I got this wall unit @ a Yard sale. Only problem , no combination (guess thats why it was 2 bucks) anybody in the past, live the life of crime?
Would like to get it to work without spending anymore then what I got into it.
I got this wall unit @ a Yard sale. Only problem , no combination (guess thats why it was 2 bucks) anybody in the past, live the life of crime?
Would like to get it to work without spending anymore then what I got into it.
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Why? You've already got it open and spent all the loot!
LOL
is there a manufacturer's name on it with model # anywhere. They might have something online or an 8oo # to tell how to select or change aor set a combination number for it.
BTW, I wouldn't trust it to hold anything especially valuable from theft unless it is well hidden from sight.
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Go find yourself a book called "surely you're joking mr. feynman".It is a bunch of autobiographical stories about the life of Richard Feynman (the physicist). The stories are very humorous and good reading.He was always one-upping people and showing them that he could do "impossible" things.One of the impossible things he learned how to do was to crack safes and pick locks. I used the information in that book to learn how to pick locks. Never tried a safe. You might have some luck with it.If my house wasn't a 100 years old... there would go a really fine hobby.
I was going to suggest Feynman's book! Good, funny book. The thing to remember is that each number of a combination is good plus or minus about 2, so that lowers the number of possible combinations (ie. you try 0, 5,10, etc., instead of 1,2,3,...). You might try the factory setting--something like 0-25-0 (?). Feynman talks about a safe that an admiral ordered to keep secrets in and left it behind when he moved his headquarters. Finally someone opened it using the factory setting!
That was a great book. Read it many years ago.
Its got a Master lock on it . Just like the ones we used to have on the High School Lockers.
Has the #s 20C18 & the # 21 inside a circle.
Looky here what I foundhttp://www.masterlock.com/general/faqs_lostcom.shtml
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You Da Man! 37 cents, thats within my budget! The accountant @ work is a Notary Public, & I am sure for the price of a soft drink I can get the stamp, & I am still under the buck-fifity mark.
Thanks for the Link!
Drill a 1/4" dia hole in the back of the casing at about 10 oclock and 1/4" from the rim, you should be able to see the discs and the pawl that slides into slots in the disks. Line them up and you have the combo.
You've got a cheap one. The better ones you can take the back off insert a change key and reset the combo. It's good that master lock can send you a combo though, that's handy.
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If there the same as some that I had in past years...
It looks like one of types that really only use two mumbers and the third number acts as the mechanical tensioner that opens the safe. In other words try multiples of the first two numbers and when you get to the last number, you will know it because the know will get hard to turn. keep turning it until it won't turn any more and it should be able to pull open as you keep tension on the knob.
Also, try listening for clicks on the tumblers for the first two munber, just as in the movies. That's how I pick a few of the ones I had when I bought a set of old lockers from the late seventies
I can't quite see if you can get the back off that one or not. But I think that's the key.
When I was a kid, Dad bought a safe. My Brother and I took the back off the lock and played around with it until we figured out how to change the combination.
It's pretty cool how they work, if you can get the cover off the mechanism.
Here is what the lock looks like. I remember when I was young the luck I used to have working on my Timex watch when it stopped ticking.
As you know this is a master lock. Since this is a key controlled lock there are actually five combinations for this lock. They are changed by inserting the key and while pushing the button on the back and with the proper movement of the dial you can change the combination to the next one in the sequence. That does not help you if you don't have the five combinations. Using the code numbers on the back of the lock, Master lock company can provide you with a new key and the combinations. That is if you satisfy there security requirements. It maybe possible to buy a replacement lock with key and combinations for reasonable amount . These locks are usually used in institutional facilities where a large number of locks are needed such as school locker rooms so that you can change the combination every year for the next group. The key control gives administration the ability to open the locks without needing the combination for that specific lock. This safe may have come from a facility where there was a similar need. If you really want to use the safe I would contact Master and see if they will get you the combination and the key or possibly just one lock and key. I will check at work and see if we have any of these laying around not being used. My key ring for work has four different keys for all the different master locks we use. What a pain.
Another thing, that inner disk that has the knotches in it are for different combination settings. Just move it to the next knotch and the combination will change by 5 numbers. (50 numbers divided by 10 knotches)
All I wanna know is... Are ya gonna share all the loot with us once you do get it open?
Read "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman".
Have you read the rest of the thread?
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Great minds think alike.FWIW, it's not just out of academic interest that one should read that book. Feynman describes therein the technique he used to "read" the combination off an open safe. If a similar technology is used here then his technique (which was hard to picture without having a safe at hand to practice with) would be just the ticket.
With all the talk about drilling into the thing another idea occured to me... :)Drill into it (a good sized hole) and stuff the locking mechanism full of high explosive... oh! you wanted to use it afterwards?If my house wasn't a 100 years old... there would go a really fine hobby.