r/Safes

Would love to know as much as possible about the brand, the age, etc. thank you in advance!

Took this off someone's hands today that needed it gone ASAP. Paid 300 for the safe and 325 for moving it, how'd I do?

Hey guys, not this post is not exactly about safes but complimentary to them. For the past few years, I have been working on a reusable tamper-evident jar for storing physical items.

The idea is that the lid creates a random physical “fingerprint” every time you close it. Inside the lid are thousands of tiny black and white balls. When you twist the jar open or closed, they mix. Once the jar is closed, the unique pattern is locked in place.

You can take a photo of that pattern with your phone, and later compare it to check whether the jar has been opened. If someone opens it, the pearls mix again and the original pattern is gone.

I made it because I wanted a simple physical way to store things like hard drives, USB sticks, authentication keys, documents, etc. Basically anything that you would do want to know if someone has accessed it.

After a lot of hard work and prototyping, I'm happy to announce it's finally complete! Check it out on https://www.entropyseal.com/.

Happy to hear feedback. I’m especially interested in whether the concept is clear and what use cases come to mind. :)

Hi all,

I recently moved into a house in Worcestershire (UK) with a small Chubb safe in one of the rooms on the ground floor. It measures approximately 45cm wide x 42cm deep x 53cm high. No idea how much it weighs but a search online suggested likely over 250kg.

Previous owners left us the combination and it works although I think we're missing a change key to alter the combination.

I want to get rid of it but it's too heavy for my partner and I to move. I tried removing the door but can't figure out how. I tried listing on Facebook Marketplace but got nowhere. I've contacted some safe disposal companies but they're quoting £500 - £1000 and I can't justify that.

Can anybody here help with:

Recommending any companies I could contact?

Any specialist marketplaces where I could list it?

Suggesting what tools I could get to help my partner and I get it out of the house ourselves?

Explaining how I get the door off?

Edit: it is on the ground floor but there's a single step at the front door.

Thanks for all the replies!

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So I bought this gun safe/locker through a gun show private sale back in 2016. It appears to be a Sentinel but I'm reading Stack On manufactured it. I lost both keys during a move but confirmed through the back sticker (terrible writing) and through an old email I sent myself that the code for the tubular style lock key ​is "MB18". This would have been printed on the key itself.

Problem is I can't access the serial number as it appears to be inside the safe itself. It looks ​like ​i need the ​sn to order the key. ​This thing is 25 years old at least and I have no clue what to do.

Is a locksmith my only option? Thanks ahead of time.

A friend has recently moved in to a house ( he owns not rents) and under the stairs is a cupboard within which, embedded in the floor, is a safe.

He wants to get it open but isn’t keen on digging out the whole floor!

There is a key hole, there seems to be an outer layer of metal and a second one that I can see via the key hole!

There is a hinge on the top side of the square and there are signs that previous owners have tried to drill to open!

Any suggestions? Locksmith? Angle grinder? Can it be x-rayed?

NB UK based

SpringHill Suites by Marriott Baltimore Downtown/Inner Harbor. In the basement that have this now as a conference room. Glad they preserved it. Then again, trying to remove it ….

Anyone else sticker up their safe?

((I didn't have a safe or enough to need one.))

((Posts a safe in safe group, downvoted and berated for showing use of safe.)) Why are you people even in here? 😆 Get some joy in your life.

I started having this issue where I can use the key to open it up manually but for some reason the keypad no longer is working to unlock it. Change the battery and everything, unplug the keypad from the safe, and it still doesn't seem to solve the issue.

I can type in the password it will say unlocked but it doesn't actually allow me to turn the door to unlock it. But if I manually slide the key in, it turns like butter.

Do I have to get a new safe or is there any alternative for this?

Thanks

This is a safe my grandfather had and it was repainted cause it had been through a big fire.

Sorry for the shit pics. Anyone know model or have any old manual for this?