hi I'm Dave Walker with West Tennessee or middle door company we're here today putting together a training video aimed at the installers to help with a couple of our locks we offer five different deadbolt locks and you're probably familiar with several of them or DSL which is very similar to what's used in the storm door line our ubl is essentially a quick set look-alike or knockoff very similar but then we actually have three other locks that are the mmk the FML and the PSL now the MK and the FML are mortise type locks they're very heavy duty they're maximum security but they're also different then then a lot of the installers have worked with especially if it's one of your first times so what we're going to do today is actually install one in this lock box to help you determine how the law goes together and then clear out a few basic mistakes now here on the table I've actually got everything itemized there's basically the lock body that's going to go into the door the guard plate that that is going to feed it through when I put it in the lock we've got a fair of cylinders here which actually have a pair of hard collars when we install them they're going to sit through here and the basic function of this hard collar is to stop someone from putting a pipe wrench on it and breaking that you know cylinder out of the door so it would actually just spin and it's okay if it spins plenty of times customers call up and complain and say my our collar is spinning and in fact you've got to explain it's designed to spin we don't want it to clamp down on that cylinder because then a thief could take a pipe wrench and break the cylinder off of course we have our keys we have our knob set which the outside knob always has the two posts to where there are no screws visible from the outside and then the inside knob is going to go on we're going to attach it with these two screws there is also a striker plate this is very important it's a it's a common mistake that a lot of the installers will not put this on the door and I've got a piece of cutaway here of our aluminum z-bar that has the proper cutout for the law and this driver plate is designed to go on right through that area and if you'll notice these holes are actually offset right now I have it in the correct position where they're back towards the home or towards the felt however if you rotate it in the opposite direction now those holes are out further towards the front of the home of it you know possibly works like this but it's not designed to because now you're only grabbing a thinner part of the wood when you're screwing them in so it is designed to wear those offset screws are towards the back towards the home towards the felt okay and in the actual bag of components there are two different size screws there's a very big headed screw and a very small one well you know obviously this is the correct one it just it floats in there perfect it will suck down on that striker plate the other one is just going to fall right through so clearly could not use that one okay and this actually takes I think it's a number three Phillips head it's the big fat Phillips head common of the ground up nose on it and you'll definitely want to have that in your tool kit and that's the only time that you're going to use that I believe it's a number two Phillips head that you're going to use most of the installation with so let's just go ahead and put this lock together we're actually going to set this one up as if it's a hinge left door and there is a stamp on these that will say right hand reverse which is actually just the opposite if you're outside looking at the home lenses are on the left so the way this lock industry does actually call that a right hand reverse but in most cases probably 95% of the cases are locked the knob is always on top but the cylinders on the bottom and we do that so that when our knob is on top typically on an entry door the lever or knob is on the bottom and we kind of want the two to live in harmony and this one another so essentially what we're going to end up doing is this is going to attach and by the way the majority of this will already be put together this is simply going to help if you ever had to take the lock completely out of the door so what we're going to do is simply feed the guard plate through the lock put it into the actual door there are going to be a couple of screws that are going to hold this lock body into the door one thing you're going to want to make certain of is before you cinch them down we want to make sure that the cylinder hole and the lock holes do line up because you can sort of float this body up and down this one's actually holding in there pretty true where we're not going to have an issue screwing that in so we're just will go ahead and tighten this down all right so now lock body is in sold as you see here there are two screws these are the cylinders groups these screws are actually controlling I'm going to shoot them forward and you should see a head of that screw coming out right here and that actually is going to be stabbing into a groove in the cylinder when they put the cylinder in but you have got to make certain that that is unscrewed before you put your cylinder in and the way that you know just make sure to back the head out where it comes past the front edge of the strut base point so now that I have that this is a very important if you ever have to thread these in here if it's one of your first times I might almost suggest that you thread it in first of all you put the key in only you know halfway not all the way if you put it in all the way it's going to turn the cam on the backside so we're going to actually put it in half the 3/4 of the way use it like a tool we want to thread this in here and do not force it in here we just have to continue to rotate until we get it once you get it in there it's a machine thread it will thread in very easy and then you can use the key as a tool now on the MML lock which that's what the L stands for on the MML is lever we have the factory have already screwed this in to your door so when you get it you're going to have the cylinder screwed in now inside of the door you're going to have to remove them to put that leaver plate on but again if it's one of your first times installing this kind of lock please just thread it in like this what that will do is kind of help cut the thread just going to get this out actually going to put hard collar on it you know that's a safety collar that prevent somebody from using a pipe wrench now once we put it in we want to get it to where this is pretty snug all right I'm in good shape right there okay and I have stopped at the 12 o'clock position with the teeth pointing downward okay that's the correct position and if I tighten that screw and be careful just cinch it in nice nice and slow if if that cylinder would have been cocked to the right or to the left that screw potentially can stab into that thread and make it difficult to get back out but now that this cylinder is secured into place we can throw the dead bolt in the lock position unlock position and then you actually turn the key backwards to move the plunger that's how the customer is going to operate it when we have the nightlights the day-night latching gate okay but what I want to show everybody is this is one common mistake and in the entry door business most of the cylinders stop more at the six o'clock position with the teeth pointing upward in the security door business that's not the way it works and if that were in stalled like this the lock will never work it will not work with the T pointing up when the knob is on top the lock is not designed to work that way and I would call this the six o'clock position as opposed to rotating it 180 degrees upward now I'm at what I'm calling the 12 o'clock position which is the correct position so I'm going to go on and reset that and put the front side cylinder in now on the M&K lock this is already going to be installed onto the door the bodies there the guard plates there and the cylinders are there so you will not on the mmk have to do this unless you end up having to take the the lock out of the door for some reason and please if you ever on a job and you have an issue and you're not sure pick up the phone and call them a toll-free number it's eight six six seven nine zero three six six seven there's plenty of people on staff here that can help you out Mison you know cell number they could give out if it got too technical but please try to call the factory at some point now now I'm putting this front side cylinder in I'm at the six o'clock position I actually need to go around to twelve o'clock and I'm getting to about nine o'clock and it's tight we're not going to make all the way back up so now we simply have to back up to the prior twelve o'clock position again the teeth are pointing downward and now we're going to set that screw just snug it up nice and slow so we're not ruining those uh threads if we're in wrong position okay so now the lock I always try to propel off three or four times get it working and then turn it backwards to make sure that it is pulling the plunger back okay so now we're going to put the handle set on and there again the post go to the outside there is actually a dot of Loctite glue so to speak on these threads my recommendation is before you put this handle set onto the door put these two screws on here run them down to the bottom and then back them off what that's doing is helping cut that Loctite is going to help you when you install the handle set because when you're putting the screws in from the inside and you're doing it I would suggest that you use a hand screwdriver you're not down at a very good angle there's no way to get a straight angle here you have to kind of be up at an angle so by running those screws in like I did it's going to give you a better shot not stripping out that screw so outside of the home inside of the home so I'm putting on this handle set put him on the inside handle setting again there's a spindle here lines up with a lock body now we're going to line up these screws and I would finger tighten them the pout as far as you can it's going to help you with the angle of your screwdriver and it's going to ensure that you're not going in at an angle and stripping out the the screw now I've gotten a pretty good finger tight I'm just going to roll on in there and definitely always tighten you know one screw five or six times and then go to the other side and tighten it five or six times in other words don't run one of them all the way home and then try to do the other one all right so we now we're on the outside of the home and the anvil is locked yet on the inside of the home is unlocked okay that is controlled by this button on the edge here it's called a day/night left switch right now it's locked push it in the unlock position the handle is unlocked so when the door closes you can open the door each time it's a good lock especially if the customer has kids mom and dad are going to work they're begging the kids please lock the door when you leave but if you're used to using this button always in the lock position when the door closes it automatically locks and so even though the deadbolt is not locked the door is closed and locked now the way the customer gets in they put the key in t point down and instead of the knob pulling the plunger back like on the inside is always unlock now the key pulls it back okay so now when the when the customer closes the door and locks it everything locks up outside knob inside knob and the deadbolt is thrown okay and again it's throwing through this driver plate through the Z bar and the striker plate that you put on there okay and yes the door closes one tip that for the customer is you know you installers are dealing with jams sometimes a hundred years old and not everything is as smooth as it is possible because the houses settle or whatever sometimes you can actually the doors install so straight up and down and perfect that you can just turn it with your finger other times I suggest at the split second that you turn this key backwards apply pressure towards the home on the door and then it will come open so that's a tip that if you're ever struggling with just your free hand apply a little pressure towards the home so that's pretty much how these mmk works the FML is basically the same thing the only real difference is that you're going to have a plate we will not have this hard collar you will have a thinner collar and those two cylinders at the bottom is what holds the plate together and at the top there's a sex bowl you got the male on the outside and the female on the inside and and the levers go on the top but the operation of law is virtually the same the key pulls it back the nightlights which locks the outside leaves the inside unlock so again that was just kind of a quick run through on how this lock installs and if you ever have issues please call the factory and and ask somebody on staff you know how to help correct if you have any issues thanks again and give us a call at one eight six six seven nine zero three six six seven bye