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What are common causes for a door not to lock?

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Try shooting a thin penetrant into the lock, and trying it. Do this daily for a week and if it doesn't work, replace the lock.

not enough info. are you saying key doesn't work or manually locking by hand won't work, or both, key turns but door doesn't lock??? etc.

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