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Yesterday the manager of the local bank here, who I happen to be personal friends with, called me.
"My key is stuck, and I can't get it out," he said.
I drove to the bank and discovered that he had been sitting alone at the door of the Bank for quite some time ,beside a folding gate with a new door latch. He showed me how the key was able to rotate the plug and easily move the latch out into the locked position and down inside the frame of the gate into the closed position. "The key won't come out.." he said.
I tried out a new product I recently acquired called the Tufoil Lubit-8 as a lubricant and jiggled the key a bit. Noticeably the rotation was easier but still, the key did not come out of the broaching. What did move was the plug housing itself. When I pulled on the key the plug would move out approx. 5mm. Surely this little movement was misaligning the driver pins from sliding upward into the housing.
I held the plug tight against the housing so it would not come out when I pulled on the key. Viola out it came, and I handed it to the manager. He told me that the same problem occurred the night before but he wasn’t there. I told him how to retrieve the key and hoped he would not have the problem again.
If only all my call-outs could be so easy.