How can I get these door mechs out?

How can I get these door mechs out?

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Frimley111R

Original Poster:

15,661 posts

234 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Bloody things seem like they are hammered in. Any ideas?


jjones

4,426 posts

193 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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burn the wood away, then you will be left with the locks

Captain Ahab

184 posts

234 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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large molegrips attached to the exposed bit and pulling and twisting motion, if that fails hold the grips at 90 degrees and give them a whack with a hammer to shock it out.

CubanPete

3,630 posts

188 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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If the doors have just been recently stripped they will have sat in a caustic soda bath for a week. If so let the wood dry and shrink back and they should open up.

shimmey69

1,525 posts

178 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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Try putting something like an old Allen key though the lock hole and using that to help push/hammer it out.

Are new locks going on? If so marry up new locks to those so you have a template of maximum area covered by new lock and chisel out a bigger hole to get better leverage.