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safecracking?

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Postby SFGOON » 1 Nov 2004 15:56

Thermite? You've GOT to be kidding me. Maybe an aluminium safe if you need to resort to such measures to break into a toy. Thermite has it's uses, but safecracking?! No chance. It will not work, period. I have witnessed thermite NOT melt through a 3/8" hardened safe, it just cooled into a pile of slag on top of it. Think about the specific heat of steel, titanium, etc, then explain this feat to me. Demolitions are a precise science not subject to guesswork. And yet it seems the barely literate are claiming that shrapnel (high velocity metal fragment for Anti-personell purposes) open safes. If that were true one could open a safe with a rifle (BTW that won't work either.) Explosives are well suited for many things but not safecracking. Other techniques such as charting work way better and considering the mathematical rudeness of charge calculation are more efficent. That crapola put out in books like "The poor man's James Bond" will get your fingers blown off if you're lucky. Stick to the picks and leave dems to the sappers. :roll:
"Reverse the obvious and the truth will present itself." - Carl Jung
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Postby oldlock » 1 Nov 2004 16:17

Ultimatederrenfan wrote:anyone here skilled in the art of safecracking???
Dan


Yes :lol:

But I for one am not going to discuss techniques for dealing with safes in an open forum - no one else should either.

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Postby Romstar » 1 Nov 2004 16:23

oldlock wrote:
Ultimatederrenfan wrote:anyone here skilled in the art of safecracking???
Dan


Yes :lol:

But I for one am not going to discuss techniques for dealing with safes in an open forum - no one else should either.

Paul


Kudos to you Paul,

You are quite correct. Safe "cracking" is cerrtainly not our mandate, and further has the potential to be far more dangerous than it would seem.

Additionally, most of the groundwork really has been done, and is readily available IF you have access to your own safe to practice on. Once you know the basics, manipulation can be an easy skill to learn. Just notoriously difficult to master.

Any other techniques are simply outside of our perview in the open forums. Even in the advanced forums, we try to take care with that information.

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