How To Drill Out A Garage Door Lock

Drill out the lock cylinder.

How to drill out a garage door lock.

Put the bit into the drill and fasten the drill s chuck to keep the bit steady in position. Attach a 1 4 inch 6 5mm or larger drill bit to your drill and go through the lock again with the larger bit to break up the pins more and open the lock. Place on safety goggles and work gloves. We all have those rare or not so rare occasions where we lock ourselves out of our house.

Pick a drill bit which is sufficiently small in size to suit into the garage door lock via cylinder or even keyhole. This room happened to have a key ed lock on it that. Insert the bit into the drill and tighten the drill s chuck to hold the bit firmly in place. Understand the lock well enough to drill it properly.

I recently bought a house my wife thought it would be a good idea to shut the door to one of the rooms. Insert the drill bit into the cylinder where the key would normally go. Your garage door lock in under a minute and open. The goal is to drill through the pin tumblers not the keyway itself.

Put on safety goggles and gloves. Certain locks are not going to open as easily as others even with drilling. Use a sharp drill bit that is designed for metal drilling. These type of pins are made out of hardened steel so that they are harder than the drill bit.

4 insert the blade of a flat headed screwdriver into the lock head. Put in the drill bit into the cylinder in which the key will usually head out. There is no point in drilling a lock that has anti drill pins. How to drill different cylinder locks including very poor footage of one being drilled.

Aim the drill into the area just above the keyway. Turn the locking mechanism in the same direction as you would with a key. No special tools required just a drill and small bit.