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One Tough Home Safe....

Forgot how to dial the combination on that old safe? Think you got the right numbers but the handle is stuck? What safe should you buy? Ask your safe questions here!
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One Tough Home Safe....

Postby CMS_SAFECRAKR1 » 18 Sep 2015 19:07

This safe was ripped from a store we installed it in. (We advised to bolt it down as it comes with anchor to do so, but they did not want to pay for that service.) 3 days later it was found dumped in a ditch beside the road where state police found it. The door was never opened in spite hinges being cut off, dial and lock punched, all the concrete gutted down to hard plate, the door heavily pried and the glass relocker fired. This safe is a Gardall FB series with what was a tri-spoke handle. Also found under brands of Sun, Adesco, Cobalt,etc.

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Re: One Tough Home Safe....

Postby billdeserthills » 18 Sep 2015 19:58

Too bad it wasn't in a fire,
I understand most safe companies will replace a burned-up safe.
That is one tough safe and please tell me the contents were actually untouched?

One thing I could never wrap my mind around, why would anyone think knocking the handle off is gonna
just make a safe open? Far as I know, since the very first safe was made (and burglarized) knocking the
handle off has only served to make it harder to open a safe
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Re: One Tough Home Safe....

Postby CMS_SAFECRAKR1 » 19 Sep 2015 8:37

they tries to go through the body in back of safe and managed to fish out a few bills but cut themselves and bleed all over the safe. Store owner figured out of the 3K he had in the safe, 200 was gone.
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Re: One Tough Home Safe....

Postby C locked » 19 Sep 2015 9:35

So they destroyed a at a guess $8k safe to get $200?

Crazy vandals
Cant really call them theives
A snatch and grab at a till would get more

Sometimes these stories show a stroke of true genius
And then there is the idiocy of the desperate masses
Forced into bad decisions that'll ruin them by economic
And personal stresses, Prompted by howto learnt from
the flash and bang of Holly wood and youtube
proving that
a little knowledge can be very dangerous

Sorry bout the rant

Also
As you sold it to them
Any chance of a before shot?
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Re: One Tough Home Safe....

Postby CMS_SAFECRAKR1 » 19 Sep 2015 10:11

Here is the catalog picture of it (smallest size FB1212)

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Retails for around 1500 with a GARDALL sticker on it. Cobalt sold them as private labels for around 1200 retail. Still find them new online for less than 1000 USD
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Re: One Tough Home Safe....

Postby cledry » 19 Sep 2015 11:20

You can open it with a [REDACTED] in minutes.
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Re: One Tough Home Safe....

Postby CMS_SAFECRAKR1 » 19 Sep 2015 13:58

cledry wrote:You can open it with a [REDACTED] in minutes.



yeah i guess those burglars thought they could pry it open like a sentry. they worked awful hard for a pay day on that one... :roll:
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