squelchtone wrote:your knob may have a plate tightly pressed into the back which can be popped off making a much larger hole in the back for the cylinder to be removed, or it is possible that the bible on your cylinder has T pins and a spring cap that can be compressed allowing the cylinder to be pushed out of the back of the knob. is the hole on the back of the knob a perfect circle or does it have a flat part on one side?
Look at page 7 of this Schlage rekeying manual and see if yours will do the same:
http://consumer.schlage.com/Project%20D ... 13-325.pdfPage 18 shows how to undo a cover on the back of the knob:
http://consumer.schlage.com/Project%20D ... 13-325.pdfgood luck, hope someone else from down under can chime in and help you later today,
Squelchtone
Hello,
Thanks a lot for help. You have no idea how much I appreciate it.
Basically, when you pop the handle off the door (using a pin or something sharp) there is a circular hole through which you can see the cylinder.
The hole just contains the cylinder. If it was a few millimetres larger then the cylinder would easily fall out.
Anyway, those pdfs do look similar to my lock. Thank you SO MUCH for them! Maybe my alignment is just wrong... But I've tried so hard to try and get the cylinder out. I might try again.
But I would seriously love some advice from people who have worked with these Lane locks before so that I have some reassurance of the right thing to do.
Thanks again