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Re: The Safe in My Basement

Chicagosafes — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:06:58 -0000

OK Im a Certified Master Locksmith, over 30 years of experience opening and servicing safes. All I can say by reading this is that you guys wouldn't make it 2 weeks as a locksmith. You have to have a certain thought process to be good at this. First thing I'm thinking is you probably have at least a couple hundred hours into this. AND, seeing that this safe is worth less than $1000, and could be replaced for less...you have valued your time at less than 10 cents per hour.
Here are your practical options.
1) if you really like THIS safe, and it isn't bolted down, use a dolly to bring it to a local locksmith shop that does this everyday, DO NOT USE A SERVICE WITHOUT A Physical location, also make sure they are licensed. Cost should be about $100-$200 to open, with additional costs for repairs. It is not true, that the safe will be less secure, or lose its fire protection. In fact, when I repair a safe I have drilled it is MORE secure when Im done.
#2 this safe has very limited burglary protection, it was designed to protect documents from fire. Take a 2 1/2 inch hole saw, turn the safe over and drill a large hole in the center of the bottom. reach your hand in, and with a small ( i think its 3/16") nut driver take the back cover off, now you will see a relocker, im assuming if you have read all you say you know what that is. disable the relocker by putting something between the bolt and the strike. you will see the bolt from the lock goes into a slot in the handle preventing the handle from turning. Bend the plate away from the bolt so the handle will turn...and your safe should open. It still can be repaired...but probably should be scrapped and replaced.

Re: The Safe in My Basement

Dovid — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:23:15 -0000

hey we cracked ours. the combo was 10-20-30 but the sequence is not the usual.And its the same safe in picture.after you take it to 30 you have to go back to zero.my husband did it I believe it is three times past 10, twice past twenty then take it to thirty and go back to zero

Re: The Safe in My Basement

Interceptor6 — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:49:24 -0000

Similar bind here, but a smaller Meilink safe (no handle). Stethascope gives me (1) possible number. I also took this as a challenge, but ultimately it looks like it'll make a great boat anchor!

Re: The Safe in My Basement

BCR — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:21:31 -0000

I had an old Meilink safe given to me with the door not locked but no combination. The dial looks the same but the handle is a little different than yours. The positions of the dial and handle look the same so I assume the mechanism inside might be the same also. I was able to get to the mechanism inside and figure out how it worked. This is what I discovered: Turn CC to X, turn CW pass X twice to Y, turn CC pass Y once to Z, then turn CW till stops. Turn handle and pull!

Re: The Safe in My Basement

Dovid — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:31:50 -0000

You have my attention, I too have the identical safe in the photo, been handed down to me and have no combonation for it. it has a serial number stamped in the dial but that has lead me nowhere as the safe seems to be from the sixties.I have a question , did your still have the factory set combo? please email me at dandhtank@yahoo.com if you do. thanks

Re: The Safe in My Basement

don Roberto — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:54:05 -0000

So, it's been a year and a half. Did you get it open?

Re: The Safe in My Basement

Steelpaper82 — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:26:11 -0000

dude you so much time into that shit, ive been trying to crack mine with a frikin stethascope but i only got the first number

Re: Advertising Failure

Diana Adams — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:31:40 -0000

Thank you for the mention! I'm so touched. ;))

Re: Advertising Failure

Brandon Pierce — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:29:03 -0000

I love the salt lick though!

I haven't worn a watch since in 14 years. I just couldn't stomach being a slave to Time. Of course, I don't leave the house without my iPhone - so that freedom didn't last long. ;-)

Re: The Reputation Economy is Here.

JohnAkerson — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:06:53 -0000

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I agree with you that the positive impact of social media and online reputation varies greatly from a wide perspective across industries. The negative impact, however, seems to cut across industries, groups, companies, and people. A 5 year old FB post - or MySpace post could very well end a political bid, a career, or perhaps a company. To give an extreme example, imagine someone unearthed an email from January of 2004 where Mark Zuckerberg told a friend that he had just gotten an idea and a bunch of source code from two big rowers, and he was going to make it his own site, and his own business and was going to cut them out. (this is a purely fictional thought... but how damaging was the leaked hard drive from that time period? http://www.businessinsider.com... )

What if someone found a 2005 MySpace post from Rielle Hunter saying that she was going to go after a presidential candidate...

Or an internal corporate blog post from a drug company about how their drug had some side effects but they were going to sell it anyway...

What if social media was around in 1964, and Tobacco executives posted on them... or in the '70's, and the designers and executives who picked the Pinto's gas tank location wrote on them...

I could go on and on... The negative effects of social media reputation could be devastating - personally, professionally, financially, and from a corporate and/or industry perspective. Reputation is fragile, and easily ruined. I think we are already at that point.

Re: The Reputation Economy is Here.

davinabrewer — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:31:12 -0000

I also read one of his posts about how online profile will replace the resume someday. Agree the "online reputation" is already here for many of us, particularly those in marketing communications but it will vary and depend per industry. For example, I am not sure an RN needs an extensive LI profile (unless applying for management position) and a blog, though like anyone would want to be careful about personal networks like FB, what's shared there. I think a fantastic CPA with first rate credentials, references might be fine without it, depending on the position. HR managers and SMBs are smart to look at the whole package when hiring candidates, but as always judgment of a 5-year old FB post should be measured and considered in proper context. FWIW.

Re: The Safe in My Basement

Teamjohnk — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:15:42 -0000

I own what looks to be an identical safe. It was originally a narcotics safe in a drugstore & I paid about $200 for it 25 years ago. The pattern to open it is R several turns to clear it, stopping at XX, L to pass second number YY and stop at third incidence of YY, R to pass third number ZZ and stop at second incidence of ZZ and then L to 0 (zero) & turn the handle. The second number is 40 more than the first and the third number is 20 less than the second. That should narrow your possible combinations down quite a bit.

Re: Search Wars

Vivek Wadhwa — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:53:36 -0000

John, you make some great comments!

Re: Competitiveness and Personal Data

Bankruptcy discharge papers — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:43:21 -0000

Copy of your bankruptcy discharge documents in the privacy of your home for $9.99 only, rather spending your valuable time on searching online. (Serving all 50 States).

Re: Nissan & Facebook

Timothy Tiah — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:34:13 -0000

I guess maybe one reason why brands might find it worthwhile linking to their Facebook page rather than their own .com is because they probably find it easier to garner traffic or a following on their Facebook page than on their own .com. There is after all some level of virality that it can achieve out of its branded Facebook page. Friends of users get notified when a person likes or posts anything on the FB page.

I guess the only downside is that you're putting all your media dollars on the fate of one social networking site. I remember many years ago, some brands were spending a lot of money developing and marketing its Friendster fan pages. Then Friendster died and so did all their brand pages along with it. I guess the bright side though is that Facebook looks like it's here to stay at least for a while.

Re: Rinse and Repeat

JohnAkerson — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:57:40 -0000

Thank you for the comments Rachel!

Re: Rinse and Repeat

Rachel Christmann — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:19:00 -0000

I have heard this analogy before about SEO and Social Media. I never understood the collaborative power of this combination- mostly because I was absorbed in social media efforts and didn't take the time to sit down and learn more about SEO. But my days have slowed and now I have time to read more about SEO; and I am gradually starting to grasp what all the hype around organic growth is-- including SEO. I've got my shampoo but have been missing my conditioner. :)

- Rachel
www.christmanncommunications.com