DRILLING AND MICRO DRILLING

Micro drilling, is drilling with a 1/8" drill bit and it causes the least damage when opening the safe. The safe (pictured above) was micro drilled.
When a safe cannot be micro drilled, David will use, at the maximum size, a 1/4" drill bit, to drill open a safe.


 

MANIPULATION
Some safe locks can be manipulated, manipulation is the best way to open a safe.

 

REPAIRS

Manufacturing parts, repairing bolt works and welding.

COMBINATION CHANGES

Opening safes damaged by water. David opened this S&G lock that was submerged under water, the lock was damaged, and it was replaced after the safe was cleaned up. The hole drilled to open the safe was about an 1/8" in diamater.

A Tann Safe:
David just finished a Tann safe that both of the combo's were lost, it had been in storage for a long time. This safe weighs in at 5,000 LBS, with a timer, it is a; top of the line, heavy duty mini vault with many barriers to prevent someone from drilling it open. It has two separate glass re-lockers, several mechanical re-lockers, concrete filled, thick drill resistance steel surrounding all of the sides, top, & bottom. The walls are 6" thick, This took around 6 hours to open without any damage to the locks, or the bolt work and it took only two 1/4" drill holes to open it. This safe is considered the most challenging safe to open, it is not without saying, if you are not a full time master safe technician, with a lot of patiences, tools, you do not want to attempt to open this Tann safe or it may be permanently locked.

At Safetrends we are able to retrofit some safes from a mechanical combination lock to an electronic lock. The difference between electronic locks and mechanical locks is the electronic locks have several program features and opening the safe is much easier than the traditional mechanical combination lock.