A locksmith can use your good key to find the right wafers for each
wafer position of a tumbler without needing one of your matching good
tumblers. I have taken the wafers out of some sliding door tumblers and
then mixed and matched wafers to make one tumbler work with my key. Not
fast or flawless since I did not have all the exact right wafers from my
2 donors. For a locksmith it should be a snap.

Mark

Jim Felder wrote:
> Guess I wasn't too clear, or else I was and I don't get what you're saying...
>
> I have two unmatched/unkown tumblers (I guess you call them) that came
> out of the donor handles. They are from a late model vanagon and are
> in nice shape, left over from the swap (I put my "old" tumblers in
> both new handles).
>
> I also have a sliding door whose tumbler doesn't work with my key, so
> I have to reach through the front door and slide the inside button and
> then close and lock the front door.
>
> Since I have these two spare tumblers, I am wondering is one of them
> can be outfitted with the proper wafers that would match my
> properly-keyed doors? And to do so, would I need to pull one of my
> properly-keyed tumblers out to show the locksmith, or could the
> locksmith figure out what wafers I need by looking at my key?
>
> Jim
>