00:09 Shane Conlan: Gidday Knuckleheads, Uncle Knackers here.
Do you know what I hate and find really frustrating?
It's when you have trouble inserting a key into your door locks.
Follow me and I'll show you what I mean.
This is what I find frustrating.
You come home from work, you have a box of beer under one arm and a pizza under the other,
and the last thing you want is the hassle of being able to insert your front door key
into your door lock.
The door lock's a bit corroded, it just makes it hard to get the key in.
And once you do get the key in you can't get it out or it's too hard to get out.
Eventually you can get it out.
I hate that!
But wait, there is a really easy solution that'll work nine times out of 10, maybe even
10 times out of 10.
01:06 SC: I don't know.
Do I look like I'm a mathematician?
Don't answer that.
To fix the problem all we need to do is to squirt some lubricant inside that slot where
the key goes in.
Now, I know it's very tempting to race out and get some WD-40 or something like that,
a petroleum-based lubricant and squirt that in.
I'm sure that'll work initially, it'll work beautifully, but over time, because it's a
wet petroleum-based lubricant, it'll attract dust and grime and that's not that good for
the lock.
So, what you need to do, you need to get a dry lubricant, something like a silicon spray
or, in this case, a graphite powder.
And graphite is a super fine powder, and all you need to do is get a couple of squirts
of this into that slot.
Here we go.
Now, it's a really fine powder, so it's a good idea to get your face away from the lock
when you do it.
02:12 SC: So, give it a couple of puffs, like that.
You'll see it coming out of the lock now.
Now just grab your key and insert it in and out of the lock a few times, turning it at
the same time, and what that does is that it distributes the graphite powder around
the entire locking mechanism.
So, let's give it a go.
There you go.
Few more times.
How's that?
That is so much easier than before.
Do a couple of more squirts, like that.
Grab my key.
Look at that!
That is beautiful.
That is fantastic.
Now, because it's graphite powder it's very, very fine.
So it might leave a little bit of residue on the key for the first couple of times that
you use this key.
So, just grab a tissue and just wipe it off.
Just be aware of that before you put it into your nice white shirt pocket or something
like that.
03:33 SC: So, there you go.
That's how you fix a sticky door lock.
Great tip Knackers.
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