Steve wrote:
"Nate Nagel" wrote in message
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How...? the little extra pin still retracts when you push the latch
back. unless you can stop that from happening, you will always be able
to use the library card trick.

nate


Get a lockset. Push the deadlatch back to the point where it would be if it
rests against the face of the strike (not down in the hole next to the
spring latch like it will be on a crappy install like Stormy does all the
time because he doesn't know or care what it's for either) now, while
holding the deadlatch in that position try and push back the spring latch.

I'll be damned, you're right.

That must mean that there's a whole lot of crappy installs out there,
because I can think of at least 3x off the top of my head that I've had
to do the card trick and was able to pull it off in less than a minute.
Once at a house I used to live in and at least twice on a big, heavy
fire-rated door at a place I used to work. In fact, every time I've
*needed* to get in a door, I've been able to.

The Weiser locks on my current house do appear to be resistant to
"carding" as well as the metal weatherstrip would make it that much more
difficult.

nate

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