Hi people. I'm after advice about new lock barrels please. After my girlfriend used my Beetle key to open my Van by mistake I have realised that any key (even my front door key!!!) will open all the locks.
Does anyone know if you can buy a new set of lock barrels that are matched to one key and if you can put them in to old handels???
Cheers
Crackers
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Re: New Lock Barrels
Problem is most likely the handles too
What happens is little segments wear grooves in the barrel bore in the handle and eventually they can be opened by near enough anything
To fix mine I bought replacement handles then rekeyed the new barrels to the existing key using a mixture of new and old segments
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What happens is little segments wear grooves in the barrel bore in the handle and eventually they can be opened by near enough anything
To fix mine I bought replacement handles then rekeyed the new barrels to the existing key using a mixture of new and old segments
http://www.hallvw.clara.net/lockpart.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: New Lock Barrels
When I noticed this on one of my locks it turned out that someone had removed all the tumblers from the barrel, remove one and have a look
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Re: New Lock Barrels
Crackers211 wrote: Does anyone know if you can buy a new set of lock barrels that are matched to one key and if you can put them in to old handels???
Cheers
Crackers
I saw some at Tristar Connection's stall the other weekend.
Try them - http://www.tristar-connection.de/index.php?lang=en
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Re: New Lock Barrels
Custom and Commercial sell new barrels and do a keying service