AMFgaming wrote:Oh. Thank you. This is just what i want to learn. Starting in this hobby due to the link to family history. It seems i find a photo of exactly my safe but the lock is different. All very interesting.
I saw a post about the yale 0700 that mentioned it had a relocker. Havent pulled the cover off this but i cannot imagine this has a relocker. This is not much more than a lockbox.
Is it safe to take the cover off this lock ? I would like to learn how to work on the two safes i now have.
There's no internal relocker on that model lock, so feel free to open the back cover up. When the 0700 was installed on other safes such as the Protectall, there would be metal plate mounted to the back of the 0700 and removing that plate or back cover of the lock would trigger a spring loaded plunger style external relocker. The idea was that if someone punched the guts of the lock out by smashing the dial in with a chisel or something, that the back cover would fly off and the relocker would fire making it so the handle would not be thrown to open the door bolts.
Think of safes and safe locks like a car and a car stereo.. Most cars come with whatever the factory threw in, but you can always put in something like a Kenwood, Sony, or Pioneer, that's what the locks were to the safes, they were the name brand radio. Some safe dials you can even tell by their shape and number font that they were made by Sargent & Greenleaf, Mosler, Yale or others but they have a logo or branding on the dial that matches the company that made the safe container. There were of course safe manufacturers who also made their own very good locks, Diebold comes to mind and Mosler as well as Victor just as a few examples.
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