Remove door lock without visible screws and stuck latch spindle

what's going on guys i'm bill and welcome to bills how to today i'm going to be showing you guys how to remove this door handle right here it's a gainsbro door handle privacy lock and there's two components to this here that drive people crazy let's get straight into it guys let's do this all right guys so the two components that drive people crazy with this door handle here is number one not having any visible screws to be able to remove the door handle which i've shown you guys a few different methods in the past pretty easy i'm going to show you guys this one here as well however the part that got me the most when i first started being exposed to these door handles here is the actual shaft or the spindle that runs all the way through our latch here and when i get to that you're gonna see what i mean and i'll explain exactly what i used to do but the first thing we need to do is remove these covers here now this section here is a cover and same on the other side okay so on the front here it's pretty simple you can just twist it off usually they're either going to turn um anti-clockwise so lefty loosey righty-tighty or in this case here it's got a rubber seal on the edge here and that's what makes everything pretty tight in there and a lot of people try and pull this off and they really struggle there's a seal on there and that's what's causing it to be so tight now when we have a look at the back here you'll notice we've got our little privacy button to prevent people from coming in when you're in the bathroom what you need to do twist that one there to the left once again remove that little piece right there and then we can do the exact same thing on this side here a little bit difficult to do with one hand but on manage and now if we have a look we've actually exposed our screws so we've got one screw here on the inside and one screw on the outside so in case you're wondering the reason why i'm pulling this door lock here apart is because the door is actually water damaged and i'm about to replace the door so that's why the lock needs to come off so we can remove our screws make sure you don't lose those do the same thing on the other side pull these two apart now this one here is a little bit tight because when they painted it they must have put the handles straight back on while the paint was still fresh and it's slightly sealed on put these on a side once again we can undo our two screws here from our latch and this is the part where most people including myself the first time i come came across this probably about nine years ago something like that absolutely drove me crazy all right guys so let's have a look at this latch latchia screws are removed so that we can remove our latch here i'm going to actually show you guys a bit of the inside view and see if you can actually figure out what's happening here before i show you guys okay so we've got our little shaft or our spindle that runs all the way through okay we've got a screw here on the back i'm just trying to show you guys a few of the little key features here see what it is that you can pick up okay you can't push it through this way you can't push it through that way so how do you remove it i'll give you guys a quick tip in case this isn't the actual style that you've got um on some other particular styles i'm not sure what the brand was on the last one there was a little hole here on the end and there was a little torx screw or an allen key screw something like that inside where i had to get an allen key and back off that screw so this shaft here was actually in two pieces and i had to undo one at a time or just one side take out that screw then i can remove this side and remove the other side now in this case here it's not actually the case so once again let's have a look on this side here what can you see that is different about this latch here so it's very very difficult to see but if you have a look right there that's probably actually a better angle you see that little black ring right here what that is is an o-ring for whatever stupid reason this particular lock here what you do is you slide the actual shaft or the spindle all the way through then you've got an o-ring that slips over the top and sits in a little groove here so pretty much doing the exact same job that a circlip would do but they've got a little o-ring right there you can see the little rubber seal and that is actually what's stopping everything from being able to push it back out the other way so to remove the o-ring we need a flathead screwdriver being as careful as possible not to puncture it if you do puncture it it's not the end of the world all you need to do is just simply replace the o-ring i'm going to try and do this without blocking the camera's view which means it might take me a little bit longer so i'm just putting the flathead screwdriver on the edge lifting it up and stretching it just a bit until i can pull it over that shaft as we've got there flick the other side over the corner as well and do the same thing down the bottom and it should simply come off all right so now we can see that o-ring coming off and this here is what is causing all our problems here if i pull out this section here now it comes out nice and easy and that o-ring sits right here on that groove and that's what prevents it from coming out so there you have it guys that's how to remove the gainsbro privacy lock pretty easy to do now that you know exactly what needs to be done but if you have never come across something like this before i guarantee you it would have driven you crazy hopefully you guys have enjoyed the video and you've learned something new as always guys like comment and subscribe until next time i'm bill thanks for watching

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Length: 6min 16sec (376 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 21 2022