A locksmith can use your good key to find the right wafers for each wafer position of a tumbler without needing one of your matching good tumblers. I have taken the wafers out of some sliding door tumblers and then mixed and matched wafers to make one tumbler work with my key. Not fast or flawless since I did not have all the exact right wafers from my 2 donors. For a locksmith it should be a snap. Mark
Jim Felder wrote: > Guess I wasn't too clear, or else I was and I don't get what you're saying... > > I have two unmatched/unkown tumblers (I guess you call them) that came > out of the donor handles. They are from a late model vanagon and are > in nice shape, left over from the swap (I put my "old" tumblers in > both new handles). > > I also have a sliding door whose tumbler doesn't work with my key, so > I have to reach through the front door and slide the inside button and > then close and lock the front door. > > Since I have these two spare tumblers, I am wondering is one of them > can be outfitted with the proper wafers that would match my > properly-keyed doors? And to do so, would I need to pull one of my > properly-keyed tumblers out to show the locksmith, or could the > locksmith figure out what wafers I need by looking at my key? > > Jim > |
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