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I know I haven’t been updating like I used to. This is simply because I was busy for the past few days installing this cylindrical lock, on my bedroom door. The old lock suffered too much violet from my abuse over the years, and is beyond repair. Also, it’s not so advisable to repair a lock because you don’t want to get locked in the room if it does fail again sometime in the future, without any warning!

The cylindrical lock cost me RM32.90, a bit pricey but it’s of heavy duty grade with 200,000 operating cycles guaranteed. I hope this new lock will be able to sustain my abuse and last for at least 20 years from now.

That’s the pieces I needed to piece together. Of course, before putting them to use, need to have a “group” photo first.

Zoom in a little bit… oh, now we can see it’s SIRIM certified.

For someone inexperienced the installation of the lock is definitely not so straight forward although an installation guide is supplied with the lock which I purchased. The guide is nicely illustrated, but it’s still very difficult to understand and that’s why it took me a while to get it installed in place… not to mention it took equally long to disassemble the old lock from the door.

Anyway, after a few sleepless nights of knocking, hammering, screwing and hacking, I finally fixed the new cylindrical lock. The result of the labor is of course wonderful. I have photos for proof.

It’s lovely, isn’t it? I quite like the contrast between the dark background at the left and the purple-ish background at the other side.

The knob is so reflective, can you see my face there?

Ops, I think I have talked out of topic today. Initially I wanted to tell you how you can save some money by installing a cylindrical lock yourself, aka the DIY style, but instead I have talked about how wonderful my lock is. This post is getting long, so the maybe we can do the “how-to” part at another time.

Last but not least, remember an old saying “a door is only as good as its lock”… so it’s wise to get a good lock both to look good and for security reasons.

Tags: diy, lock