Anlin French Hoppe-Lock System Replacement: Step-by-Step Guide

Hey guys, Sean of American Window Concepts, and today we're gonna do something a little special. I've been requested to make a video on how to replace the mortise lock cassette, the part that makes all this work. Over time, what can happen is the recoil for this thing to go back up, well, it can go bad. I'm gonna show you how to take out this locking mechanism and install it. Now, I don't have a brand new one, but this one in here works just great. How to take out this little guy here, which is essentially this. When you turn this, it activates and pushes out your deadbolt. You cannot get any of this done without pulling this deadbolt out, so this guy has to come out, and as you can see, this guy here is gonna get in the way of being able to pull this thing out of your cassette. So what you do is you gotta take this, well, something like this, right, with a small little point you can use, and you set it up at the top, and you pull down. You should be able to feel a bite. Now, what that does is it allows you to make it straight in line like this, okay? I'm gonna come in here, and I'm gonna do the exact same thing I just showed you, but inside the door. So I'm gonna go in, and I'm gonna find, there we go, okay, so there, we're good at that point. Now, what I wanna do is this screw right here is holding this part in, so let's pull that out. It's just that one, it's just that one screw, and then it should come out. Look at how easy that was. So I'm gonna lay this guy down, and we'll get back to that later. What I wanna do is I want to pull the two screws that are on the faceplate on the inside of your house. So we'll pull these out, one, two, okay. Now, I'll pull these apart, and I'll set it aside. Now, I'm gonna leave this in for the moment because I still need to take an Allen wrench to undo this. Now, you can do this step first if you want. It'd probably make sense if I did, but what you wanna do is you wanna go in and undo, just find the correct size. I mean, I believe this is a metric. It's close to a 1 1⁄8 inch, but it's metric because this is German, the Hobby Lock system, and we're gonna separate this handle, and I'm gonna show you how it looks. There it goes. It's a little soft, okay? So here's what you got. Do not lose this, okay? So leave it in there. Now, this part comes straight to the outside. Well, it took the outside plate with it, but essentially, this is what you're dealing with. This is how these two go together, just like that, and you can see the hole here where the little pin is plunged into that and keeps it tight. So anyways, let's pull off this plate, okay, just the way it is, and we're gonna set this aside. We're gonna deal with this a little bit later. So now, you're left with this. I'm gonna take off every single one of these little set screws, okay? Now, I'm gonna leave a couple here at the top. I don't wanna mess with this. Take off the top one. So we'll take this. Take this one to separate this and this, but we don't wanna take off this one and this one, okay? Now, we'll go down to this one all the way down. Look at that, all right. So here we go. We can pull this out as one unit. Now, you see how this came off? Okay, so here's the cassette that you would get from whatever place. This is the cassette that they would send you if you're planning on doing this yourself. So on the inside here, you'll see this little T mark, this guy here. This is what slides up and down. All right, so that T needs to line up with this port right there, okay? So all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come inside here and I'm gonna line this guy up. See if I can't get you a better angle. Okay, so what I've done is I've aligned up this part here, this little mechanism that will activate your deadbolt, and now it is in line with your new mortise lock. Now, you take that tiny little screw, okay, and the first thing you're gonna do is you're going to fix them together. Okay, now we're good. You can let this go. Once you've done that, you feed this back into the case, right? When you're doing these handles, don't make everything super tight. And I think any mechanic would tell you, you don't tighten everything up, you know, right out of the gate. You tighten this, tighten that. You gotta make sure that the parts that are important, like, I don't know, your handle are going to fit right inside. You make it fit first, and then you snug everything else around your already installed handle. Make sense? So let's pull this apart. You make sure that the handle is set right. You have your plate. Now we're just going to install it right back inside this hole. You can see this little square section here, and work it all the way in, and make sure that everything lines up well. And then you take your other face plate, and you set it, okay? We'll do the little handle after, but what we want to do is we want to set this. And I'll set this 75% tight. I'm not going to tighten it all the way. So it's mainly done. Not too tight. Good there. So it still moves around a little bit, but that's fine. For all intents and purposes, that's okay. We can always tighten that later. But what we want to do is we want to get this thing set up so that way we can reinstall the handle. Get this guy set. It'll kind of do it almost automatically. See, there's a little pin that gets inside the little bar in between. This is exactly how it was set before. You want to have a little bit of play, a little bit of play. So that way this thing will operate freely. You don't want it to be so tight against each other that you push down and it just stays there because it's so tight. So got to have a little play. There's nothing wrong with that. Okay. Now, why do we keep this a little bit loose? Here's why. This. Okay. So you want to reinstall this right back inside. And the key is to the outside of the house. Am I correct? Okay. So we'll feed this right back in. Now again, don't mess with this. Okay. Feed it right back in. And there's enough play on the other side to accept it. There we go. Once you get here, the direction of the lock, how you would lock it is the direction you turn the lock. Don't turn it this way now, because if you do that, you're going to have to reset and reuse this to get yourself back into gear. All right. Turn it in the direction that you would turn your lock. In this case, counterclockwise. Okay. We're set. Now, when I try to go back, it ain't going to do nothing. But we're set. You can see that moving around. Reinstall all of my screws. And I'll start at the top and work my way down. Another neat trick. Let's talk about this. Is your handing. Let's say this door is an out swing and you get sent a lock and you're like, oh man, it's the wrong lock because this is facing the wrong way. It should be collapsing in or it's a left hand. And they sent me a right hand. Check this out. All you have to do is pull this guy out like a so, and then it'll turn. Isn't that cool? So you can actually make it an in swing or an out swing lock left hinge or an out, you know, or a right hinge lock by just pulling this out, pull out and twist. Same thing is true for your detent button. Same thing. Pull out, right? Take your last screw. You're going to start to set it. And then you just want this in the middle, right there. Not too far out. Not too far in because you don't want it to bind on the cassette inside there. There you go. All right. Test it. Yep. Yup. Good. Okay. Everything works. So last thing we're going to do is we're just going to finish tightening up the face, the face plate. And you don't want these to be overly tight because you don't want it to bear down on your cassette inside there. Make it so that way everything works super freely. And you're down the road. Let's see if it works. Good. That's it. That's all you got to do for your, this again is an Anlin Malibu French door. I hope this video helps. And if you have any questions, you can always reach out. Otherwise, make it a great day. Hey guys, if you live in the Ventura or Long Beach area and are interested in a free in-home estimate, go to our website, americanwindowconcepts.com and we'll reach back out to you as soon as possible. If you guys find this information valuable and you want to continue to learn more about windows and doors, subscribe to our channel. Thank you so much.