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02-18-05, 05:55 PM
Hi, all!
My key doesn't fit into my bicycle lock anymore.
I live in NYC and I have a New York Chain with Kryptonite EV Disc Lock (picture (http://store.proitalia.com/132052.html)). It worked fine last year. When the colder weather came, I stopped riding for a month, and then finally decided to remove the lock and the chain from the bicycle rack outside my school for the winter. Well, the key didn't fit into the hole in the lock. I thought maybe the lock was frozen through, so I decided to wait until the spring to sort things out. That time has come.
The key still doesn't fit into the lock. The key is tubular and the hole is tubular, but the inner cylindrical post in the center of the hole of the lock has somehow grown to a size just a tad larger than the cylindrical hole in the center of the key. The key just doesn't go in into its hole, it's useless to push it through - the key is too small. The problem is not with they key though, since I tried my backup key and it doesn't fit either. I even suspected that maybe this is not my lock, maybe someone stole mine and someone else hanged another lock of another type in the same place, but how could that be? The lock is in the exact same spot I left it in, the chain wrapped around the rack the same way I always wrapped it. The lock itself looks exactly like the one I had, except it's missing the transperent plastic keyhole cover and some of the writing is scratched off. No one has touched it but me for the past couple of months. It was a bit rusted after the winter, so I tried filling it up with WD-40, but that didn't help either. I don't know of any other Kryptonite locks that look exactly like this model except for having larger keys. My only theory is that someone broke off the plastic cover and smashed the mechanism several times with a hammer, thus flattening the central post.
Could this happen? Are there different Kryptonite locks that look exactly the same? Will this lock stay in its place now forever? This is just mindboggling. What would you suggest I should do?
My key doesn't fit into my bicycle lock anymore.
I live in NYC and I have a New York Chain with Kryptonite EV Disc Lock (picture (http://store.proitalia.com/132052.html)). It worked fine last year. When the colder weather came, I stopped riding for a month, and then finally decided to remove the lock and the chain from the bicycle rack outside my school for the winter. Well, the key didn't fit into the hole in the lock. I thought maybe the lock was frozen through, so I decided to wait until the spring to sort things out. That time has come.
The key still doesn't fit into the lock. The key is tubular and the hole is tubular, but the inner cylindrical post in the center of the hole of the lock has somehow grown to a size just a tad larger than the cylindrical hole in the center of the key. The key just doesn't go in into its hole, it's useless to push it through - the key is too small. The problem is not with they key though, since I tried my backup key and it doesn't fit either. I even suspected that maybe this is not my lock, maybe someone stole mine and someone else hanged another lock of another type in the same place, but how could that be? The lock is in the exact same spot I left it in, the chain wrapped around the rack the same way I always wrapped it. The lock itself looks exactly like the one I had, except it's missing the transperent plastic keyhole cover and some of the writing is scratched off. No one has touched it but me for the past couple of months. It was a bit rusted after the winter, so I tried filling it up with WD-40, but that didn't help either. I don't know of any other Kryptonite locks that look exactly like this model except for having larger keys. My only theory is that someone broke off the plastic cover and smashed the mechanism several times with a hammer, thus flattening the central post.
Could this happen? Are there different Kryptonite locks that look exactly the same? Will this lock stay in its place now forever? This is just mindboggling. What would you suggest I should do?