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Door Latch Dis-Assembly? - Chris KC - 05-12-2020
I have a pair of working door latches which would benefit from a little detailed repair and re-finishing.
However, having stared long and hard, I see no obvious way to dismantle the latch bolts for maintenance i.e. reversibly.
The levers look they might be freed by drifting out the square pivot tubes, but will they go back together again soundly?
Does anyone have experience of how these can be stripped and re-assembled without tears?
I'd rather leave them as they are than risk messing them up.
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RE: Door Latch Dis-Assembly? - Ian Dunford - 05-12-2020
A quick splash o’ WD for’ee should save thee a girt deal ov bovver,my and some.
RE: Door Latch Dis-Assembly? - Chris KC - 05-12-2020
'ee might have a point Ian.
Leastways moine's a point...
RE: Door Latch Dis-Assembly? - Renaud - 05-12-2020
That's not fair fellows, speaking in tongues for the poor alien...
RE: Door Latch Dis-Assembly? - Chris Garner - 05-12-2020
Plus Gas, Chris
RE: Door Latch Dis-Assembly? - Chris KC - 05-12-2020
I should perhaps add that there is a certain manque of metal (just for you Renaud!) at some key wear points which no amount of squirty lube is going to put back on! Not overly bothered about cosmetics or friction, which is at any rate OK. I was hoping to either build up or replace worn areas of the latch bolt and bullet posts (the latter need not entail stripping the latch bolt of course).
RE: Door Latch Dis-Assembly? - Jamie - 05-12-2020
I have recently rebuilt my locks. After a good soaking in oil, the square bar tapped out. The spring tongue had a tang in the pressed steel which stops the tongue going too far out. I needed to fiddle around to get past this. My tongues were worn and needed a piece of metal on the back to build them up again. A bit of bending of the pressed steel where it had been bent over the years, a good clean and lubricate and it all reassembled well. It all operates smoothly now.
Regards,
Jamie.
RE: Door Latch Dis-Assembly? - Howard Wright - 06-12-2020
Hi Chris
Probably doesn’t help but these are the two locks from my RK. As Jamie says it is possible to pull out the latch once the actuator arm is out. One of the actuators on my car was missing so I fabricated the one in the right.
Cheers
Howard
RE: Door Latch Dis-Assembly? - David.H - 06-12-2020
I dismantled the lockon my RK...it was intact but worn and I aralditeď some shim stainless steel to the worn part of the case and it makes the tongue much less floppy...and thus the door no longer rattles.
David
RE: Door Latch Dis-Assembly? - Chris KC - 06-12-2020
Thank you Jamie / David / Howard. I think though the structure of my locks is slightly different, there's no way the latch bolt can be 'drifted out' as the enclosed end is deeper than the only slot it can exit by.
Having now slept on the question I see I have misunderstood how the lock is assembled.
I think removing the 4 rivets and perhaps also the 'bullet' post will result in the whole thing falling apart in 2 halves, whereupon all will be free. Except possibly the lever pivot, which I'm assuming can be tapped out (and later tapped back in again...)
Whether this is actually a good idea I will consider deeply...