How To Drill Out Door Lock

These type of pins are made out of hardened steel so that they are harder than the drill bit.

How to drill out door lock.

Drill out the lock cylinder. Make sure drilling the lock is your only option. This ensures you don t splinter the wood on the face of the door as you blast through drilling from just one side. Get your gear together.

How to drill out a lock step 1. You ll have to get. Drilling the lock 1. Unfortunately not all locks can be drilled.

I recently bought a house my wife thought it would be a good idea to shut the door to one of the rooms. You want to drill part way into one side of the door stop and then start to drill from the other side. There is no point in drilling a lock that has anti drill pins. Don t just drill from one side.

Use a sharp drill bit that is designed for metal drilling. For security reasons some locks are specially. Understand the lock well enough to drill it properly. At the line intersection use a spade bit to drill a hole for the bolt as directed by the lock manufacturer.

This room happened to have a key ed lock on it that. Drill a hole through the lock cylinder through the guidance point. Drilling a lock will thoroughly destroy it. 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.

This destroys the pins inside the lock cylinder. Aim the drill into the area just above the keyway. Feel the drill work and try not to work too quickly or press too hard as this may jam or break the drill bit. With the hole centerline marked out it s time to drill.

Switch to a slightly larger bit. 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.