How To Drill Out Door Lock

Drill out the lock cylinder.

How to drill out door lock.

Get your gear together. I recently bought a house my wife thought it would be a good idea to shut the door to one of the rooms. Drilling a lock will thoroughly destroy it. This ensures you don t splinter the wood on the face of the door as you blast through drilling from just one side.

These type of pins are made out of hardened steel so that they are harder than the drill bit. Understand the lock well enough to drill it properly. With the hole centerline marked out it s time to drill. Aim the drill into the area just above the keyway.

Unfortunately not all locks can be drilled. This destroys the pins inside the lock cylinder. How to drill different cylinder locks including very poor footage of one being drilled. At the line intersection use a spade bit to drill a hole for the bolt as directed by the lock manufacturer.

Use a sharp drill bit that is designed for metal drilling. You want to drill part way into one side of the door stop and then start to drill from the other side. How to drill out a lock step 1. Feel the drill work and try not to work too quickly or press too hard as this may jam or break the drill bit.

The goal is to drill through the pin tumblers not the keyway itself. Don t just drill from one side. There is no point in drilling a lock that has anti drill pins. This room happened to have a key ed lock on it that.

For security reasons some locks are specially. 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. Drill a hole through the lock cylinder through the guidance point.

Make sure drilling the lock is your only option. You ll have to get.