How to fix kwikset lever handle that has fallen apart off This model is a lever and requires a 3/32 Allen wrench to remove the handle in order to pop the rose plate off and expose the screws. - Kwikset website
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Thank you so much for this! Great info! It took me longer to dig through my ridiculous random Allen wrench collection looking for the right one than to fix it.
Thank you! I had this problem on the inside knob with the lock switch. My model only had one hole.This video helped me understand the basic concept of how the allen wrench screw works. My handle is now secure.
Perfect! Exactly the setup I have somewhere & was unfamiliar with! _Very helpful!_ (esp. saving time digging out manufacturer info / etc.) Appreciate ya!
The reason the non-experienced person used a wood screw is because there is a hole in the lever and a hole in the lock cylinder that overlap when the handle is rattling. Putting an Allen key in the hole doesn't do any good unless you (which is counter intuitive) shove and wiggle the key all the way through the assembly to the other side where it will allow for tightening. An inexperienced person who doesn't/didn't have access to RU-vid -(the source of all knowledge) would come up with this as a logical way to keep the lever from rattling. Wrong but very understandable.
Also this was the first inspection of what I needed to do there. The guy had no keys to the whole house. I had to pull all the cylinders out, rekey them and put them back in. When I did that I put them in right side up.
@@Jesusisallpowerful yes. Remember, the locking thumb turn button must be in the unlocked position or the Allen wrench won't go all the way in to engage the set screw.
That looks like a security flaw to me, you shouldn't be able to remove the outer handle from the outside, any burglar could take it off and manipulate the lock tumbler. Locks are so easily defeated. They need to quit using the designs from five decades ago and redesign them to increase the security IMHO.
You can only do this with the handle UNLOCKED. You can’t just walk up when the door is locked and take it apart. So if the door is unlocked they can just walk in and don’t have to take it apart
