[Tigers] exchange door locking devices

[Tom Witt]

/"Can anyone recommend a topnotch Sunbeam lock and key person?"/

Sunbeam specific..., likely they are all under the soil in the mother 
country by now.//However there are probably a craftsmen or two out there 
- somewhere/. /Hopefully some knows./
/

While some may consider this barbaric I have done the following out of 
necessity. Locks typically have either pins or wafers.

Pins://I will insert the key and play around with the pins until I find 
those that come flush with the rotating tumbler. Sometimes pins can be 
doubled up to meet that height. Other times I have filed pins to meet 
that height.  Generally there are also non-rotating, opposing pins in 
the housing. Any tumbler pin that doesn't come flush I leave it and its 
opposing pin out. While this lessens the strength of the lock to 
rotation it still offers a degree of a locking effect (better than nothing).

Wafers: I find them easier. I will juggle them around so that with the 
key inserted there is the least degree of wafer height outside the 
tumbler. Then whatever remains outside the tumbler circumference I file 
off. Again, this lessens the strength of the lock to rotation but still 
offers a degree of a locking effect.

So, if all else fails.., this is at least a functional option and given 
that historically locking was not a primary consideration you would gain 
something even if not full strength. The free spinning lock seems like 
it has no pins or wafers. The key that jams I'm not sure if you mean on 
insertion, or once inserted it wouldn't rotate. That could be 
corrosion/dirt or just the wrong key for the pin/wafer configuration.
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