[Noisebridge-discuss] help glass door closed

[Rachel Lyra Hospodar]

most excellent.

i am definitely going to stop by ABC and get a prelim quote/some 
guidance on what is possible, as a first step.  it would be great to 
also find out:

-dr jesus project status, abandoned or pending? parts we can use?

-general landlord parameters for what we can do.  if they want those 
doors to be locked regularly then i am sure they will be in favor of us 
making them easier for our myriad of users.  the fact that the locking 
directions are kind of complex 
(https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Moving/2169_Mission/Access_Control#Front_Door) 
basically guarantees that we won't be compliant with locking it as it 
stands.

-whose keys to this door are most original in case we need them.

R.


Rachel McConnell wrote:
> 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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