Team Door Handle Does It's Worst

[Pat Korach]

Mike

I found that the later 5000s have a different size tumbler in the door
locks than the earlier 5000s. BTDT

Pat Korach
Kirkland,WA.


mike wrote:

> the cheap one i got from g&s had a lock where the key
> was not centred in the barrel and so i couldn't swop
> either the complete barrel or the tumblers
>
> mike
>
>  --- Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net> wrote: > At
> 11:45 PM +0000 12/2/01, mike wrote:
> > >But...on some of the cheap ones you can't swop the
> > >lock barrels over
> >
> > Don't have to.  Transfer each brass "pin" from the
> > old barrel to the
> > new.  Check by inserting the key.  Piece of cake.
> > If you're nervous
> > about mixing them up, mark the old body and the head
> > of each pin with
> > a sharpie somehow..but even if you dropped them all
> > on the floor, you
> > have a 50% chance of getting the right pin within
> > half the number of
> > pin slots(5?  6? I can't remember) and each pin gets
> > progressively
> > easier.
> >
> > The locks work -so- much better when you take them
> > apart completely,
> > clean them thoroughly, and reinstall.  If you ever
> > have reason to
> > take the door panel off, do the lock and door
> > handle(particularly
> > non-flush door handles, which can be completely
> > disassembled,
> > cleaned/polished with a mototool wire wheel, lubed,
> > and reassembled
> > to work good as new.)
> >
> > B
> > --
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> > temporary
> > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben
> > Franklin
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