euro cylinder

Would you worry about putting a thumb-turn cylinder in a sliding patio door lock? In theory, someone could smash the double-glazing, but how much risk do you think it is? Before you ask, I would only consider a decent anti-snap cylinder.

Hi, I need to replace some euro locks and it seems that there are new fangled "3 star" ones available that are anti-snap (more accurately: the sacrificial front snaps off and leaves the lock inoperable from outside, but still working from inside). Two questions, for any budding locksmiths: 1)...

Hello, Attempting to change over a euro cylinder on a UPVC door. Unable to take out the cylinder after removing the retaining screw. After removing the handles, was greeted with this. No visible way of easily removing the guard from what I can see - does anybody have any experience of dealing...

Hi, I got an issue where my front door does not lock with the key from outside but using the thumbscrew inside you can lock and unlock the door. So I thought easy fix I will change the cylinder but when I change the cylinder you can lock the door but cannot remove the key? The old one works...

If you have a sliding patio door with a Euro cylinder lock in it, it probably opens from both sides. If you only wanted opening from the INSIDE, could you replace the cylinder with a half cylinder and blank off the outside hole? I'm thinking of this from a security perspective, so that there...

Hi All, I recently purchased a Yale Euro Cylinder Lock to replace my old lock. After removing the old barrel and fitting the new one I realised that the key doesn't come out when the door is fully locked. Basically, the key cannot return to the vertical position it needs to be in, in order for...

Hi. I've just gone to replace what I thought was a standard ferloc 528 and eurolock cylinder on a door (should have been a 20 min task) and found that the euro cylinder will not come out of the door. It appears to totter around the retaining machine screw point though, even though that has...

I have French patio doors that I am attempting to remove the CES lock cylinder. I have the key but am unable to get the mechanism to turn down to line up so that I can remove it. I have read and watched everything possible and removing the screw on the side of the door and turning the key 25...