Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:29 am by hammong
Many thanks to you, brother! I was having some difficulty figuring out the H/L tests after graphing. What seems "simple" now with placing the wheels and direction was for some reason really difficult to comprehend in plain text. Your video helped immensely!
A few tips I picked up after working 30+ hours on this safe I picked up last week with a S&G 6700 series lock.
- The safe is a floor model and I think sat with the lock horizontally for most of it's life. The dial has a lot of resistance when it's set up vertically, and I think that extra resistance and irregularity in the wheel shapes caused me to misread some tension close to the contact points as the contact point itself. The tip here is that I can clearly feel (and hear, with amplification) the contact when it's made, and the graph clearly shows the difference when a gate is under the fence. But, if I rely on those subtle "touch" differences around the dial, I was stopping before I touched the contact points.
- Obviously somebody changed the combo on this safe before I got it. The final combo was 6-70-5. My contact points are 7.6/13.3 or so, so two of the numbers are really close to the 7.6 (right? left? I'm still unsure, LOL) contact point. Worse, the last dialed number is inside the "forbidden" zone, so I wasn't even testing that on W3. Lesson learned - Damn the "forbidden zone" to hell! Somebody set the last number in the zone. Also, because I thought I found a good gate at "12" (probably the nose/cam) I didn't actually work my way down to 5-6-7 to check the contact points when going AWR. Oops, I missed my gate because I didn't look for it. Tip: FINISH YOUR GRAPH, even if you think you found a good gate earlier.
Great job!! Thanks again! I'm going to make a new post with my safe and graphs, maybe it will help.