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Sliding door handle and latch woes
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<blockquote data-quote="Moseley" data-source="post: 612968" data-attributes="member: 20098"><p>The outer handle is held in place by the inner handle. The square rod that goes through the mechanism is all that stops it from just dropping off, so this should just slide out through the mechanism.</p><p></p><p>I would screw the lock back to the door, put a sacrificial screw back into the end of the square rod and then give it a few clean taps with a mallet. Just make sure you have your knee or whatever hard against the outside of the door as you don’t want to put undue pressure on the hinge and rollers when hitting it. I imagine it is just stuck fast with years of hardened grease and grime. A bit of mallet action should break it free (be prepared that it might fly out at speed, so see if you can get a washer underneath the screw to stop it from coming all the way off).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moseley, post: 612968, member: 20098"] The outer handle is held in place by the inner handle. The square rod that goes through the mechanism is all that stops it from just dropping off, so this should just slide out through the mechanism. I would screw the lock back to the door, put a sacrificial screw back into the end of the square rod and then give it a few clean taps with a mallet. Just make sure you have your knee or whatever hard against the outside of the door as you don’t want to put undue pressure on the hinge and rollers when hitting it. I imagine it is just stuck fast with years of hardened grease and grime. A bit of mallet action should break it free (be prepared that it might fly out at speed, so see if you can get a washer underneath the screw to stop it from coming all the way off). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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