Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:36 am by Josephus
So I received three Americans yesterday and I already have an issue with one of them. I did not notice this problem when I was gutting them and reducing the pin count, but one of them is very hard to turn. I put some noticeable marks in the top of the keyway just trying to make it false set. There was not a chance of getting counter rotation so I just forced it back and after some trying managed to open it again. I am not certain if I could have opened it at all if it had more pins. It was not jammed. I did not forget a spring in there or anything like that. Outside of the housing the plug works normally.
The problem is the faceplate. Even after I loosened the screw to the point where it was on the verge of falling out the faceplate puts an immense amount of pressure on the face of the plug. It takes some serious force to turn. The other two Americans that I have do not have this problem. Could I be doing something wrong? How can I fix it?