Hi, I'm recently elected to a position in a community organization that has met in a building from the 1880s since it was built, my new role came with not only a pile of unlabeled keys but also some lock combinations, one of which I'm hoping will match an old free standing safe. One of the older members of the group left something sentimental in the safe that she'd really like back, and to the best of her knowledge it was last opened around 9-10 years ago. She said one of the combinations I have in a binder goes to that safe, but that there's a trick to opening it. Her memory of the details might be a bit off, but her explanation was that you turn the entire wheel one direction 4 times, then another direction 4 times "and so on", but that wasn't enough info for me to figure it out, and I'm hoping someone here might be able to help me figure out exactly how to enter this combination, assuming it's even correct. There's a reasonably high possibility it's written strangely, for "security". At least one combination that goes to a modern MasterLock on a door was written backwards (for example, instead of say 10-20-30, they wrote it down as 030201).
I appreciate any advice you might have! Google didn't help me much other than pointing me here, so I thought I should try asking you guys before calling someone to try to drill it!
The safe has one big dial that I think goes to 100/0, and a metal lever that is attached to the safe by a post with a ball on top in the center of the lever. It looks like you might rotate that after doing the combination to actually open the safe, it can jiggle a little bit back and forth.
The safe appears to have the original Yale lock, and in the center part of the combination lock it says, "YALE LOCK M'F'G Co.-STAMFORD CONN." around the edge, and in the center it lists patents,
"PAT'D
JULY 25, 1871
SEPT 2 1873
JULY 28, 1874
SEPT 7, 1880
NOV 2, 1880
NOV 2, 1880"
Here's how the combination is written:
(LOCK 26022)
0
4R
4L
60
It's also possible that the part in parenthesis could go to a different lock, that part is typed, while the stuff below it is written in pen, like it was added as an after thought, possibly years later. I appreciate any advice you might have to offer!!
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Or turn 4 times left?