How do you pick those simple locks found on bathroom doors?

by **dumbguy** » 27 Jan 2004 2:40

Help me out here, they're the locks that aren't really locks, they're just a small hole in the outside of the door, you stick something in them and unlock them somehow. Please help, dont have any key or any idea. Thanks.

by **marso** » 27 Jan 2004 3:58

Call a locksmith, use slim jims, shovit or whatever or find a work around to the locking mech. Not here to save you from your own stupidity. If you want to learn locks I got time for you, if you want to save a few dollars, too bad.

by **Liquibyte** » 27 Jan 2004 9:20

Use one of the larger jewelers screwdrivers or a small piece of metal that is long, flat and about 1/8" wide.

by **Chucklz** » 27 Jan 2004 9:54

On Schlage/clones just push something into the hole. On Kwikset, push a small screw driver into the hole and then turn. The question is how could you lock your bathroom with these locks? When properly installed .....ahem. I think thats the answer...... Its dang near impossible to lock an empty room.

by **Nose_Picker** » 27 Jan 2004 13:27

Chucklz,

You can turn the locking mechanism on the inside, and then cloose the door. This locks the door, and then you will need to 'pick' it to open it.

I know this because on several occasions, I wanted to torment my brother, and I locked him out of the bathrooms, and then went out to a movie, or the store or just over to a friends place, and then went home and he would say something about the door being locked, and I'd say thats weird, and go get a wire coathanger, bend the tip, push straight, and hit the release plate, and voila, im in, then i'd bend the hanger back, and put it back in a nearby closet, and tell him it wasnt locked, it was probably just stuck.

Im mean, lol.

by **Chucklz** » 27 Jan 2004 16:14

Thats simply horrible of you. Your brother never investigated ?

by **Nose_Picker** » 27 Jan 2004 17:41

I consider my brother to be subhuman.

He trys to solve everything with violence, and has never been able to grasp that intelligent conversation cal solve all of lifes problems.

He prefers hitting things/people/me so I outsmart him, and torture him in every way possible.

He is too stupid to even think that the hole may be a viable access point to the locking mechanisms, so it serves him right.

Im a bad man.

by **Chucklz** » 27 Jan 2004 17:50

In that case, I would say you would be a good man.

by **Nose_Picker** » 27 Jan 2004 18:02

He prefers violence, and I think there is too much of that in this world.

If we could all get along like regular, civilised people, then this world would rock.

Why would you want to punch somone when you could actually solve an issue?

hitting doesnt solve it. It just prevents the issue from being discussed further.

He attempted to fight me over a small part of Gone in 60 seconds, hahaha.

The part where they boost the Escalade, he said it was a navagator, and I prooved him wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt, but he still insisted it was a navagator, and then he said "You wanna fight about it". I left and called him a moron.

by **Chucklz** » 27 Jan 2004 18:10

Does he have comments on your picking style?

by **ace4_00** » 22 Feb 2004 20:27

i know that my bathroom door, with a lock like the one you described, opens with an alan wrench.

by **Mad_Gouki** » 4 Mar 2004 19:23

i have seen 2 forms of these... one, like the ones the house i live in now has... require you to turn a small thing inside the handle to unlock it...
the other has the release plate thing...
both are simple to unlock

the release plate one (where you push the button to lock it) can be opened with an allen wrench, or a fork, anything you can poke in there, coat hanger...

the other type, i have found can really only be opened with a fork... you have to bend one of the fork prongs up at a 90 degree angle fromt he rest of them(or down), and then insert it into the hole and find the right rotation and the exact spot to twist to unlock it, simple tho.

the fork is the ultimate bathroom door unlocker... or so it would seem

by **GrEmLiN** » 4 Mar 2004 20:12

If you don't want to ruin a perfectly good fork, you could just get a small screw driver, small enough to fit in the hole on the door.. like those used to repair glasses, or slightly larger.. they also sell these kind of keys at locksmiths, and they also come with new doorhandles of these types.

This brings me to another point: If you come to a fork in the road, pick it up.

by **Mad_Gouki** » 4 Mar 2004 20:18

GrEmLiN wrote:If you don't want to ruin a perfectly good fork, you could just get a small screw driver, small enough to fit in the hole on the door.. like those used to repair glasses, or slightly larger.. they also sell these kind of keys at locksmiths, and they also come with new doorhandles of these types.

This brings me to another point: If you come to a fork in the road, pick it up.

lol, i can actually still find forks that have a weird bump on one of the prongs from where my sister bent it to the side and unlocked a door and bent it back

yeah, you can kill a fork doing this, so if you use a fork, make sure its expendable

by **plot** » 4 Mar 2004 20:36

what are those things where you put a bunch of vegetables and stuff on a metal rod and bbq it, then pull it off the rod? cabotchies? something like that...

we used to use those things, and hangers, to open the bathroom locks like that.

How do you pick those simple locks found on bathroom doors?

How do you pick those simple locks found on bathroom doors?

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