 The best kind of doors are the doors you have to explain. All right, welcome, welcome to Unhinged with The DoorDork where door hardware nerds get together, we knock and we slam on different door fails. We learn, we laugh, sometimes we cry, you know, because of how bad these installs are. But most importantly, we have fun while we learn a little bit about door hardware. Today, we do have two very special guests, Mr. Bryce and Tom from Capital Lock. I met these two at the MSC conference. And I think one of the nights, we were up to like three or four o'clock in the morning just talking about doors and technology and what the industry looks like. So I'm so happy to have them on the show today. Bryce, Tom, why don't you introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about what you do and a fun fact. Well, Benjy, Mia, it's great to be here. My name is Bryce Clark. I am owner and vice president of Capital Lock here in Madison, Wisconsin. So we provide locksmith services to most of Southern Wisconsin area. Fun fact about me, I'm a certified public accountant. So in a former life, I used to do taxes, got burnt out from that and joined the door hardware game. So now I get to work with my hands every day and it's always a lot of fun. So, hey, I'm Tom Kurt, excited to be here. Thanks for having us on Benjy and Mia. And I am the sales director at Capital Lock. So I do a lot of in the field stuff, doing a lot of site surveys and following up with our locksmiths on this is how the job needs to be done, taken care of. And I have a background in criminal justice. So I have a great passion for security, keeping buildings secure. And then kind of a cool, fun fact about me, I used to sell French fries and I got tired of supply chain issues in the industry. And I always make jokes of rice about why don't we just go into business together? And you know what? It took us 27 years, but we did it, so. That's awesome. I love the balance between it. It's like the brains and the bronze or like the, you guys make a great partnership, but so glad, I'm glad you're here. And as always, you know her, you love her. This is Mia Merrill. Why don't you jump on and say hello? Hi, yeah. Welcome to episode 12. We're just complaining a full year of unhinged. So very exciting. Should like, cheers to 12 episodes. You guys. Cheers. Or skull since you guys are. Oh no, skull is Minnesota. Go back. Go. Go back. Sorry, sorry about that. Sorry, sorry. Sorry. Your folks, I'm sorry. Fun fact. So I am inspired by the Mr. T poster behind them. I, a celebrity that I have met and also distantly related to is Joey Logano of NASCAR fame. So my fun fact. Nice. Any royalties heading your way? No, no, no. I've only met him once and, but our parents were close when they were young. They used to live close and also, you know, play together and everything like that when they were little. But you can get us on a list for some tickets to a race. Doubtful. Doubtful. I follow him on social media, but he probably does not know that I exist. The funny thing is, is actually our first two kids we had like within weeks of each other. So like they had their first and then like three weeks later we had our first and then their second. We had, I think it was like they had theirs and then like days later we had ours. And then they announced their third pregnancy and I was like, oh no. But no, thank God. All right. Now Benji, what's your fun fact? Yeah. Speaking of the famous people that you're related to, a couple of years back actually found out from my grandma that I'm distantly related to the Walter Schlage from, you know, Schlage Company. So not very famous overall in the world, but very famous in the hardware industry. Yeah. And I'm gonna apparently inherit some keys that have been hanging up in one of the shops back in the day. So I'm excited about that. You're working for the wrong company. Or they're working for the wrong company, I don't know. Awesome. So let's get started. For those who don't know how Unhinge works, I will pop up a door hardware picture, a door hardware fail, a poor install, something about that will knock and will slam on the door. We'll give out any helpful tips and then we'll give it a knocking score. The knocking score, one being not too bad, like it's interesting or unique, but it's not needing to be like written up by the fire marshal and 10 being pretty knocking bad. We gotta get this taken care of. Let's get the AHA involved. How does that sound? You guys ready? How's it do it? Yeah. Do you think we're gonna have another 10 this time? We just got our first 10 last episode. Okay. Let me share my screen. Are you guys waiting for it? Are you ready? I don't know if you're ready. The anticipation is killing me. Come on, Benji. From speaking with you guys, staying up late a couple of times, I knew that you guys do a lot of Adam's right jobs. And so I thought I'd share this one with you. I thought this was interesting. Wow. That has seen some better days. Definitely better days. We have thumb turns on both sides. Is that what I'm looking at? That's one way to do it. Put in a, I don't know what you wanna call it, a set screw of their own kind there on the left side. Kind of rabbet it in their own set screw and that's wild. Yeah. So they drilled in their own set screw or something went wrong and like, that's interfering with the locking mechanism right there. So they probably did some damage to this door. Being locked from both sides, I mean. Which side do you want locked? You think it's just to keep the door closed so the wind doesn't blow it open or something? I mean, anybody can let themselves in or out, no problem. Yeah. It's an honesty door, you know? Like it keeps people honest. Right. So this is an investable. Yeah. You can see the other door there behind. So I don't think this is like keeping anything secure. Maybe knock on wood cause it's not keeping anything secure. What is their solution to a passage function or is this a new part number we don't know about as a double privacy function? It also looks like the one that is on the outside has a lot of weather wearing. Is that, it looks like there's corrosion. Yeah. So I almost feel like this does get, like there's corrosion happening with this block. So I'm wondering if it is exposed to the outside sometimes or maybe they leave this door propped open when business is open or something. Or it could be one of those classic, oh, we moved the door. We can reuse this, it's still good. That's true. We do see a lot of those where like, well, that's not the right function. And some guy comes in like, I can make it the right function. Potentially a lot of sidewalk salt, maybe somewhere with snow with a lot could be brought into the vestibule and weather it, see it all the time here in Madison. Yeah, prop, prop. Actually, I know where this is from. If you're not following the locksmith journal, he's from like West Texas. So I doubt there's gonna be much snow. So I was gonna say if he's new to golf, then the air could be real salty and humid. And that would not be unreasonable. On the Oregon coast, we see a lot, a lot of locks look like this, like just on the Oregon coast. And there's a lot of like shops and stuff. So Adam's Right is a good go-to product for those storefront applications. So I feel like there is something happening that we don't understand, but I thought that the functionality was kind of fun. Okay, any last comments or before we give it a knocking score? What do you guys think? I think we pretty much hit it off on the head, right? I think we rate this sucker. All right, knocking score. What do you get? Well, I mean, I don't see any huge infractions on life safety code. If you can unlock it from both sides, I'm gonna go with a 6.8. 6.8, not too bad. Yeah, I mean, it seems like it's functional. It certainly could look better, but you know, Adam's Right doesn't write. So I bet it still functions as however these guys were intending it to function. So I'm just gonna give it a 3.3. I like the decimal points. I normally don't get decimal points, but I feel like there's a spot for decimal points that... No rookie scores here. I'm gonna keep it easy. I'm just gonna say 3, because well, you're not gonna get trapped inside. And I'm hoping that there's some way to lock the outer vestibule doors for security when you need it at the end of the day. So no real crazy life safety issues. I'm worried about them making their own security screw here, and then I'm worried about the wear, like the corroding that's going on. But other than that, pretty low. So I would agree. If that outside door is lockable and this isn't needed for security, it's definitely a lower score. One of my concerns, and I was actually just thinking about this, is someone could potentially lock and hold it from the outside in a life safety situation. So if that happened, I would say it's a higher score. It didn't happen. I would say like most daily use, it's not that bad. I'll jump on to the next one. If you wanna be featured on a future episode of Unhinged, please leave a comment down below.