Thread: Locksmith advice needed.

Go down to the local 7-11 and tell the grots that are always hanging around outside that you'll give them 50 baht to solve the problem. They'll do it within 5 minutes with no damage to the door, handle, lock, or frame. Make sure you hide all your valuables before you let them in the house.

This approach also works when you can't find your car keys and/or your car will not start.

bobforest

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Originally Posted by Necron99

borrow LT's grinder....

It's only good for trees and part of my fucking arm.

It's also sitting on the bottom of the klong so get a cold chisel and a big fucking hammer.

Bio fucking degradable is it?

me thinks a trip to the emergency room is in your future

Don't be such a girl. Just cut it off, will take two seconds.

I would expect a thread like this from a female, but a bloke?

Get the torch out and burn it down!

Post #13 had the answer, so do it!

Originally Posted by Necron99

^ borrow LT's grinder....

Very good idea.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Originally Posted by chitown

A pipe wrench takes 2 seconds. I used to use them all the time when I would evict people from the apartment complex I owned One twist on the knob and you are in.

Wrong knob Butterfly - do not get so excited....

I knew it!

Landlord scum!

That shows the mentality of the world today! I grew up knowing full well the scum where the ones 3 months behind on the rent!!

Had this problem a couple of times at my resort, just snapped the knob of with a sledgehammer, and replaced the locks.

Originally Posted by chitown

One twist on the knob and you are in.

wrong thread

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Landlord scum!

hey, watch out!

people are lucky they get locks

I hope theres noone starving to death in there!!

Lube the key right up and stick it the key hole a lightly tap the key up & down in & out or better yet if you have something that vibrates on the key in the hole. doing this whilst gently rocking the nob from left to right.
Once you can free up the locking pins in the barrel or make them jump to line up if the key is badly worn down.

good point, best to make sure you have the right key then try to get the lock to work

it may just have a stuck pin or lever

Right.

Well drilling it was a load of wank. Broke 3 drill bits and then the bastard still wouldn't open.

In the end I decided "fuck it" and whacked the fucker off with a hammer. Job done.

Should have used a thermonuclear hand grenade from the start



its the only way to be sure

Originally Posted by Gerbil

Broke 3 drill bits

skill

^ nah. Shitty Chinese drill bits.

what size tooth picks were you using ?

maybe you should have borrowed some drill bits from beer lao drinker

next time use drill bits designed to drill steel and not wood... scrub that just go to homebase, ask them for some of this stuff. removes locks and other obstructions quickly

Originally Posted by gusG

Had this problem a couple of times at my resort, just snapped the knob of with a sledgehammer, and replaced the locks.

Originally Posted by Gerbil

Right.

Well drilling it was a load of wank. Broke 3 drill bits and then the bastard still wouldn't open.

In the end I decided "fuck it" and whacked the fucker off with a hammer. Job done.

Told you so.

Of course, I neglected to mention battering the fucker off to my wife and am allowing her to think the drill worked.

She has now been telling all the neighbours about it, who in turn think I must have been some bank robber / safe cracker.

Just think if you just followed my advice, they would all think you were some insane bomb maker not to be fucked with rather than some petty criminal

but why so shy about admitting to your better half that on occasions the application of extreme violence works very well.