Cheap Tot Lok Starter Set (Baby Product) Price
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| CATEGORY: | Baby Product |
| MANUFACTURER: | Safety 1st |
| FEATURES: | DOREL JUVENILE/SAFETY 1ST #71173 Tot Lock Magnet, DOREL JUVENILE/SAFETY 1ST |
| TYPE: | Safety, Kitchen Safety, Cabinet Locks |
| MEDIA: | Baby Product |
| MPN: | 71173 |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 052181711732 |
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Customer Reviews of Tot Lok Starter Set
The best locks available! I am very impressed by these locks after having tried the popular cheaper alternative. With the Tot Loks when your cabinets or drawers are closed they stay CLOSED! No gaps for tiny fingers to get caught and smashed in. Included hardware provides support for surfaces of any thickness. One of the most impressive features is the ability to disable the lock for an extended period of time with the flip of a latch (which can only happen intentionally). These locks are well worth their price and are cheaper here than you'd find in the store.
Can't Get Any Better
I totally love these locks. I read all of the reviews before I bought them. I am very handy, and was confident that I could install them with no problems. I installed one lock on my nightstand drawer (a little trial & error). I had to adjust and re-install it, but, that was it. I put them on my sons dresser with no problems what-so-ever. ** They should tell you that a certain sized drill bit (7mm or 9/32") is needed to install them. ** Other than that, they are so great. My son is very hard on furniture, and he cannot get the doors/drawers open for nothing . . . FANTASTIC!!!!!!
Very much worth the trouble
Selecting these locks over the competition was easy, as it's not hard to see how toddlers can easily overcome the other choices. Since keeping my triplets out of harm's way was the only thing that mattered, the higher price and installation time were not factors for consideration.
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>In short, they work. They are incredibly secure. So much so that if something goes wrong, you can permanently lock yourself out. And using them is easy. But be warned, installation of this product can lead to a day full of swearing. There are enough reviews extolling this product's virtues or damning it's installation, with a small number claiming they don't work, but at the end of the day, you should get them because they really are the best product out there.
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>The first lock took about 25 minutes. Once I figured out how to install it, it was easy. In total, I spent about 4 1/2 hours installing 30 locks on cabinets and drawers. Cabinets were much easier than drawers, since the drawers tended not to align as well with the drawer openings. They worked fine on warped doors, but sometimes required repositioning of the striking plate.
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>INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
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>The instructions aren't as helpful as they should be. Larger pictures would help. But even that won't overcome the fact that the cabinet faces must be flat in order for the template to work as intended. I have 3/4" thick cabinet doors, with a 3/8" overhang around the edge. To accomodate my situation, I cut off the narrow part of the template, and placed the remaining part at the edge of the thick part of the door, and marked the holes with an awl. I did this for all the doors before drilling.
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>I strongly recommend drilling pilot holes for all the screws. The screws are small and easy to strip when screwing into hardwood.
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>After I installed all the locking mechanisms, I tested each one to make sure they opened with the key.
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>To install the strike plates, I took a post-it note marked with a line, and after closing each door, placed the line on the outside of the door frame where the center of the strike plate should go. This was easy to eyeball, and there's a fair amount of room for error to do this. I would simply place the strike plate on the inside edge of the door frame and mark with an awl before drilling pilot holes.
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>- Drilling through the cabinet. This is easy to do, and easy to avoid. Be careful, and buy a separate drill stop. The one included in the package isn't much better than using tape to mark the drill bit. You should have a set of drill stops in your toolbox anyway. Plus, you can use the smaller one for drilling pilot holes for the small screws.
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>- Locking yourself out. Possible causes include not drilling the plunger hole deep enough, not cleaning the hole out, installing the plunger improperly, or a faulty lock. Out of the 30 locks installed, I had two that were faulty. In essence, they were "sticky". They appeared to work fine uninstalled, but wouldn't function even when drilled to a point just short of going through the cabinet. There is no way to adequately test them before you actually install them, so refrain from installing the striking plate until you've tested the installed locking mechanism with the magnetic key a few times.
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>If using the extension slug, make sure it is pushed all the way into the hole. Pull the plunger out of the locking mechanism until it is almost all the way out before placing the mechanism over the hole. Gaps between these pieces can result in the lock not working. Don't worry about losing pieces in the hole as you try to figure out which combination you need. You can always get them out with the magnet.
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>I should mention that my drawer faces are 1-1/2" thick, and the extensions worked fine.
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>- Gaps between the lock and striking plate. Get creative with shims. In some cases, I used a couple of small washers behind the striking plate and some longer screws. In other cases, I glued a small block of wood inside the drawer opening. You might choose to screw them in if you want to remove them later, but mine were hidden from view due to the way the cabinets were made, and it was easier for me to glue them.
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>- Something is in the way of the lock when closing. Move the lock. Yeah, it's that simple. I read a review where someone didn't scope out their project before starting and complained about the product because it hit the sink before the door could close.
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>I drilled pilot holes to make things easier. Since some of the holes were in tight spots, I found it necessary to use the following items to complete the job in addition to those listed by the manufacturer:
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>CUSTOMER SUPPORT:
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>As mentioned earlier, I had two locks that turned out to be faulty. At first, I thought I did something wrong, but interchanging locks proved that it was the locks themselves. I called Safety1st and am happy to say that they sent a whole new starter set of 4 to me WITH A KEY, no questions asked. It just took a few days to get here.
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