Riopel is Canada’s leading mailbox company for 50 years. Since its inception, this company has offered reliable products and continuously adapted to meet the needs of users and Canada Post. It offers a complete range of mailbox locks, post lockers, locker rooms or padlocks with numbers or keys for residential, and in all sectors of the commercial.
The Riopel mailbox is almost universal, apartment, building, offices, schools, hospitals, use it for the secure reception of mail.
Residential Riopel Mailbox Lock
Riopel locks are the ones most often seen in mailboxes that are inside buildings or outside.
Whether on
- vertical mailboxes,
- horizontal mailboxes,
- mailboxes for the outdoors as we meet more and more in recent years in Quebec.
They are reliable and withstand the sometimes extreme temperatures of Quebec. The locks used are of the “cam, 5 pins” type, they are delivered to the customer with 2 keys.
Canada Post Lock
The postmen are very familiar with Riopel products, their boilerplate allows them to enter buildings and buildings in order to reach the mail boxes.
The “mat” is called the mother lock.
Canada Post intends to place all mailboxes outside
Common Mailbox Lock Problems
- The key spins in a vacuum
- The key gets stuck inside the barrel
- lost key
How to change a lock of this type
If you have the key or if the door of the box and open, it will be easy for you to disassemble the lock to replace it, you will have to follow the following steps :
- Unscrew the nut that holds the lock to the mailbox door.
- If the nut is rusty, you can use a gripper to remove it.
- Remove all components of the old lock.
If you have lost the key or it remains blocked, then you will have to force the lock.
- In order not to hurt yourself, equip yourself with gloves and glasses.
- With a drill, of at least 14.4 Volts of power, equipped with a metal drill, place yourself perpendicular to the lock and drill the lock by piercing the barrel.
- As soon as the lock is punctured, the door should open practically on its own.
- Remove all components from the lock
Once the hole is released, it remains to mount the new lock.
- Place the barrel in the door.
- Insert the key to ensure that you mount the barrel in the correct position.
- Check that the door closes correctly
- Screw the nut with a wrench and tighten firmly.
A handyman’s job
And here your new lock is installed, it’s a handyman’s job that requires a little attention.
The personal key of a mailbox can be redone in any key reproduction workshop, that of the postman is extremely controlled and regulated.
If despite these explanations you can not install your lock, do not hesitate to call Locksmith Momo.: 514 999 4341
