Time to buy a safe

Some times they make license plates.

 

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I have a safe upstairs. Probably weighs about 300 lbs. I need a bigger one too. Weight not a problem in this house but getting it up the stairs might be. House is about 230 years old and built like a tank. 8x8 and 10x10 floor joists on fairly close centers. 24” first floor 30” second. Plus full inch floors and subfloor. All framing old growth white pine. Floors hard pine and hemlock subfloor. Nothing is going anywhere

 

Man, I'd love a house like that...

...somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line. (See, I've been reading your posts in the How's The Weather thread!)

 

There’s a lot of “somewhere” south of the Mason-Dixon line with terrible weather. The entire state of Florida comes to mind (unbearable humidity, hurricanes, etc.)

 

I didn't realize there were threads about the weather. As a retired research and development meteorologist I am intrigued. I'll have to visit some of those threads.

 

They’re around. I spent a winter living in one made of oak logs ca 1750 the new part was post and beam built in 1783 it was in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia. There’s tons of early houses there. There’s quite a few in North Carolina Tennessee and Kentucky if you look too. I have a lot of friends in all 4 states from traveling and my business. And was with a girl from Virginia that year. We closed up my house for the winter and worked on and lived in the house next door to my friends that they owned too. The mistake was being with her. It just didn’t work

 

Head over to general discussion

 

I did say "somewhere south", not "anywhere south".

 

That's for sure. I spent my childhood in Williamsport and Hagerstown, Maryland. My brother and his family lived in a rambling house north of town, with the oldest part built in the 1700s, the next section in the (early?) 1800s, then more in the 1930s and 1950s. (At one point it was owned by an executive at Fairchild, who had a helipad built in the back! Talk about anachronism.)

 

Found this on a hunting web sight, It is about CANNON safes.

.Well if it has a key pad with a 9V battery in it. My buddy found you can pull that key pad off pretty easily, some may take a flat blade screw driver to remove. But once you have the pad off, there should be two wires going down inside the safe. If you take the 9V battery, attach two wires to the top of it, then poke one wire into each of the two wire terminals that are on the end of the wiring harness that goes into the safe. As soon as you put 9V to those two wires, it should pop the lock.
From what a buddy of mine who works in security found out, those safes are way too easy to get into. He warned me before I bought one. If the lock does not pop, when you connect the 9V battery directly to those two wires, either the battery is dead, or the electric solenoid or solenoids that retract the bolts, are bad.



This scares me because I have one of these safes. If true I guess you get what you pay for. Got it at Academy for between $500.00-$600.00

 

So don't get any safe that has a 9volt electrical attachment for digital or manual access ? I presume that's what the battery is for.

 

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