Date:         Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:31:03 -0700
Reply-To:     mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Need '82 water tank key
Comments: To: Shawn Wright <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA>
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The metal keys are not all the same, by any stretch. You need to take
the cap to a locksmith or send it to the list locksmith. My local lock
shop keeps a copy of every Westy tank key they have made over the years.
When a customer comes in for a missing key, they try all the different
ones they have first. Often they have it, if not they take the lock
apart and make a key to fit, adding that key to the collection.

mark

Shawn Wright wrote:

>I'm still looking for a key to the water tank cap on my '82 Westy. It is a metal
>key which fits the brass lock in the round plug covering the water tank filler
>hole. (Not the later style plastic keys which fit the plastic flap, this lock is
>round and fits in the water filler hole, under the flap).
>
>Or do I need to find a locksmith?
>
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