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'''Bold text'''Loiding is the use of a flat object such as a credit card to shim spring-latch locks on doors. It is a form of [[bypass]]. The flat object is slid between the latch and strike plate and used to retract the latch.  
'''Loiding''' is the use of a flat object such as a credit card to shim spring-latch locks on doors. It is a form of [[bypass]]. The flat object is slid between the latch and strike plate and used to retract the latch.  


Modern spring-latch doors use a deadlatch or dead locking plunger to prevent loiding.
Modern spring-latch doors use a deadlatch or dead locking plunger to prevent loiding.

Revision as of 19:02, 29 December 2010

Loiding

Loiding is the use of a flat object such as a credit card to shim spring-latch locks on doors. It is a form of bypass. The flat object is slid between the latch and strike plate and used to retract the latch.

Modern spring-latch doors use a deadlatch or dead locking plunger to prevent loiding.