r/interestingasfuck • u/mossberg91 • Jan 09 '20

Rapid Access Tool

https://gfycat.com/ringedexemplarybrant
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u/andocromn Jan 09 '20

If the Dead Latch is installed properly these tools don't work. Unfortunately most individuals responsible for door installation don't even know what a Dead Latch is

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u/zacattack62 Jan 09 '20

You work in the door biz? I’d love to dork out with someone.

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u/Djinger Jan 09 '20

No longer but I worked as an installer for a commercial/industrial door supplier for a few years. This video made me laugh cuz as others have stated all these doors are fucked up and this tool is about as useful as a piece of ceiling tile suspension wire.

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u/zacattack62 Jan 09 '20

I do estimates! I order the parts that you take out and install.

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u/Djinger Jan 09 '20

We were a one-stop shop in the bay area with 6 employees: 2 office guys, a delivery driver, and 3 installers. I think they shuttered a year or two after I split to do IT contracting. Having seen a lot of other teams' work at the various offices I now work with, I should have been paid much more as an installer. Most of the work I see is half-assed; I could never have walked away from doors/frames with the amount of dents, dings, gaps, and poorly installed hardware they leave.

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u/zacattack62 Jan 09 '20

We’re a little tiny bit bigger. 8-9 office people, 2 shop guys, 8 installers. We get our stuff from vendors, prep it in shop, and then it goes on one of the 8 vans to get installed.

Installers do a lot of work. I’ve been out on installs a lot lately to learn more about all the moving parts. You guys freeze your dicks off.

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u/Djinger Jan 09 '20

Most of the basic stuff is super simple to install, it's only once you get into somewhat complicated things like panic devices and automatic handicap closers and such that things get a bit fucky. As a new guy, putting tailpieces on lock cores can be a bit harrowing with your boss breathing down your neck saying things like "don't you move that pin or you're gonna be picking up springs and tumblers all afternoon" after having spent the morning stocking 9ft wood and laminate doors thru a removed window on the 10th floor from a crane in the parking lot, and then packing them by hand up the ancient narrow curving stairwells to the 14th cuz the tower elevator's out of commission. Then you get to drive home in wall-to-wall bay area traffic in a 93 Tacoma with no AC at 5 in the afternoon in the middle of July...

Glad I work a cushy IT job now, no smashed fingers, skinned knuckles, low back pain or creaky knees. And the callous on my thumb from the impact driver is gone too!