Broken Filing Cabinet Lock

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Hi there,
I've got a second-hand 4-drawer professional filing cabinet that I bought "unseen." Pretty sure it's this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00...ng+cabinet&dpPl=1&dpID=31QYB19k8sL&ref=plSrch

I have a problem with the third drawer. When the filing cabinet is locked, it opens. When the filing cabinet is unlocked, it locks! It basically does the opposite of whatever the other drawers are doing.

Is this something I can fix, or is it a write-off?
 
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I think there's going to be a lot of guesswork with this one Julia, unless you can somehow access the mechanism and photograph it for us....the drawers will come out but there will be a catch in the way so they don't fall free.
Maybe you could just keep unimportant items in the non locking drawer in the meantime?
John :)
 
When the lock is turned is raises a bar with 4 pins attached, each is opposite a draw, your third draw pin will have been jammed on the wrong side of the locking mechanism.
 
Hi Foxhole - that sounds likely. Is that fixable? I'm not sure how to access the area behind the drawers!
 
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Fixable, lock was probably operated with the draw open this puts the pin the wrong side of the runners [usually forced] may take some force to get it back.The lock bar runs down the front of the right hand side under the lock.
 
lift the drawers out and have a look.

empty them first.
 
Okay, I think I see the problem... It's not subtle! Looks like there might have been something valuable in the third drawer at some point. Does anybody know if you can by spare parts, or should I just give up the dream? xxx
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I do remember something about laying the cabinet on it's back to free up drawers but you would have to google it as I have forgotten.
 

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