ILCO DEADBOLT LOCK TWO CYLINDER HOW TO

ILCO DEADBOLT LOCK TWO CYLINDER HOW TO

So, rstripe, other than removing the screws from the back of the lock, I have no idea of exactly how to proceed. Of course, I have no idea if that makes the slightest difference! But as much as I appreciated your brief description of what's involved in dealing with a loose cylinder in a deadbolt lock, since I'm a complete novice when it comes to locks, do you know where I can get much more detailed, step-by-step instructions on tightening a loose cylinder in a deadbolt lock? By the way, I just checked- my lock is a Segal, not a Yale. I'm glad to be disabused of that false notion, so I've dismissed what I learned about set screws in the video on the much simpler, edge-of-the-door, non-deadbolt lock. It didn't seem possible and now you've indicated that evidently it's not possible, and set screws are not used. So last night I was trying to visualize how the set screws could be inside the lock, perpendicular to the cylinder at both ends of it (toward the inside of the door and toward the outside of it) to hold it in place, and yet still be accessible to a screwdriver. And a screwdriver will have direct and easy access to the edge of a door when it is open.īut of course a deadbolt cylinder lock doesn't operate by using the edge of the door, but the back of the door. It's easy to understand the reason they can use set screws in a simple cylinder lock whose plate is on the edge of the door: when you remove the plate, you can see that the inside and outside parts of the cylinder can be held in place with screws that are perpendicular to the motion of the door (and to the surface of the edge of the door), so if you tighten the screws they will clamp down on the cylinder.

When I was lying in bed last night, trying to get to sleep, I was struggling to figure out how the set screws in a deadbolt cylinder lock would possibly be positioned to do their job and still be accessible to a screwdriver.

Hi rstripe, thank you for your incredibly informative post. If you could include a picture showing the inside of a deadbolt lock and exactly where the set screws are, that would be terrific! I really know absolutely nothing about locks, so any relevant information will be appreciated. But before I remove the back of the lock, I'd like to know exactly where I'll find the set screws, and also any other information that I ought to know. So I assume that, similarly, there are at least two set screws in a single cylinder deadbolt lock (one for the outside part and one for the inside) and all I have to do is tighten them. Of course that's not the kind of lock that I have, but I watched the video anyway, thinking I could pick up some tips even though it wasn't a deadbolt lock, and I did in fact learn something important: the man in the video said that a loose cylinder problem involves the set screws becoming loose and the fix is simply to tighten them. I checked YouTube for a video that dealt with this situation but all I could find was a video on a loose cylinder lock where the edge of the door is involved. Here's the situation: my single cylinder deadbolt front door lock is loose, on both the outside and now the inside too. Hi! I know my problem is easy to resolve, but before I do anything I want to verify that I'm on the right track in what I think, and to get a few details that would be helpful.

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