r/safecracking

We’ve been decluttering my grandmas house and found these 2 safes she had forgotten about. We got ahold of sentry and the combinations they provided didn’t work so we are assuming they were changed at some point but she doesn’t remember what they were. I’m completely new to getting into safes but I’ve done a lot of reading and tried manipulating it but I still must be doing something wrong. The closest locksmith is over an hour away and wanted a small fortune to get them open, does anyone have any tricks or ideas to help pop these open for her? We would really like to try and get them open in a non destructive way but if I comes down to drilling and beating it open she said that’s fine too.

I’m doubting anything is in it but would like to know what the opening combination typically looked like - such as direction and number of turns to start and then usually how many numbers were in the combination. I’d appreciate any help. I’d like to preserve it and keep it in the building it came from.

So far I've spent about 16 hours attempting to crack this safe. I picked the lock assuming it was locked (big mistake) and I don't know if it is locked and if that would effect the manipulation of the dial. Can anyone offer some wisdom there?

That lock is a medeco lock which I had no business actually picking, but by luck or misfortune I did somehow, so it would take quite some effort to get it back.

Any other tips would be appreciated. I've started over several times trying different pressures when measuring the contact zone. Sometimes I feel that the stickiness of the dial messes my measurement off if I go too light.

Is this video similar in that it has the same dial? Should I try that laser method like SafeCrackerBot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcF90oFyJeU&list=LL&index=9&t=1952s

When I was looking in a closet I noticed a loose tile and decided to lift it and came across a hatch which then les me to this safe. It looks to be atleast 50 years old and I have absolutely no idea whats in it. I did shove a tiny camera to see inside and saw a metal wire of some sort but could not see much of anything if you all see somthing in the vid let me know!

Need help

So, I have this blue metalic box that is said to come from the national marines (french) and it's heavy as hell (it's full).

The box have a 3 numbers padlock, and :

- it's harder on the last number toward the 8 and 9.

- I tried to use a video to help (they say that the right combinaison is the 3 numbers that are "weaker" when you turn them) and it came to 321 but didn't open.

- we tried any combinaisons that are familiar.

- I tried to do it numbers by numbers until 6-0-0 because i'm starting to hurt (it's rusty inside, I can feel it, the lock is too hard to turn sometimes it hurt).

- I can't put a wire or even a little hard paper on the side of the numbers to feel the hole, I think it's to be sure no one will try to crack the lock.

- there's a small square thing on the side of the numbers, does I need to try to lift it everytimes I enter a potential code for it to maybe open ??

- I'm starting to think the padlock is just too rusty and doesn't work anymore

And the box is probably from my father when he was in the marines so fear not, I didn't stole it or anything like that.

So, if anyone have any help I'll be happy to read it and if not then I'm starting again with the "number by number" technic tonight then.

So I finally found the keys for the safe. The top key can be turned once and then unlocks the mechanism underneath for the flat key. With the flat key, I can click some kind of mechanism, but unfortunately I don’t understand what I need to do at the bottom so that I can keep turning the top key and open the safe. The lower part of the safe has a different mechanism and is already open.

I was able to open it before but it doesn’t work anymore.

The directions are
Turn counter clockwise 4 times to …
Turn clockwise 3 times to …
Turn counter clockwise 2 times to …
Turn clockwise to … and press inward
Turn the counter clockwise to …

When I get to the press inward part it doesn’t turn anyway.
I tried this few years ago and it opened, but now it doesn’t work please help.