here we are in East Oakland where we did the fence you might remember it from some of our
other videos and the dick as well looks good with the stain on it but the reason I'm here
is because there's a problem with the gate lock it's like a classic gate latch you know you've
got your little hook there and the bar comes in and then this hook goes over the bar preventing
the door coming this way so that's on the gate like that so when it shuts it's like that but
this one is slightly different in that it has a key so once you've shut the gate you can lock it
there because I it has another keyhole to unlock it so you can still get in and out in metal what
side you're on as long as you have the key but it also has this push thing here to release it
so when it's unlocked you can open it because there's no handle or anything it's just a lock
so the way it works is you push there and that releases but as you can see there it's not really
pushing when I push that down and I get out of this sort of engages a bit didn't get stuck here
it's not clicking in and out so I'm gonna take that apart and see if we can find the problem
all right so I've screwed the latch side back on and I've got the spindle in here and if you
look closely so I push it in and it opens but that gets stuck there doesn't want to come back
out even when you push it down it's a bit of a struggle I need to free up the timber around here
and hopefully that will allow it to engage with this side of the latch and make the button work
so that seems to engage well it's a little bit of stiffness and the spring isn't but it works
if you're wondering why I was doing it by hand I lift all the batteries at the other job so
I've got all my battery tools but no batteries I got like five batteries as well these things
happen see when I started doing these videos I was thinking oh it could be like how to run a business
in New Zealand how to run a building business in New Zealand but as I do it I'm realizing
it rather than how to run a business it's this is what happens when you try to run a business
sometimes products don't work and you have to return and try and fix them at your own cost
and sometimes you forget your batteries and you have to do it by hand hey locked unlock
all right let's try and close the gate so I've identified another problem the gates
actually rubbing which doesn't reflect well on me the gap is decent you know no problems with
the gap there and it hasn't sagged either that gap is actually still bigger at the top then I
was at the bottom but on the other side tight then down the bottom loose got no movement here that's
still solid there let's get to even all the way down still yeah locked myself out again but the
tough is rubbing so I must have just made these boards too long so I'm gonna have to take that
off and then trim these boards probably should unscrew each board and cut it one at a time but
I'm gonna try out with multi-tool first just let's see what we got Hey Hey okay that clothes nicely
yeah fixed it so yeah I definitely make mistakes let's just keep that between me and you there