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Damaged vaults and safes

Their are times when safes get damaged for different reasons, here at Safetrends, we are able to open any safe under any lock out condition.
Burglary: 



Above is a AMSEC in the floor safe that was torched with no success, the handle and lock was melted into the safe. Both relockers were fired.

We open damaged safes under these conditions:

  • Burglary attempt
  • Fire
  • Opening attempt by a non safe technician
  • Dropped safes
  • Safes in water
  • Fired re-lockers
  • Broken handles
  • Broken dials
  • Broken hinges
  • Malfunction electronics
  • Broken locking bolts 
  • Torched safes

(just to name a few problems with safes)    

             




This GSA safe, was drilled (using a 5/8" drill) and attempted to be opened by a technician with no formal training in the function of a X-08. He left in frustration leaving the customer with no idea what was going on, the X-08 lock was destroyed, making the opening very difficult.

  This Gary money safe was burglarized; however it was not opened by the criminals. We had to re-weld the safe, in several locations, to make the door of the safe close and lock with ease. The welding done on this safe made the safe stronger than before the burglary attempt.


Attempted openings by a non safe technician:

To the right is a; Mosler GSA vault, that was drilled by a technician, who is not trained to work on GSA vaults. The technician drilled outside the dial ring to the right of the lock. This is in violation of DOD guidelines. This vault cannot be used as a GSA vault, since it was drilled outside the dial ring. This escape mechanism is located inside this Mosler vault. A hole was drilled through it aslo, making it no longer GSA approved. Both protection label and GSA label has been removed from this vault (2006).  
 


This Star, in the floor safe (to the left) was attempted to be opened by a technician who knew nothing about this Star safe. The three holes were very large and were not useful in opening this safe at all, however the technician did waste some time drilling through approximately 5” of steel. David drilled a 3/16” hole and had the safe open in 10 minutes, David then welded the three holes using grade 8 bolts.
  
As you can see from the photo (above), the hole David drilled is barely noticeable, it is inside the dial ring area and looks like a speck of dirt.

 
This is a photo of a vault door, inside bolt work and a Mosler lock, the damage you see here is from another technician with no safe training. A total of seven 5/16" holes were drilled by the technician. They had a simple lock out condition (a dial mounting screw became loose) and made it much worse.

Safes in a fire: 
San Diego Fire storm of 2003. This is a Major round door (right), had all three locking bolts frozen from the fire heating up the door and water entering the safe. This safe (bottom)was not difficult to open, the insulation kept the locking bolts working freely.David Drilled the LaGard mechanical lock and opened the safe. this is a good
example of a fire rated safe.















 


Call us today to resolve your safe or vault problem. 

David Walz, Owner & Master Safe Technician
Safetrends
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California Contractors License #911519
Questions, comments, contact us at: walz@safetrends.com