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SMP Community 3, keylock & Smartgard Opening
Hi all, thought it time I try and make a contribution to the safe engineer’s articles although for lots of you this may not be anything new!
On many occasions now I have come across the SMP Com 3 with the combination of smart guard swing bolt digi and 9 lever curtain lock without key or code (usually ex travel agents) and until as recently as last week I did not own a pick for this lock.
Rosengrens European - lost keys
In the second of our articles by Mike Stansfield, he explains a Rosengren's European opening...
Cencon opening
This is the first of a couple of articles by Mike Stansfield. Both have previously been printed in the SAVTA magazine....
6120 opening
Here is a short article on my first experience with opening a safe with 6120. It was a Rosengren European which I had to open a few days ago....FICHET CARINA WITH ELECTRONIC LOCK
By Tom Moore We had a Fichet Carina Grade 2 in our depot which was locked out with unknown code on a Fichet electronic lock and no keys. I had not seen this lock and the other Saturday decided to open the safe. I thought some of you may be interested in the opening and the lock....
Advanced Manipulation
Many of us that do manipulation will have come across the situation where one side of a wheel reads very high and the other side does not read at all....Axxteq
We had a call to open an Axxteq parking ticket machine which we had never seen anything of before. I called to site and had a check of a few things, did it have glass, what lock etc etc. The machine had a Cawi lock fitted, and although I wasn’t sure exactly which one, I was reasonably sure we could do something with it....Chatwood Milner Smartguard opening
Chatwood Milner Duplextra mkIII Opening I recently was called out to open an old CM TDR fitted with a smartgard motor bolt lock. The LCD keypad powered from the alarm was completely dead. Even if fresh back up batteries were fitted still no joy, but strangely if the telephone connecter was disconnected from the keypad it would spring into life....TDR safes
I consider knowledge to be one of the best safe opening tools out there, confidence is another one. Not knowing how a safe is laid out or designed should not stop you from being able to open that safe, but it does normally make it a longer process if you are being careful. You could just guess as to the internal layout, and drill the safe. Perhaps you get lucky and open the safe without problems, but on the other hand it can also go terribly wrong. The safe way to attempt openings on unknown safes is to pick what you consider to be a safe area and put in a hole to have a look about (experience and good scopes are not a pre-requisite to opening safes of unknown design but they help enormously if you have them) even a bad hole will tell you something....
