Ah, now we get some more information. You bought the locks at
Home Depot. Well, that makes you a frugal home owner. If you were
interested in having it done, you could likely find a locksmith
who would come out and do the install for you. And then he (she?)
could do the cylinder removal for you. Actually, it doesn't
surprise me that you're not a locksmith customer. If you were,
you'd have the job all done by now. And you wouldn't be posting
repeatedly to usenet looking for free advice.

By trying to save a buck on buying your own lock, you wasted
several hours of your life. What is your life worth? What is your
time worth? Was that a good use of your time? Spend hours to
learn something you'll need twice in your life?

Just call a locksmith and be done with it.

--

Christopher A. Young
You can't shout down a troll.
You have to starve them.
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wrote in message
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On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:41:59 -0800,
wrote:
I'm shocked that I have to order this Kwikset cylinder
removal tool
just to get the Kwikset lock to fit a right hand door.
I must be missing something simple.

I give up.
I tried for hours to remove the lock so I could put it right
side up
instead of upside down in my right hand door.

It seems I lack a three-dollar tool.

http://www.lockpicks.com/browseprodu...ving-Tool.html

Instead of ordering the tool, I'm so very frustrated with this
50 dollar
Kwikset lock that I'm returning it to the Home Depot tomorrow.

What I learned so far is to never ever again purchase any door
entry lock
that doesn't SAY whether it's a right or left-handed lock!

Otherwise, half the time, we'd be buying the WRONG lock!

I suspect Kwikset did this on purpose but for the life of me, I
can't
figure out what perverse thoughts were in their mind to torture
us so.