The doors of cabinets and cabinets can be locked with a hidden magnetic locking device. Visually, such a lock does not have a keyhole, so it is even difficult to guess how it opens. Let's look at how to make such a constipation with your own hands.
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The process of making a secret magnetic lock
The lock of this design is suitable for locking doors. It can be installed in a cabinet or cabinet. It uses dowels as locking pins. They need to be drilled lengthwise and countersunk to screw in the screws.
On the top wall of the cabinet or cabinet, you need to make markings with the same spacing to place the pins. The marks are transferred to the door.
Then you need to dismantle the top wall and drill blind holes in it using a 7 mm drill according to the marks. This is done so that they are placed strictly above the center of the edge of the door.
The wall is put in place. Dowels with screws turned out are placed in the holes with their heads up, and magnets are placed on top of them. You need to lock the pins to mark them flush with the wall.The excess part is cut off.
Now we drill the door exactly opposite the holes in the upper wall. After that furniture they are put back together with the pins.
The key for the lock can be realized by making decorative cross strips along the edges of the top wall. One is installed on 2 dowels, and the second on one, and only from the door side. Thus, it will turn on it as on an axis.
Holes are drilled in the bar exactly opposite the pins from below into which magnets are installed.
Thus, if you turn it and place it above the door, the lock latch will open.
It is imperative that when the bar is in the normal closed position, you need to tighten the screws under the magnets. Then they will hold it in place so that it does not move, thereby not giving away the secret.
Single pin security lock option for drawer
You can also install one metal one instead of a set of dowel pins.
Then one magnet is enough to lift it. This option is suitable for a drawer.
In this case, the magnet can be hidden in the handle so that it is easily accessible.
