I found a locked safe hidden at the back of a closet in my new house

Well if you put it OUTSIDE it would get burned up in the fire. Are you daft?

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Thatā€™s 2-factor authentication right there!

  • Something you have: A safe.
  • Something you know: The location of the combination for the safe.
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this, please.

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Sounds like my kind of people.

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We did have a good look!

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I donā€™t even want to imagine what shipping would cost lol

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Thinking about it. If you made a faux-safe itā€™d be kind of a neat idea. Could be something like a mini-fridge that looks like a safe on the exterior and maybe have a real locking mechanism on it. Or have the same thing but itā€™s just a cabinet that looks like a safe, this would be pretty doable for DIY. Hmmm.

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Iā€™m liking the liquor cabinet idea. If the kids want to steal my booze, make them work for it.

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Can you get a safe that incrementes the combination each so itā€™s always the date they have to have been born to legally drink.

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create the synapses, then destroy them!

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Itā€™s all about efficient pruning. :wink:

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I moved a safe about that size on Sunday, helping a friend. It took me about 5 minutes.

Just sayinā€™.

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Maybe you can hold it up to the light to see whatā€™s inside?

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I never meant 2 cause you any trouble
I never meant 2 make you get a sawzall
I only wanted 2 one time see that safe open
I only wanted 2 see you open up that safe
Stupid Safe. Stupid Safe.
Stupid Safe. Stupid Safe
Stupid Safe. Stupid Safe
I only wanted 2 see you dialing that combo
I never wanted 2 be your BB stalker
I only wanted 2 be some kind of voyeur
@beschizza I could never steal your little lockbox
ItĀ“s such a shame this thread will ever end
Stupid Safe. Stupid Safe
Stupid Safe. Stupid Safe
Stupid Safe. Stupid safe.
I only wanted 2 see you opening up that damn safe
Honey I know, I know, I know dials are spinninā€™
ItĀ“s time we all reach out 4 something new
That means thermal lance
you say you want it open
But you canĀ“t seem 2 make up your mind
I think you better open it
And let me guide you 2 all the likes
Stupid Safe. Stupid safe
Stupid safe. Stupid safe
If you know what IĀ“m singing about up here
CĀ“mon crack that safe
Stupid safe. Stupid Safe
I only want 2 see that door open
On the Stupid Safe

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I need a new audio recorder, but when Iā€™ve got it Iā€™m going to do an ultra quiet video of me turning the circly locky thingy on the safe, with some ASMR commentary on the clicks you can hear.

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Out of curiosity, how many minutes (or hours?) have you invested so far in knob-twiddling that thing in front of the TV? Or are you waiting for the tools/time/circumstances to be perfectly methodical about it?

Me, Iā€™d have dragged it into the loo so I can spin the knob while on the crapper.

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If the Deus Ex games have taught me anything itā€™s that if you write that sort of thing down anywhere some vent dwelling knob in a trench coat is going to find it.

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In total Iā€™ve tried a few hundred combinations. Practically, it takes 30s to a minute to go through one because youā€™re going left and right several times on each one, taking care to nail the number each way. So a few hours dedicated to just sitting there spinning the dial.

Thereā€™s a certain frustration in that I donā€™t really know if itā€™s left right left right or right left right left or whatever, or even if itā€™s 4 numbers (as most Yale lock stuff attests) or 5ā€¦

I was going to drill the shit out of it but itā€™s so pretty and all that asbestos talk NOPED me pretty strong on that idea.

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Plan at this point: offer up some nice video (with the promised audio) here in hopes that someone will AHAH! THIS IS A CERTAIN LOCK, DO IT THIS WAY type advice.

Then look into the robot cracking tool, which is a few hundred $$$ and can be sold on.

Then a locksmith, which will almost certainly be a colossal waste of money!

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