Excellent news, I was installing another tumbler (or trying) and broke the brass bushing that the lock turns inside. It might be time to put this thing down for a while. The only thing I can think of is maybe getting a short piece of tubing with an OD the same as the ID of the hole that the lock assembly fits into. I could notch it at the rear to keep the tumbler from going all of the way in, and I could even cut a path for the tumbler pins to fall into when locked for removal of the key.
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Hey Ozz, if you can post a picture of the tumbler assem. and the OD size, We use tumblers at work in our desks that are two peice. They have a barrel that screw to the drawer front and then the guts are installed at final assem. and I can get all the parts or just tumblers and a universal key to open every desk we have ever made or indivdual keys. I also am bad to take stuff apart to see how it works and have three or four different kinds of lock mechinisms layin around in the shop. The barrel assem. is aluminum, I think and the rest is brass from the ones at work.The reason I say this they are easy to "redneck" machine with a grinder and a drill. You may be able to use one or not, one never knows.
