Deleted account 210609001
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I bought a BWM top box at the weekend. The people in the dealers didn't exactly fit the lock barrel correctly - the whole thing pulled out with the key when I got home.
Trying desperately to avoid another return trip, I took it apart and found that somewhere along the line, it was buggered up - one spring wedged in the wrong place, one spring missing completely and one wrong plate fitted - but by luck the key still turned the barrel.
Anyway, the good news - by carefully dismantling the lock, I managed to sort it out, although I had to remove the offending plate and re-fit the spring in the "plate" that holds the barrel in place.
So, the good news: I now know how the barrels work, having previously never looked in one.
The bad news is that I needn't have spent two hours carefully trying to see how it all worked - there are two identical locks in the bloody panniers!
Trying desperately to avoid another return trip, I took it apart and found that somewhere along the line, it was buggered up - one spring wedged in the wrong place, one spring missing completely and one wrong plate fitted - but by luck the key still turned the barrel.
Anyway, the good news - by carefully dismantling the lock, I managed to sort it out, although I had to remove the offending plate and re-fit the spring in the "plate" that holds the barrel in place.
So, the good news: I now know how the barrels work, having previously never looked in one.
The bad news is that I needn't have spent two hours carefully trying to see how it all worked - there are two identical locks in the bloody panniers!
