Since we bought our house, the locks on our front security door have been really sticky. It took a lot of wiggling and jiggling to unlock the door. It'd always been kind of annoying, but things came to a head a couple of weeks ago when Tony and I came back from a run and the door wasn't opening. It was cold, we had no cell phones, and our neighbors weren't home. After about 15 minutes of wiggling and jiggling, the lock finally gave way.
But it prompted Tony to finally fix the lock. He Googled the phrase, "key sticks in lock fix." And guess what we found out? Fixing a sticky lock is very, very, very easy. Very easy.
Tony picked up a tube of powdered graphite for a few dollars at Frager's. He puffed a little bit into the keyhole and turned the key a few times.
Voila. Unsticky lock.
So now we know. Unstick a lock with powdered graphite.
And sincere apologies to all of our friends who have ever cat sat and had to fight the sticky door. Shouldn't have taken us this long to fix it.
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