garage lock

[cred]

hi,
done a few garage door locks now ( the t-bar type) opened and refitted, but today i got a job from a guy and he says he has the key but the lock wont open, so i gets there and what had happened was that the connection that goes onto the back of the lock on the inside had somehow fell off, so the lock was not connected to the opening rods, ( it was not the kind that has a wire pully but the one that connects to a metal pully ( i think 1 either side of the lock).
now if it was the one that had a wire opener i could have fished around for it but as it was not how would any of you guys opened this one?
thanx
ray

[vector40]

What DID you do?

[toomush2drink]

I would have got a putty knife or scraper down the side of the door and tried to slide the bar back, it should move if its detatched from the mechanism. Im replacing a handle on one of these in a couple of days funny enough.

[digital_blue]

I'd have picked the lock on the pedestrian door. I'm guessing there wasn't any?

db

[cred]

no other door i did look down the sides to see if i could get something in to try and move the rods but in the gap on either side there were metal plates covering the gaps apart from at the top but only about 6 inch and all you could see was the rollers
ray

[oldlock]

I've done them in the past by drilling off the fixing studs for the T handle and removing it, that then gives you a nice hole in the door to work through.

Paul