Disc Lock Seizing

[Cooky]

I've had my Oxford Monster lock about a year and haven't been as caring with it as I should. The lock mechanism is now seizing up. I've tried to loosen it up a bit with the spray they give you with the lock (WD40 based I think) but to no avail.

Has anyone got any tips?

Andrew

 

[oblertone]

Be more caring !

Talk to it, maybe take it out to dinner, find things you both like to do and set aside time to do them.

But most of all ..........


Don't rely on WD40, the residue will form a paste with general crap and grind away the delicate bits. Repeated working of the action to free it up, then a squirt of furniture polish !

 

[bigkuri]

Not sure where to buy this - but you can get a silicon powder (looks like dust from a pencil lead) which you blow into the lock. Does not gunk up the lock, and stays in there.

Fat lot of good without knowing where though sorry; but maybe a good locksmith can help you out?

 

[Steptoe]

your lucky you've got one that locks -

they open no problem with a pen .

 

[cookie]

i use silicon spray on locks, usually with success.

stuff i have at the moment is made by wynnes.

 

[Cooky]

Thanks for the advice. I'll give them a go. This was a £60 lock which I bought after I found my previous and much cheaper Oxford lock being carefully picked by some teenagers with a crowbar. Obviously illiterate as a pen would have done the trick as Steptoe says.

Interestingly I was at a m/bike shop at the weekend and all the suspect Oxford locks were on sale. How strange?

 

[Mouse]

I don't think Monster locks are vulnerable to pens, they have a different shaped key.

I too have had problems with this sort of lock getting a bit stiff and hard to use though ... so far I have just cleaned it out thoroughly and then oiled it (3 in 1). Maybe i'll try some dry lubricant next time.

 

[Cooky]

I agree the monster locks aren't vulnerable to pens. Unfortunately mine's not very vulnerable to the key either.

 

[rdover]

The dust like stuff is called Carborundum and is pencil lead dust aka graphite. as an alternative I use Silkopen spray which, like WD40, does leave a residue but unlike wd40 it's the aforesaid graphite lubey stuff.

 

[Cooky]

Oh well couldn't find any of the dusty stuff so I went to Robert Dyas and got some good old WD40 (sorry Oblertone) and some 3 in 1 oil. Now very smooth. Thanks all. I think the trick with WD40 on a lock is to use some to loosen everything up and then a lot more to flush it all out .