Front Door Lock
We are going to start at the front door, because unless the operator was a complete doofus, the keys to the back door and backglass rails will be hanging on a loop inside the coin door - usually on the ball trough, but sometimes on the coin door.
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| standard door lock |
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Okay, this is a lock. It goes through a hole in the coin door, with the mushroom head on the outside and the big nut on the inside. The metal bar on the back rotates behind the wood next to the door to prevent you from pulling the door open.
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| the locking bar |
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One solution is to drill straight through the lock from the front and destroy that bolt. The bar will fall off and the door swings open. It's good theory, but in practice it seems to be easier to simply use larger and larger drill bits and mangle the lock cylinder and faceplate inside the mushroom head of the casing. You are trying to cut off the faceplate. Eventually you will get the faceplate off and the remains of the cylinder will usually slide out the back of the casing as you pull open the door.
You can also try using the trusty moto-tool and carve/cut out the lock faceplate. Note you are removing the inside of the lock. The outer casing should be reasonably undamaged, which means you don't destroy the wood.
