MartinHewitt wrote:I think the usage of asbestos in safes started quite a while later. So the dust from drilling could not have been that bad.
Anyway, I think the most important sentence in this video is:
"I don't know why that fence doesn't want to fall, but that might be what my problem was, because I did have the combination for this, but it's not working, evidently."
So just some knocking on the door would have opened this safe.
I don't doubt you are right, I have opened a couple of safes over the years with my deadblow hammer
when the fence was sticking due to non-use, without drilling them