John,
I removed mine and did a little home locksmithing with a file to make all of
the locks work on one key. You don't actually need to keep all of the
tumblers in the barrel, anyway. Mine only had four in each, so it was
pretty easy to deal with. The prospect of someone actually picking or
duplicating a Spitfire lock is pretty silly - and they could just unsnap the
top.
Anyway, a file can eliminate the inconvenience factor of different locks.
If you give up, you can have a locksmith match them, too.
-Mark
'77 Spit 1500
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hobson [mailto:goalie_john@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:23 AM
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: lock barrel removal
Is it possible to remove the barrel from the exterior door handle?
The reason I ask is that I have just changed my exterior door handles for
chrome ones but the locks on the lh and rh sides are different so I need
2 keys(and one of the barrels is a bit stiff). So it would be good if I
could put the barrels from my old locks into my new locks.
cheers
John
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