OT Strongbox cracking

you might be surprised! I bought one at 15 quid from b and q as a gadget type present for my young son, it seemed to me to be really well built and very heavy, it was much better than you might guess.

stick some new batteries in , its possible the unit will remember access code after a few minutes

Or try 111111 , 123456 , 000000

Um..., if it were that easy to reset the codes to some sort of factory defaults it wouldn't be a very secure safe would it?

I'm guessing the batteries are on the *inside*. That's why they provide keys as back-up.

Tim

So the effective cost of the locksmith doing it is only £20 then.

Chris

May as well have the fun of smashin it to peices, and buy a brand new one with keys AND save £20..

The batteries ARE in the inside ;-)

For some value of fun, obviously... :-)

Chris

Valuable batteries, don't want them going missing :)

In message , Paul writes

If there's £70 in it, offer her £35 for the whole thing and then have fun smashing it open. :-)

There's something mildly amusing about a safe which can be carried next door by an old lady, wasn't it supposed to be bolted to a wall from the inside?

Its probably one of those small cash box small document box

Well, just did and it was a breeze. Got grandma to spend half hour filling it with sand then went round with angle grinder and cut a 6x4 hole in the back in about 5 mins. Would have been two, but the disc decided to spin despite the nut being fully on tight.

lovely way of dodging real work in the sunshine.

Now cop this - when I got it open there was £10,000 in cash in it - and she gave me £20.. so much for 'pape But i can't figure if it really was her savings or she is some sort of drug dealer for viagra ;-)

lol, worth more than the safe now it has a gaping hole in the bottom. Actually, i should ask them if i can have it, I'm sure theres some old episode of Banacek I can re-enact.

Yes, could probably store about 6 bags of sugar inside it. Supposed to be bolted down - not much point if it can be carried away and opened in 5 mins.

There's a video on youtube which is quite funny, some nob ranting on about how his safe had a really crap lock which could be opened with a screwdriver so he was going to take it back... it was a FIREsafe --doh.

yes people dont know the difference

But she can't afford the locksmith?

NO! have you never seen how that stuff burns?

You don't save up £10k by paying a locksmith when you don't need to...

Why can't she take it to them, rather than incurring a callout charge?

Well apart from she's only got an invalid buggy, taking a safe with what turned out to be £10k in it, out and about is not a good idea.