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Old Safetron Wall Safe

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Old Safetron Wall Safe

Postby dmis » 13 Mar 2021 22:03

We discovered a wall safe in my friends house that he inherited (and has lived in) for 20 years. He claims he never knew it existed, and thinks his mother probably didn't know it existed either. It is an AAnon Safetron, and looks very similar to the one in this post.
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I can post actual pictures tomorrow, but it looks the same except the handle and the push buttons are a slightly different style. That thread + the reddit thread linked makes it seem like its reasonably easy to get into. With Covid (and being frugal) I'd rather not have to call someone to drill it, plus it would be cool to keep it if I can get in non-destructively since the electronic keypad seems to still work after replacing the batteries.

Anyone non-destructive ways in? Should I send my friend to go buy a rubber mallet?
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Re: Old Safetron Wall Safe

Postby Squelchtone » 13 Mar 2021 22:50

The last person I tried to help with one of these could not do the rubber mallet trick and they ended up drilling holes all over the place to get in.

I'll send you a PM with an additional tip.
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Re: Old Safetron Wall Safe

Postby Squelchtone » 14 Mar 2021 13:18

The OP opened their safe, they tried some common 4 digit pin codes folks use and one of them happened to work.
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Re: Old Safetron Wall Safe

Postby oceanservice » 10 May 2021 23:25

I just received a Safetron as "free scrap metal" that seems similar, if not identical, to these. The bottom is has surface rust, I peeked in the mounting holes to verify it empty, and the keypad is in bad shape. The battery holder is missing, with very short power wires (I can probably reach them with piercing leads), but I doubt the keypad will operate.

My goal is to refurbish the safe as a "cool" place to keep my progressive locks, picks/tools, pin kits, challenge vault, etc. but for now getting it open is the first order of business.

We are in a coastal area and there's an extremely high likelihood this has been touched by sea water during a hurricane: I don't know if the solenoid could/would rust and prevent the mallet attack (I haven't tried, and don't know the correct angle). Previous owner doesn't have/remember the code (and I'm not sure any persistent memory on the chip would be intact if I get it powered up).

Short and long question: is it a reasonable project? Aka is it possible to source enough parts to return to service without the assumption of "real" security?

Second question: if I do try to refurbish this, and possibly hack it to operate with an RFID card and/or arduino, where would it be acceptable to post about the process?

I have some picking experience through TOOOL SF, otherwise relatively a n00b around safe mechanisms.
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Re: Old Safetron Wall Safe

Postby oceanservice » 11 May 2021 0:08

First attempt at uploading a photo of the Safetron
https://i.imgur.com/HElvFU9.jpeg

I don't have photos of the battery compartment because this heavy guy is still sitting in my car.
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