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Sounds like an interesting way to get locked out of your house. You would need successful uses of the key to reset the ratchet or every 5 times you opened your
by lexicality 4y ago
Sounds like an interesting way to get locked out of your house.
You would need successful uses of the key to reset the ratchet or every 5 times you opened your door it would become inoperable for 10 minutes, assuming the spring for the timer hasn't rusted or got a bit of grit in it or whatever.
- HellsMaddy 4y agoRevised: - Each [failed] attempt to rotate the cylinder could partially compress a spring-loaded lever. - The return mechanism would always return if not in its resting position, not only after each 5 failures. - Successful attempts immediately reset the spring.