On Oct 22, 12:03*am, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
dennis@home wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote in
media.com...

Just been watching one of those cops with cameras TV shows. *Cops
raided a suspected drugs den in a flat in Plymouth, broke the door
down with the big red key.

The search obviously took some time & one of the brief film shots
seemed to show a locksmith removing the old eurolock.

It was a very brief clip, but he seemed to have removed the door
handle & faceplate leaving about an inch of the eurolock exposed.

He adjusted a large adjustable spanner to fit the eurolock body &
applied a few sharp horizontal jerks - and the lock seemed to break
in half. I would have thought a eurolock would have been stronger than
that -
does this really work?

Yes.
Which is why your euro lock barrel doesn't protrude and you don't
just screw a handle to the outside.
I hope you haven't been fitting euro locks if you didn't know.

Never fitted one, don't know anything about them. *The handle & cover plate
were missing from the outside of the door. *Presumably they were removed
from inside then?

The exterior plate needs to be attached from the inside, as without it
the eurolock is quite vulnerable.


NT