Tonight when I came in the smaller of the two double doors at the front wasn't latched and I could enter without a card.Ian identified that it was also a matter of something being "sticky". The long pipe that connects the top and bottom latches on that door to the panic bare has a tendency to get stuck in the "up" position. Manually forcing it down works. I jiggled it a bunch and it seems less likely to stick now but I could still make it stick by lifting it up and letting it go gently. Could be it needs a stronger spring. Could be it just needs oil in the internal mechanism._______________________________________________On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 10:11 PM Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:today i got a call that the front door latch wasn't working right.
I came to the space and checked it out, and it's definitely getting sticky -
trying to open the door right after activating the latch release sometimes
doesn't work. Trying a second time works.
I fiddled with the solenoid latch and tried to identify the problem but i can't
see anything specific that's going wrong.
This latch was just purchased a couple of months ago and i'm guessing it was
hundreds of dollars. It's a really fancy thing. Maybe it has a warranty?
I don't see a good place to put in lubricant, and sometimes that makes things
worse. So especially since this thing was fancy and expensive, i think we
should be careful and do the right thing.
Hopefully it's not going to get worse, but I expect that since it was fine
before and now it's not, it's just going to produce more complaints. We might
have to put up a sign or something.
Next time I work on the front door, i'll put a louder speaker on the access
system so that people can better hear the beep indicating that they should pull
the door open.
-jake
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