Those lock mechanisms have a lot of slop, so instead of needing to try all 100 positions in the dial, you only have to try 25, as the gate for the lock will engage any number within 4 divisions. Makes the combination pool fall from 1000000 tries to 15625, though those locks are also amenable to simply using a stethoscope and listen to the sound change as the pawl falls into the gate. Otherwise yes the brute force method also works, though the preferred method is to drill through the lock with a core bit ( cheap at Builders these days, and I saw some nice diamond core steel bits at Adendorf machinery as well) and make the lock disappear into the safe, using the nice convenient guide the dial shaft provides. Not worth much as scrap though, as all the concrete ( BTW that front is asbestos cement, so careful to not breathe the dust, safe likely dates from the 1970's when the fire proof was done with asbestos cement wall cladding board) means half the mass is worthless, and only the front and around 10cm into the side is thick steel, the rest is 1.6mm galvanised sheet. Going to need a strong bottle trolley to get it out, along with 3 tyre irons to get the edge up to slip the trolley under it. Door should just lift off the bearing hinges once open.
Those lock mechanisms have a lot of slop, so instead of needing to try all 100 positions in the dial, you only have to try 25, as the gate for the lock will engage any number within 4 divisions. Makes the combination pool fall from 1000000 tries to 15625, though those locks are also amenable to simply using a stethoscope and listen to the sound change as the pawl falls into the gate. Otherwise yes the brute force method also works, though the preferred method is to drill through the lock with a core bit ( cheap at Builders these days, and I saw some nice diamond core steel bits at Adendorf machinery as well) and make the lock disappear into the safe, using the nice convenient guide the dial shaft provides.
Not worth much as scrap though, as all the concrete ( BTW that front is asbestos cement, so careful to not breathe the dust, safe likely dates from the 1970's when the fire proof was done with asbestos cement wall cladding board) means half the mass is worthless, and only the front and around 10cm into the side is thick steel, the rest is 1.6mm galvanised sheet. Going to need a strong bottle trolley to get it out, along with 3 tyre irons to get the edge up to slip the trolley under it. Door should just lift off the bearing hinges once open.
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