How To Remove A Door Knob without Visible Screws

okay i'm back today i'm going to show you how to uh remove this doorknob here if you want to replace your lock it's a really old one and uh let's show you what it looks like on the outside okay it's got the little handle going here and as you can see this here will retract it and let it slide back out okay it's a really old one it should be uh replaced but it still works but i um i was considering changing it until i realized oh this is really old there's no visible screws as you can see now if you go on the internet you will see a lot of guys uh just push in here but this one here is old there's nothing actually it's just an indentation there and there's one right here okay and uh it does nothing uh these uh this is really old so i'm gonna show you how to remove uh this uh plate face plate here and get the knob off so you can actually uh change the lock if you want to so stay tuned so now we're going to get the knob off so uh if you look at some of the other videos as i told you before you have little indentations a little holes where you can push down and this slides out but this one is different doesn't have that there's no visible screws or anything so you got to remove the plate so there's always a little opening here so let's pop the plate out like so and turn it like that okay underneath there's a little lever here yeah you push up and that releases it just like that okay and two screws here to take this plate off and the arm falls off on the other side okay so let's put this back on here like so now as you can see it's a little opening right here this is really old and you snap it back on like so and you line up the little square here the hair like that bang it's in and you turn it like so okay and there's your handle right here okay and that is how you remove the plate off this puppy here uh let me just take a quick look here and see what the um it's a uh that dex tech lock if you have a dextec lock that's how you remove the knob from the door and don't panic just because there's no screws or anything there's always a way just always look for kind of opening somewhere you pop it off and then you look for something to spring this off and it's usually a little clip here or here or here just look around this one's on the bottom and that's how you do it nice and simple so i hope you were able to learn from this and i'll make more vids when i get a chance okay just in case i went too fast uh and showing you the clip release when i pull the knob off it's right underneath here you push up see how that goes and that releases this okay so i was kind of worried maybe i might have gone a little too fast than that but anyways it's right here you push up and it just releases puppy right here okay so thank you again

Channel: Dave How To

Views: 132,772

Keywords: door knob, remove, how to, Dave how to, screws, door, knob, door handle, door plate

Id: L-gzVHMM6yQ

Length: 3min 41sec (221 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 03 2022