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Brent Hill  
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 More options May 30 2012, 10:51 pm
From: Brent Hill <brent.b.h...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 22:51:23 -0400
Local: Wed, May 30 2012 10:51 pm
Subject: safe cracking

Does anyone have experience or knowledge of opening old safes without the
combination? My grandfather has a safe and the combination has been lost.
We don't know what is in it. I've been watching a few videos I found on
youtube. Some say forget about using a stethoscope and others say it works
if you know how.  My family got an 'estimate' from a 'locksmith' for $50
plus $45/hour to drill/cut it open. Of course that would destroy the safe
itself which is worth a few hundred at least.

The safe is a Meilink Model 2.

I found this lecture about safe cracking that was interesting.

http://youtu.be/odu1d8OAW9Y


 
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Craig  
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 More options May 31 2012, 12:25 am
From: Craig <agent.cr...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 00:25:20 -0400
Local: Thurs, May 31 2012 12:25 am
Subject: Re: [CHP] safe cracking

How big is the safe?  Is it something you could leave at the space for a
bit for us to take a non-destructive crack at?

I used to hang out with a locksmith years ago and I remember one day
walking into the shop and he had a huge nice metal safe (taller than me)
 He had a small robotic arm attached to the dial and lever.  It was
literally just churning through every combination while he did other
things.... I've always wanted to build one of those ... :)


 
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Stone Gnarus  
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 More options May 31 2012, 12:31 am
From: Stone Gnarus <gnarus8...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 00:31:41 -0400
Local: Thurs, May 31 2012 12:31 am
Subject: Re: [CHP] safe cracking

Could we get a pic of it?  It appears that the newer modles are a bit
easier to work with.


 
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Brent Hill  
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 More options May 31 2012, 10:12 pm
From: Brent Hill <brent.b.h...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 22:12:57 -0400
Local: Thurs, May 31 2012 10:12 pm
Subject: Re: [CHP] safe cracking

I asked them to send me a photo.

The information they sent is Ser. # B-76 45882 Model # 2.  Size: 16.5" X
16.5" X 24".

Since we don't know what's in it I don't think they would let me leave it
at the space. Maybe I could bring it by for a few hours some evening or
some folks could come to my house.  This makes me want to buy an old safe
now.

I would have assumed that the older safes would be easier to open than a
new one. I guess it depends on the quality of the safe also.


 
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Jefferson Casavant  
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 More options May 31 2012, 10:56 pm
From: Jefferson Casavant <jeff.casav...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 22:56:48 -0400
Local: Thurs, May 31 2012 10:56 pm
Subject: Re: [CHP] safe cracking

Any thoughts on the palm sander method?  I understand it doesn't work for
all safes, and you'd have to build a rig for it...  Has it been tried?  Do
we have intelligence saying that wouldn't work?


 
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Craig  
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 More options May 31 2012, 11:01 pm
From: Craig <agent.cr...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 23:01:43 -0400
Local: Thurs, May 31 2012 11:01 pm
Subject: Re: [CHP] safe cracking

I've always wanted to see that work but never tried.

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Jefferson Casavant  
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 More options May 31 2012, 11:08 pm
From: Jefferson Casavant <jeff.casav...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 23:08:16 -0400
Local: Thurs, May 31 2012 11:08 pm
Subject: Re: [CHP] safe cracking

My thought is that the safe might be old enough that it would work.  Never
done it either.


 
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Brent Hill  
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 More options Jul 14 2012, 4:11 pm
From: Brent Hill <brent.b.h...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:11:54 -0400
Local: Sat, Jul 14 2012 4:11 pm
Subject: Re: [CHP] safe cracking

How does the the palm sander method work? I assume you put the palm sander
against the dial and it jiggles the wheels until the slots are at the top.
Then turn the dial ccw to the contact region and see if it engages?

I finally got the safe last weekend and I've spent hours the last few
evenings and today working through mapping the wheels as described in
'safecracking for software engineers'. I have managed to identify high
points on all three wheels but no good low points. I've gone back and
remapped individual wheels with the lowest points found on the other two.

The problem I'm having is that when I go back to fine tune the numbers near
the low point and redo the low point the readings aren't the same and it
doesn't look like a low point anymore.

The safe is pretty rough looking with rust all over so I was starting to
think that some of the wheels are dragging other wheels around and
causing inconsistent readings. I found another article at 'how stuff works'
that tells how to count the wheels. Although I already know this one has 3
wheels I thought if I can feel the three wheels click at the expected place
during the procedure then it would seem that they aren't dragging. The
contact region on the safe is at 98-08. So I parked the wheels at 48 then
turned the dial back to start picking up wheels in the opposite direction.
They should all click when passing 48 where they were parked. In one
direction the wheels click hard all three times. In the other direction it
sort of clicks but more subtle with a lurch.

The safe is old and rusty so isn't worth all that much so I'm not going to
hire a locksmith. I'm getting close to getting out the angle grinder and
cutting out the bottom. Once I find out it is empty, (I'm almost sure it
is) then I could leave it at Hive13 for everyone to to have a chance at
manipulation.  I've learned a lot about safes from this experience.

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