Kwikset Cylinder Remover

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Kwikset Cylinder Remover

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

There are several youtube videos depicting how to use this tool. Check out more than one such demo since not all makers of these demos know how to used the tool. Bought for $2.

Locksmiths call this a pickle fork. Bought this tool to invert the key way on my kwikset door knobs. Was far easier removing the lock core than rekeying it manually. Screwdriver works just as well.

Cons

Garage door has no door knob. All that's left is a retaining clip that holds the cylinder. Why is this 40 per cent tool not included with every set of locks?

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Highlights

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Quality

With the new design of the lock

You make my life a little bit easier good quality

The second one that i reset was done with the tool

Kwikset suggests hanging the knob with the key hole upside down but i was not happy with that

Packaging/appearance

This tool made taking the lock out of the doorknob so much easier than using screwdrivers

In the past when this happened i threw away the lockset and replaced it

I used a pair of needlenose vice grip pliers and that allowed me the leverage to insert the vee end of the tool at an angle to ... Read More

Competitiveness

Thus tool worked perfectly saved me alot of time and frustration fixing a couple kwikset dook locks

Did exactly what its supposed to do and let me pop the cylinders out of two of my kwikset locks that were upside down when installed

But this tool along with watching some utube videos and after about 15 minutes of trying

I messed up a kwikset smartkey lock while rekeying it

Overview

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This product had a total of 1,232 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 17 2023.