Door won't open fix

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Dmix
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Ok, I'm not good at write-ups but here goes nothing.

To open the door. Tap/hit rapidly with your palm on the door where the latch/striker is and keep trying to open the door as you do this. It may take 10 min but it will open with enough vibration.
Once you open the door take off the panel. Then take off the steel plate behind it so you can remove the latch system in the door.
The latch system is what fails. After time the plastic inside wears and sticks. The solution is to take a pen spring and twist it over the line for the outside handle so it pushes the latch past that sticking point.

I have a picture but no idea how to put it on here.


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Ilya
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Good work!

There should be a guide on how to post pictures in the FAQ link of my signature.

Dmix
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Image

This is where the spring goes.
Last edited by Ilya on Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:38 am, edited 1 time in total.

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We find that DropBox usually is very bad at hosting images, for whatever reason. You might be better of using a service like IMGUR or tinypic. But your link is correct and how you did it is right, it's just on DropBox's end. I tried to mess with the link but it still isn't loading.

Dmix
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Any way I could just send you the pic lol. I don't even know how to edit/delete these failed posts

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I have gone ahead and shared the image via TinyPic and updated your post.

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You da best. Thanks.


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