[Shop-talk] Removing security screws

[Pat Horne]

Several things to try. 

Check with neighbors to see if any if them have the same locks. If so, maybe they remember who installed them. 

Contact a locksmith to see if they can make a key to match. 

You might be able to super glue a matching tool to the screw & unscrew it. Be careful to not glue the tool to the latch!

Drill into the latch around the screws & break the latch away. 

Peace,
Pat
Pat Horne 
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On Oct 21, 2020, at 8:42 PM, Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com> wrote:


New house was a foreclosure.  It was 'secured' at some point.  One of the security features was locking sash latches in all the windows.  They did not leave a key to those locks.  The sash latches are secured with security/one-way screws that cannot just be unscrewed.  

They're also pretty hard and so close to the window pane itself that drilling them with a reverse drill bit isn't working.  And they're small enough that just grabbing them with a needle-nose vice grip isn't working either.  

Any advice before I do something stupid and screw up what we're some nice windows before the idiots got involved?

Scott
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