OMG, thank you. After watching another video and spending nearly an hour and a half trying to remove the broken key from my front door I almost gave up. But I decided to try your video. And you gave me the keys to the kingdom, so to speak! The other guy never told me that the lock had to be aligned vertically to release the pins and allow the key to slide out! After doing that I was able to pry the key out in less than 2 minutes. 🤦♀️ Thank you so much for that valuable piece of information. I'm going back to the first video to tell that other guy that he skipped step 1!
After aligning the broken key in the vertical position, I just used a pic and small pliers from my RC(remote control) tool kit, pried the broken key out maybe 2mm, grabbed it nice and tight with the pliers, and pulled it out.
I've actually done it. You habe to melt quite of bit it & push hard to get a firm grip on the key. And then slowly pull. It took 4 tries but got her in.
Woww. This information about the lock that should be in a vertical position helps me. I thought I can never get out of my house. Thank you and God bless.
I spent so long looking at how to get the key out if the lock with all sorts of hacks! It's only when you mentioned the special alignment pins that I went and turned the key with my tweezer and TADA it slid right out!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MENTIONING THAT!!!!!
Ok, let's be completely honest here. If I am LUCKY enough to break my key - I am calling you guys! You come to the house, you have reasonable prices, the last time I got to talk to one of your guys when I needed help at home (quite a while back) the guy was polite, told me everything he was doing & why ( very interesting) and fixed my door. Right now, we don't get to see very many other folks to talk to. I could be tempted to break a key in a lock ON PURPOSE.
Thanks. Worked great. Trick for me was not to pull glue back too hard... natural instinct is too try to tug key out by force, but glue loses connection with key with that sudden force. key comes out if you slowly jiggle loose with very light force from glue stick until key budges loose first. Good luck, folks.
If the cylinder is turned when the key breaks, that means you're properly at the shear lines. It'll turn right back. But it won't pull out because the pins, that the key is holding at the shear line, have no place to go to get out of the way so the key can come out.
As I mention this only works when your key is not pushed in too far. We have this article on our website which provides other methods www.acmelocksmith.com/articles/how-to-remove-broken-key-from-lock/
My key which, according to it's shape I found is called a primary key broke in the lock. The whole end bit broke off and the door is locked. Would this method work to get it out?
The key is broke, so you would need a new key.😊 Take both pieces to a local locksmith and they should have no problem getting you a new one. Whether or not you need to do something to the lock will depend on why the key broke in the first place. If something in the lock prevented it from turning and that's the key broke, take the lock to a locksmith for a repair.
When a tip of a key or something is stuck in the lock, there are other methods but we wanted to try if this hack would really work! Thanks for watching! www.acmelocksmith.com/blog/how-to-remove-broken-key-from-lock/
