How To Rekey A Storm Door Lock

If the lock body doesn t pop out easily you can also insert a screwdriver into the hole in the door and into the key mechanism to help pry it out.

How to rekey a storm door lock.

Remove the exterior doorknob or lock face. How to re key an anderson door lock. If the 2 keys can be inserted in the other locks generally they can be keyed alike with some exceptions. A viewer wanted to know how to re key a screen door cylinder so this video will look over how to change the combination to a new combination for screen door.

If they are of different profiles keyways and the assumption is that the front door baldwin is a mortise lock your local locksmith can most likely fix you up with a replacement mortise cylinder for the baldwin keyed to the anderson. Rekeying guide for kwikset or schlage cylinders. Insert the pins and reassemble the lock. Your rekeying kit may include a wire tool for this purpose or you can unbend a paper clip and insert it.

Door knobs are held in place with a clip accessed by inserting a wire into a tiny hole. Remove the lock body from the storm door by pulling down from the top of the casing with your finger or the tip of a flat head screwdriver. Remove with a small flat screwdriver the outer c ring on the new replacement exterior key cylinder and pull the cylinder tab out of the. Once the new pins are in reverse the steps to reassemble the lock.

Remove the five set screws from the bottom of the key cylinder with a 1 5mm hex wrench. Dump out the old pins insert the new key and use tweezers or small needle nose pliers to match the new colored pins to the color code on the special instruction sheet.