Originally Posted by
livingfortoday
...Has anyone else been having problems like this with the New York locks?
I have the exact same lock, and experienced the exact same thing.
All the above posters recommending lubrication are correct.
At first I thought I should only use graphite, because I didn't want anything to gum up the mechanism. Considering how much it rains here, that would only last for about a week. I then used tri-flow. Now I only have to lube it maybe twice a year.