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Unlocking a Gary TL-15 Round-Door Safe (2009)

Many characteristics of a safe and its lock can be determined by the safecracker even when no published or personal records can be found. Often, a logical approach is enough to...

It was a red Gary safe with a jeweled steel face and a chrome-plated, spy-proof Sargent & Greenleaf dial. It seems common for small round-door safes to be rather burglar-resistant, based on which I estimated that the lock was mounted 2” to 2+1/2” behind the face of the door. Breaking off the business end of a few used carbide-tipped drill bits, I mixed them with JB-Weld and stuffed the mixture in the hole.

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