[Noisebridge-discuss] help glass door closed

[Rachel McConnell]

Note all, that the glass doors are not part of what we rent and we can't
do anything to them without express approval from the landlord.  I
suspect the Hos might be amenable to rekeying the locks and/or replacing
them with a twist-turn thing on the inside.  I think Dr J's plan was for
a more significant improvement but I don't think it was ever fully
agreed on and I forget the details now too.  Dr J do you want to weigh
in on this?

Alternately, Rachel if you seriously want to spearhead a rekeying
effort, I (or Andy) can contact the landlord and verify they're OK with
it.  It would be great if we could solve the problem and now is as good
a time as any.

Rachel M

Andy Isaacson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 03:36:11AM -0700, Rachel Lyra Hospodar wrote:
>> the only problem the lockbox solution doesn't solve: the locks on the 
>> glass doors are old and full of gunk.  the one on the right already has 
>> a key broken off in the outside lock.  if someone breaks a key off on 
>> the lefthand side, easier to do the more crud is inside the lock, the 
>> doors can't really be opened at all without addressing the same issues 
>> we're talking about right now, only in a probably way less convenient 
>> timeframe.
>>
>> we could probably open the locks up ourselves, clean them out, and thus 
>> make the lockbox system more single failure proof.
> 
> IIRC, Dr Jesus did open and clean them back in September/November ish.
> He also came up with a plan (and ISTR bought some gear) to do a more
> sophisticated locking mechanism for the glass doors -- or maybe it was a
> plan to replace the glass doors with something better, my memory is
> vague.  I do remember seeing some boxes of gear and hearing "oh yeah
> that's for the front doors" but I never saw a final resolution.
> 
> (At about the same time he re-keyed the 3rd floor door and the front
> gate to the "standard Noisebridge key", and we gave the other building
> tenant copies of that key.  Then at some later point, after New Years?,
> somebody pulled the lock out of the 3rd floor door entirely.  Sometimes
> do-ocracy is awesome, sometimes do-ocracy makes people wail "this is why
> we can't have nice things".)
> 
> So yeah, Dr J would be a good person to ask about this if he's still
> around... I haven't seen him in weeks (months?).
> 
> -andy
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