Anyone want my neighbour?

[Alan Reynolds]

Got a knock on the door from the neighbour who quite frankly is a complete plonker. He apparently broke his key off in the front doo euro lock. He’s gone out and bought a new lock.
‘I can’t get it back in’ he wails, can you help me?
I goes round and am greeted with a pile of lever, bars springs and other various bits.
Starting at the top, he removed EVERY screw from top to bottom.
Upshot is it took me an hour or figure out just where the bits went before reassembly.
I then got the ‘broken lock’ and whacked it on the step to jolt the broken bit out. Simples!
He only needed to remove ‘one’ bloody screw to change it.

 

[Kayos]

But if you don't know that.....

 

[mtt.tr]

He should have Googled it

 

[slim_boy_fat]

He should have Googled it

Couldn't get in to fire up the pc....

 

[cheb]

At least he tried, still he was probably one of those unfortunates who wasn't born knowing everything.

 

[James1979]

He should have Googled it

Or posted on here and awaited a video …..

 

[brightspark]

Or posted on here and awaited a video …..

and ended up with 50 posts and 20 running off at a tangent

 

[Kayos]

and ended up with 50 posts and 20 running off at a tangent

48 running off on a tangent

 

[Gragson]

50

 

[Lewis_RX8]

and ended up with 50 posts and 20 running off at a tangent

Probably should have just bought a lathe and remade the part

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

But if you don't know that.....

Sorry. No excuse for ignorance mate.
We all walk around with access to the sum of all human knowledge literally at our fingertips.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Sorry. No excuse for ignorance mate.
We all walk around with access to the sum of all human knowledge literally at our fingertips.

Unless we're locked out and can't access our phone/tablet/laptop or desktop pc......

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Unless we're locked out and can't access our phone/tablet/laptop or desktop pc......

If your locked out you can't disassemble the lock.

Top tip. If you snap a key in a lock. Often inserting another key from the other side will push it out enough to remove the broken end.

 

[Kayos]

Sorry. No excuse for ignorance mate.
We all walk around with access to the sum of all human knowledge literally at our fingertips.

I'd disagree with that, not everyone is good with technology

I know it's one screw because the first one I swapped I bought from a locksmith and asked them, before that I had no clue

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I'd disagree with that, not everyone is good with technology

I know it's one screw because the first one I swapped I bought from a locksmith and asked them, before that I had no clue

You've only got to look at a euro barrel to see how it's secured

You don't need a degree in computer science to Google how to fit a eurolock mate.

 

[Kayos]

You've only got to look at a euro barrel to see how it's secured

You don't need a degree in computer science to Google how to fit a eurolock mate.

True but some people really, really struggle with anything vaguely practical
Don't judge everyone by your standards and experience

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

True but some people really, really struggle with anything vaguely practical
Don't judge everyone by your standards and experience

If your of that nature probably best to call a locksmith instead of stripping all the locking mechanisms out of the door and expecting your neighbor to put it back together.

 

[tom2207]

You dont know what you dont know ,,,

as I often say ,,

a friend in need ,,, is a pain in the asre ...

still its nice to be nice as you just never know when things may be the other way round , actually I do know , and things never ever seem to be the other way round , and some days I get sick of being nice ,,,,
but I still fix things for folk , Im sure I will get my rewards in heaven , or maybe just get a smaller shovel if I go the other way.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

You dont know what you dont know ,,,

as I often say ,,

a friend in need ,,, is a pain in the asre ...

still its nice to be nice as you just never know when things may be the other way round , actually I do know , and things never ever seem to be the other way round , and some days I get sick of being nice ,,,,
but I still fix things for folk , Im sure I will get my rewards in heaven , or maybe just get a smaller shovel if I go the other way.

No good deed goes unpunished.

 

[DAPPH]

Got a knock on the door from the neighbour who quite frankly is a complete plonker. He apparently broke his key off in the front doo euro lock. He’s gone out and bought a new lock.
‘I can’t get it back in’ he wails, can you help me?
I goes round and am greeted with a pile of lever, bars springs and other various bits.
Starting at the top, he removed EVERY screw from top to bottom.
Upshot is it took me an hour or figure out just where the bits went before reassembly.
I then got the ‘broken lock’ and whacked it on the step to jolt the broken bit out. Simples!
He only needed to remove ‘one’ bloody screw to change it.

" Sorry mate , I can't hep you I'm not into that sort of thing ....you'll have to get a locksmith"


Because from now you'll be the bane of my life if it happens again , or you bugger something else up ....I've had neighbours like you before