The powder coaters are taking awhile.. They got a hotel balcony fencing contract so its been a few weeks with no powder coat.
Hopefully next week I can start reassembly.
In the mean time. I ordered x4 locksets from Yaton and they arrived. What a perfect time to inventory and clean some locks. .
I started by inventory and came up with x8 CP locks, and x12 Straight tangs along with x20 5380 locks.
I started unthreading the locknuts and then the ring nuts.
The threads were beat up around the big part of the lock and the ring nuts were getting stuck on barbs and gunk, so I had to get a bigger wrench and pop some of them off.
I decided to soak them in ISO for 20 minutes and then steel brush the threads and apply Silicon grease to seal the dry steel, stop the pitting, and grease the threads.
A lot of the tangs looked *better, but no cleaning would take the pitting away. I may wire brush brush them later.. I just sealed them with a layer of grease and called it.
I grabbed one of the nut free locks and the front popped out along with 4 pins and 3 springs! It scared me as I thought I would need a watchmakers skillset to repair this lock.
I calmed down and grabbed another lock and popped the face out intentionally, found every piece on the floor, and realized the pins are simply catches over springs and had it back together in no time..
I decided not to soak the locks and grabbed my steel brush instead and cleaned the fronts and threading for the nuts and ring nuts (especially).
After brushing I applied the grease and was pleasantly surprised.
The 5380 locks cleaned up!
This will be a shiny treat for my cabs, and keep my Jamma door from falling on the floor.