Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:33 pm by MartinHewitt
After a to long holiday from safe opening I got today the chance to open another one. And I didn't have to leave my office as it was brought to me. The lock is a La Gard 3330.
In Germany one of the many stories of safe fairy lore is the "Kuchenblechmafia" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lyoUe7CEYs . A Kuchenblech is a baking tray. The guy in the coat is criticizing the safes, which have a sheet thickness like a baking tray. Literal translation is "cake sheet". The sheet in the name is working better to make the connection with the sheets from which the safe was made. This safe here is showing even better that Rauh (the guy in the coat) is right. Wall and door are made from two thin layers of steel sheet with really nothing worth to be mentioned in between. It weighs 80kg. There isn't any real bolt work behind the fake handle. The bolt work consists of a weak strip of steel with four bolts that is connected directly to the lock bolt. I can push the top and bottom bolts fully in just with my thumb. Rauh is claiming fraud and he is there IMHO right too. The price of this safe 20 years ago would be now (corrected by inflation) about $1000. Where Rauh was really a dud was with burglary. If he would have been a good burglar we would have to miss this great video.
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MartinHewitt on Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:05 am, edited 1 time in total.