Siler tumbler fit question

[ddoyle]

Jim,

I appreciate the insight into how you go about putting things together. Thanks.

I was getting frustrated trying to have a tumbler come off the lathe 'just right'. Lapping it in makes a pile of sense! Amazing how simple some things are once someone else tells you!

[little joe]

Jim,

It is a dam shame that people will not pay the extra for an even better product. IMHO locks should be a 500 dollar item, barrels the same (with quality to match) and let the chips fall where they may for wood and furniture. We seem to have raced to the bottom with abandon.

we'd all be better off saving and scrimping to buy one or two first quality guns then we are with safes full of 'good enough' guns. 

That said I am not really sure where you would find room to improve anything on the locks that I have from your shop? Keep up the good work you make the competition look pretty bad

ddoyle I,m sure the  next time you buy a Chambers lock send him a 500 dollar check.

[jerrywh]

 When ever you take a fly out of a lock stick it on a piece of masking tape and tape it to the bench someplace.  Now if you can only remember where you stuck the tape all will be fine. I get my wife to help me find stuff.

[ddoyle]

ddoyle I,m sure the  next time you buy a Chambers lock send him a 500 dollar check.

And I am sure I would never regret it. A stock regular price siler is already a smashing bargain, I cannot imagine what a bargain one would be if a guy paid for twice the care and attention.

[oldtravler61]

Jerrywh .One thing I use when working on a lock. Is a magnet tray underneath the area I'm Working. If it drops it's easy to find. Just a suggestion. Oldtravler

[David R. Pennington]

Wish more of the locks were available as kits.

[Clark Badgett]

Wish more of the locks were available as kits.

Me too. I don't want to build my own to save money, I just like doing stuff like this.

[Bob Roller]

Wish more of the locks were available as kits.

I have bought the external parts from both L&R for their Manton-Ashmore and Durs Egg and made the internals to a different specification. Did the same with the Chambers late Ketland. I'm making the last Manton this coming week.

Bob Roller

[ddoyle]

making the last Manton this coming week.

Bob,

Hope this allows you to spend more time enjoying your cars and other fun things.

[redheart]

Hey Guys,
Since the tumbler hole in the lockplate is not hardened I've often wondered if their would be any benefit to case hardening this hole with Kasenit and a torch.
Could you do this without warping the plate?
Would it help you to get more service out of a lock with less than desirable tolerances in this area?

[ddoyle]

Historically you'd need to be pretty low on the food chain not to have a case hardened lock.

my last attempt warped have not tried again,

See my comment about locks should cost 500 dollars.........

[Bob Roller]

making the last Manton this coming week.

Bob,

Hope this allows you to spend more time enjoying your cars and other fun things.

I still have lock work to do,mostly Hawken and triggers.
There may be a possibility that I might make 4 or 5 locks
a month.Time will tell.

Bob Roller