
six hundred dollars to come and remove
the meter and turn off the power
whatever I did it for but theirs was
locked there there's how to lock on it
like this I'm sorry to move it over this
way
now naturally I don't work for the power
company and I don't have the proper
tools to to take this off but being the
creative contractor that I am I figured
out a way to bust this with uh without
not very good at this without needing a
special tool now I did do some research
there are some guys here on YouTube that
sell some handsome man-made tools while
all tools are my maid but some in-house
made tools for like four hundred bucks
um that's BS dude you don't need to
spend that much money it's so easy I'll
walk you through it really quick um this
little dust shield right here just cut
that off with a pair of side cutters
it's really easy it's really thin metal
um it's not attached to the actual bolt
it's attached to the housing so once you
get that cut off just go ahead and set
it aside you don't need that anymore
now the actual lock itself is designed
to spin it's designed to spin inside of
the locking mechanism the actual housing
so you're going to need some vice grips
clamps and vise grips down take a
two-inch drywall screw
or in this case as I use the deck screw
go ahead and just drive that deck screw
into the hole I know it's not going to
fit and it's you don't want it to fit if
it would flopped around freely in there
this won't work the whole point is to
get the teeth to grip into the actual
head of the pin and as you're driving
the screw into the bowl it'll spread
apart and then once the pin spreads
apart it pops right out and then as you
can see you know you're unlocked so look
you safe
don't steal power you need any help any
advice comment you can say whatever you
want about my video you can dislike it
you can like it a like would be great
but it doesn't matter to me the way
remember don't steal power it's against
the law it's not safe and good luck
