Flip Kwikset left-hand lock knob to right-hand keyhole reversal

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LOL I ran out of a blank a couple months ago and stopped in a Home Depot for it. It took 20 minutes to find somebody "trained on keys" then another 10 to find somebody "trained" well enough "on keys" to find it (actually let me find it) without one to physically compare it to. Then alot of confusion about how anybody could do anything useful with just a keyblank (no I'm not kidding). If you are a homeowner and want a basic F lock Home Depot is as good a place as any to get it but if you want technical expertise.................

Even if Home depot had somebody who could do it LOL the average retail customer doesn't know anything about it until they realize something doesn't look right. If Kwikset didn't suck they would just include instructions and a tool for people who buy their retail product which, yeah, I know, I already harped on.

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Forget it. He doesn't know. First he said couldn't be done with screwdriver had to have a special tool. Then he said OK jewelers screwdrivers as long as you have two and they are precisley engineered for the purpose bla bla bla. Now he'll say one is Ok as long as it's a screwdriver made especially for working on those super high tech kwikset locksets that require all those special tools. You'd think it was the guidance system on the damn space shuttle he was talking about. Anyway, he doesn't care about damaged clips any more than he cared about ghost keys in that masterkey system he posted about or somebody getting electrocuted when they touch their AC unit or somebody's house blowing up from the gas leak he created when he 'fixed' their furnace. As long as nobody figures out he screwed it up, or at least as long as they can't prove it in court he's happy.

Speaking of the space shuttle: Chris did you by chance moonlight putting insulating foam on the booster tanks used on that thing a couple years ago?

Because it will then be backwards with respect to the latch mechanism.

It's good and reversing the lock cylinder is a 30 second operation if you know how so it's not that big a deal for anybody who does many of them.

The pins are supposed to be up. It's been discussed to death already but the short answer is if they are down they will collect debris. A broken spring will also cause a lockout. In practice it will work for a long time pins down backwards or not and if the OP hasn't figured out how to reverse it yet they should just leave it like that.

I'll be damned, you're right.

That must mean that there's a whole lot of crappy installs out there, because I can think of at least 3x off the top of my head that I've had to do the card trick and was able to pull it off in less than a minute. Once at a house I used to live in and at least twice on a big, heavy fire-rated door at a place I used to work. In fact, every time I've

*needed* to get in a door, I've been able to.

The Weiser locks on my current house do appear to be resistant to "carding" as well as the metal weatherstrip would make it that much more difficult.

nate

I used to like schlage alot, hell I use "a series" on my house. Don't like the newer designs too much.

If the latch is deadlatching, you can't slip it with a credit card.

Why would you want to push the strike back? The strike is mounted wtih two screws to the door jamb.

You'd want to push the latch back.

Real credit card burglars push the latch back.

Deadlatching is one of the things most builders in my area don't understand. Also, most of my customers. I had an interesting conversation one time with a truck driver I know. He was telling me he could get into a certain building with two knives. One to pry back the deadlatch trigger, and a second knife to pry back the latch. I showed him what deadlatching was. How it worked. One of the rare moments when he didn't have much to say.

I'm wondering how many end users have that skill?

Yeah, Jim Rockfish (Rockford! Rockford!) was a pretty neat guy. I used to love that TV show.

"Just like on TV" or "just like the cops" is the reason I no longef own a flat bar for unlocking cars. I got tired of hearing that.

"I can get one of them at the auto parts store. Matter of fact, my cousin Jimmy carries one in his trunk. I oughta just call him and save all that money you're charging me."

I did get a call once from a fellow locked out of his car, about

200 feet from an auto parts store. He'd walked in, and bought himself a harpoon style Slim Jim, and worked on his own car for awhile before calling a locksmith.

I have a thumg and fingers -- and can't draw sketches of people. Neither can I perform surgery. Nor can I fly a commercial air liner.

You think something else is needed, also?

I like your comment about the ADA