A Timed-Release Closet Door

There's a huge demand for timed-release products in the selfbondage world. Handcuffs, safes, locks are some of the pricier items. Yesterday I devised a simple means of locking my closet door for a specified period. There are magnetic door locks that are expensive and difficult to install inconspicuously. There's even a security code lock sold by Schlage that you can open with a pin number on the pad or via your cell-phone... how's that for telecommuting Masterdom.

My solution is cheap, easily hidden and effective. My approach involves a DIY Winch, your typical ice release device, rope (clothes line,) an eye hook, and an over-the-door hanger hook. And of couse the closet, but this will work for any door that is opposite a wall.

Let's start with a few assumptions. First, you'll need to drill holes into your walls, they're easy to fill if you rent, but you may not be okay with it. Second, I'm assuming your closet door opens outward and is a normal door, not a pocket or accordion door, because those won't work.

Secure the eye hook at the base of the wall opposite the door so that it's 4 inches from the opening side of the door. You'll want a decent guage of metal, it's the anchor that will prevent you from opening your door. It would be best if you could predrill the hole as this will prevent you from splitting the baseboard.

1. Attach the ice release mechanism to the eye hook.
2. Attach the anchor of the DIY Winch to the ice release mechanism.
3. Tie a slipknot around the hook of the over-the-door hanger and feed the tails through the DIY Winch.
4. Mount the door hook on the bottom of the door with the hook inside the closet.
5. Shut the closet door, with the tails of the "pull cord" pulled under the door so you can access them with the closet door shut.
6. Pull the "pull cord" until the slack is removed.

Your closet door should now be locked shut until the ice release mechanism passes through the eye hook. Until then, the hook on the door will taughtly keep the door shut.

Now let your imagination run wild. You can put the keys to your cuffs and locks inside the closet, you could add another over the door anchor point to the top of the closet door and wait to be released.

You could even lock yourself in the closet if you move the winch and ice release to the opposite wall in the bedroom, run the rope from the bottom door hook, through the eye hook in the back of the closet, back out to the otherside of the room. You'd need much more rope but it would work.

Some closet doors are fairly cheap and can bend enough at the top that an anchor would pop out, but you can still place items in the back of the closet on a hook well out of reach.

The nice part is the eye hook is the only permanent piece. You could remove it if you needed to, but I recommend keeping it in place because it's sturdiest on the first mount. Just put a shoe or box in front of it and no one should ever notice.

To repair the hole, just ask someone at a home improvement shop and they'll be able tell you what you need to patch a small hole in a wall.