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RoyWattersLocksmith90 karma

A bank vault or anything over 30 ton with 2 foot thick doors.

RoyWattersLocksmith62 karma

Hello,

  • on "the safe"...for the lock, i would rotate the dial and see if i could do it by touch and take some readings. The other thing is...turn the dial to '0' and see if it pushes in at zero. If that doesn't work, I would then drill it. I would look up the safe in my database to see what the safe looks like on the inside (agreeing with the main thread, its a sgt. greenleaf lock). Then I would look to see what the version of the S&G after I ran diagnostics on it.

  • To answer your second question, I'm a machinist and worked for 3 universities and built prototypes my whole life.

  • To answer your third questions, I always see if the dial turns freely and if i can get a reading off the dial. It's a lot of diagnostics first. I just dont pull out the drill.

RoyWattersLocksmith61 karma

Yes. the ISM diamond vault. Isrealian Safe Manufacturer. I've actually cracked quite a few of them. Safes are like foreign cars. There are a lot of foreign cars in the US as well as foreign safes. For example:

  • Fichet from France
  • John Tann from England
  • SLS from England
  • Original from Yugoslavia
  • Steelage from India

and the list goes on!

RoyWattersLocksmith54 karma

No comment... :)

RoyWattersLocksmith54 karma

You're welcome!

  • A lot of the movies today are pretty real. Look at the italian job. All that stuff was rented from LA Safe Co. They're real and use real techniques.

  • I went into a house one time and a guy had a bat cave. He touched a button on a wall, the wall opened up, and we went three stories down into his bat cave.

  • I have never had to unlock someone from a safe, but I know two guys who helped unlock bank vaults that two children were stuck in!