How to take a yale 5 tubuler apart

[Daniel]

can someone point me in the right direction, i cant find a guide

[Chucklz]

Are you trying to rekey the lock, or strip it down to one or two pin stacks?

[Daniel]

i wanna do what he just suggested

[technik]

hang on a minute,
Yale? tubular? pin stacks?

[Daniel]

i dont no lol im just starting, its a yale which 5 tubulers and a mushroom on the second and forth its for a latch. a standard front door lock.

sod it wheres my hammer

[toomush2drink]

I think you mean pins daniel, its a pin tumbler lock.

[technik]

the part your getting wrong is the 'tubular' part dude, its a pin-tumbler. Tubular locks look like this:

[Daniel]

oh i see thanks......Does anyone know how to take apart a yale pin tumbler

[HeadHunterCEO]

insewrt key into key way and rotate 90 degres clockwise.

take something like small aand strong like a dentists pick and stick it in that little hole at the neck of the lever. sometimes you have to slide back the fancy flashing to access the hole.

btw the key much remain turned while you poke the hole.

the handle should come right off.

There is prolly something you can google that will give you pics.


take the cover out of the lever

depress the pin while rotating the knurled retainer counter clockwise

[toomush2drink]

Daniel put the key in the lock then take off the clip on the back holding in the plug,slowly pull the plug out with the key in and turned then it will come apart.Caution though the springs will fly out so slowly do it or use a piece of dowel (in the abscence of shims etc) and follow the plug from the clip end with the dowel to stop the springs flying out.The pins will be in the plug and also trapped in the barrel underneath the dowel with the springs. Forget the dowel if you want to have a good look around or only put a few pins back in.Its a bit tricky putting the pins and springs back in but not too bad with some tweezers, you can hold the pin and spring down with a pick as you push the plug back in.Use a vice unless you are an octupus

Sorry if it doesnt make sense but its how i taught myself, at the end of the day have a go and beware of flying bits.

If i havent explained it right can someone please explain other methods.

toomush

[Daniel]

Thanx lol but i have no key , ill just get that bird lock (which has a key if i get stuck

[technik]

Thanx lol but i have no key

i had a feeling you were going to say that. dude, its still do-able, but you need to be able to pick the lock, and by the sounds of it, you want to take the pins out to learn. I would reccommend putting this one aside, and getting a replacement cylinder from a hardware store. Then, you can take out the pins, and work your way up. Besides, the pleasure you get from picking a lock that you attempted whilst learning and couldnt get, but now you can get far out goes the feeling of picking a lock you just bought.

[Daniel]

I cant see myself ever picking it lol. My dad has loads of old locks.

The problem is the wrench i made its crap, i used an ?allen? key. but i dont understand where to insert it

[toomush2drink]

daniel go here and download this short clip of how to pick a lock, its not detailed but will show you about the wrench. http://www.justlocks.org/cd_extracts.htm look at all of them but the manual picking wmv will show you.

toomush

[Daniel]

Cheers mate