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<p>[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 334114, member: 4552"]I don't have one and never will. Now here is just a few things to remember.</p><p>Someone will deliver that safe and the drivers, shipping department, your neighbors all now know you need a safe for something very, very valuable. Stories grow and grow and grow. </p><p>If you report this to an insurance agency, all such info goes into thier computers and many, many now have access to that information. Of course all insurance agency people are completely honest. </p><p>You know have something in your house that if not concealed would attract the attention of any visitor that stumbled on it and they would tell thier friends that would tell thier friends that would..............</p><p>If you have a safe in a basement where the humidity is high and every time you close the door you lock in that humidity. If you start using reusable gel packs, more money. </p><p>If not extreamely heavy, bolted down or to a wall, it is not impossilble for it to be removed and not by the nicest people. </p><p>Then naturally there is the fire thing. If a fire breaks out and gets to the safe, naturally many things in there will not be distroyed completely. However, the metal gets hot, the inside gets hot, maybe not flaming hot, but hot. If your coins are in Plastic Slabs, that will melt all over the coins. If your coins are in albums with plastic slides, that too will melt all over your coins. If they are in 2x2's the plastic there will also melt all over the coins. Cardboard holders will smolder and the smoke will also effect the coins. All this since the hot air has no place to go. There is a chance the safe door will not open due to excessive heat creating metal enlarging the door in the jam so you could not even get the coins out. </p><p>I'm sure they do give some a feeling of security though. I have two neighbors that would strongly dissagree after their robberies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 334114, member: 4552"]I don't have one and never will. Now here is just a few things to remember. Someone will deliver that safe and the drivers, shipping department, your neighbors all now know you need a safe for something very, very valuable. Stories grow and grow and grow. If you report this to an insurance agency, all such info goes into thier computers and many, many now have access to that information. Of course all insurance agency people are completely honest. You know have something in your house that if not concealed would attract the attention of any visitor that stumbled on it and they would tell thier friends that would tell thier friends that would.............. If you have a safe in a basement where the humidity is high and every time you close the door you lock in that humidity. If you start using reusable gel packs, more money. If not extreamely heavy, bolted down or to a wall, it is not impossilble for it to be removed and not by the nicest people. Then naturally there is the fire thing. If a fire breaks out and gets to the safe, naturally many things in there will not be distroyed completely. However, the metal gets hot, the inside gets hot, maybe not flaming hot, but hot. If your coins are in Plastic Slabs, that will melt all over the coins. If your coins are in albums with plastic slides, that too will melt all over your coins. If they are in 2x2's the plastic there will also melt all over the coins. Cardboard holders will smolder and the smoke will also effect the coins. All this since the hot air has no place to go. There is a chance the safe door will not open due to excessive heat creating metal enlarging the door in the jam so you could not even get the coins out. I'm sure they do give some a feeling of security though. I have two neighbors that would strongly dissagree after their robberies.[/QUOTE]
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