How do I remove the Cylinder from a Basic Kwikset Lock?

[Operator]

I'm new to lockpicking, and I recently bought my first set of lock picks.

I now needed a lock I can practice on by removing/adding pins and attempting to pick.

I bought this basic $10 doorknob from Home Depot today.

Can anyone help me remove the cylinder?

Here's pictures of it, its packaging, and a serial number from the installation instructions:
This should be the first image:


This should be the second image:


And this should be the 3rd Image:

[Darkness1569]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGenT_T0lRc

It is a diffrent model but it removes the same way.

[Altashot]

Great video! Although the Quikset tool used in the video is easy to get or fabricate, you can use two small slotted screwdrivers to release the cylinder if you don't have the proper tool. It is a bit tricky to maneuver the two screwdrivers in there and they will cross but with some feeling and poking around as well as patience you can get good and fast at it. This is the method I used for years. Notice that the cylinder can be reinserted at 12 or 6 o'clock, this is how they are handed.

M.

[Darkness1569]

Great video! Although the Quikset tool used in the video is easy to get or fabricate, you can use two small slotted screwdrivers to release the cylinder if you don't have the proper tool. It is a bit tricky to maneuver the two screwdrivers in there and they will cross but with some feeling and poking around as well as patience you can get good and fast at it. This is the method I used for years. Notice that the cylinder can be reinserted at 12 or 6 o'clock, this is how they are handed.

M.

I should probably say that it is not my video, it's just the first thing that popped up when I googled "how to remove a Kwikset cylinder".

I have never had any luck removing the cylinders with screwdrivers, I always distort one of the arms bad enough that I always have bending and realigning to do after it pops out. Do you have this problem or have you gotten the technique down pat?

[Altashot]

Yeah, I got that method down pat. I never bent anything in there, I found that these two retainers to be pretty firm and resistant. Mind you, I haven't done a Kwikset knob in quite some time, maybe the metal is softer now???

M.

[MrWizard]

I have seen many bent cylinder retaining spring clips from people using 2 screw drives and also from people using the kwikset tool and banging it on the bench to try to pop out a tuff to remove cyld.

Problem that happens with cyld that get the retaining springs bent the person that bent them tends to over bend them back making it hard to get the cyld out the next time. That is when 2 thin long screw drivers need to be used.

Best tool I ever used for hard to get out cylds that works effortlessly on all easy and hard to remove cylds is this tool.

Kwikset Cylinder Removing Tool w/ Follower
http://www.clksupplies.com/shop/kwikset ... -1402.html.

You can make your own by splitting a screw driver shaft and carefully curling out the two sides as seen in the picture of the tool above. Easier to just buy a real one, nice aluminum handle that is a follower as well. Works really good made one decades before the one linked to was ever on the market. Old locksmith trick taught to me by an old locksmith!

Richard

[Capt_Tom]

In the 70's I made them from two tines from a leaf rake. Take two back to back, drill and rivet them together... trim the ends back until they fit the need.