[Collins] KWS-1 key?

[Chuck Kembring]

Hello All

I just had a similar experience with a base station cabinet I wanted to get 
a key for so I took the locking handle to a professional locksmith, he 
looked up the locks number in his computer and punched out a perfect key - 
No fuss, no Muss. He didn't even break a sweat!

Before you get to crazy, give it a try!

73,
Chuck    WB3LGG
Cochranville, Pa.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj at netins.net>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Collins] KWS-1 key?


> Thumbing through the manual, I see no reference to the key. But I believe 
> its a common cam lock that a good hardware store or locksmith (or 
> McMaster-Carr) will have in stock. If the tongue is special it should 
> transfer to a stock lock. Alternatively a good locksmith should be able to 
> take it apart and adjust or replace the disks to fit a key on hand or to 
> carve a key to fit. Often such keys are cut in increments of depth or 
> remaining height, so its not too hard to predict where to cut a key. And 
> its likely the original Chicago number like 2135 indicates heights or 
> notches of depths 2 1 3 and 5. I know that applies to other lock makers.
>
> Lock replacment is probably the easiest.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ, Technical Adviser to the Collins Radio Association
>
> On 12/27/2013 9:23 AM, KA9EGW wrote:
>> I'm off in a couple hours to bring the KWS-1 home...the front door is off
>> the power supply and there's no key...would I be right in guessing this
>> takes the universal Chicago Lock 2135? 73, Brian KA9EGW
>>
>>
>
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