Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:31 pm by entropy
Was it improperly assembled? We will never know. The irony is that I was in the process of disassembling the thing, and would probably have been able to fix whatever was wrong with it. But, as I was going through the LOBC removal instructions, I rotated the hub by 180 to make it match the pictures in Kaba's instructions. And that's where it went wrong. In retrospect, I should have known that was a bad idea, if I had stopped to think for two seconds. I still have no idea what happened. It almost seemed like the cable was shoved into the gap between the gear and axle, although for the life of me I can't imagine how that's possible.
The good news is that I got it pretty cheap, even for ebay. I'll probably try and rig it up with my own wires somehow.
By the way, what I've discovered for these locks on ebay is that if you can wait for one that is not in the original box it'll go for half the price or less. But then of course you have no idea what the previous owner did to it.