This lock can certainly be picked but what if you don t know how or you don t have anything on hand that can serve as a good lock pick.
How to drill a door for a mortise lock.
In the early days the pocket was cut out using a brace and bit.
Make a series of closely spaced cuts into the mortise area.
Carefully remove the timber inside the lines using the same technique as for the door latch.
Use the chisel to deepen the outline marks.
Make a series of.
It is not a difficult procedure and all you really need is a power drill with the appropriate bits and maybe.
It will show you how you can drill out the stump of a mortice lock allowing you to get past the lock entirely.
Use a 7 8 inch spade bit to drill two partially overlapping 5 8 inch deep holes centered above and below the midpoint inset.
To install a mortise lock into a wood or composite door requires a pocket drilled into the edge of the door with the centerline of the door prep at 39 3 16 above the finished floor.
Hold the strike plate over the mortise and score its outline with a utility knife.
Remove the keep and drill a 16mm hole about 10mm deep.
That s what this video is here for.
Step 11 install the strike plate photo by david carmack.
Push the keep on and mark a pencil line all the way round the hole inside for the latch.
Transfer the positions of the top and bottom of the mortise lock body to the edge of the door.
Trace the outline of the area.
Mark the area around the strike plate that you want to install flush with the wood.
Use the 10mm chisel to square the hole up cutting at the top and bottom first.
Create the mortise using a router attachment remove the wood between the pencil lines drawn on the door edge to create a mortise for the faceplate.
You want to drill part way into one side of the door stop and then start to drill from the other side.
Drill the holes for the spindle and keyhole make the spindle hole at least as big as the spindle boss of the lock for the keyhole drill the top hole and cut out the shape using a thin pad saw.
Fit the latch and faceplate into the door.
Square up the sides of the mortise with a chisel if necessary.
With the large hole cut it s now time to drill the small 1 inch hole in the edge of the door.
Use a bevel edge chisel and hammer to square the corners of the mortise if the faceplate has square corners.