Locksmiths have had these for years. They’ll typically show up, attach the device, and then come back in a couple of days after it’s racked through all the possible combinations and unlocked it.
Ugh hate those locks. Only one guy could open them, when asked how he would “show” you by doing it in under a second. Then you ask him again he shugs and says “muscle memory”. Arsehole.
Nobody knew which way to spin it first and the bloody code didn’t work! I swear that code was wrong! Spent hours on that stupid safe. My colleagues spent hours on that stupid safe it doesn’t work! Piece of shit lock.
Honestly greatest thing about leaving that job. Not having to deal with that safe.
We have a safe at work where we keep backups and ‘legal hold’ stuff. We hardly ever need to get into it. The first audit we had after I started and the guy who had been running things walks up to the safe and just opens it… without entering the code. The auditor looks at me, and I look at my employee and ask him if the safe is broken, and he said “No, I put the code in earlier so it would be easier to open for the audit.”
Needless to say, we got dinged on that part of the audit.
Turn the dial counterclockwise past your first number three times, stopping on it the fourth time. Dial clockwise to the second number three times, dial counterclockwise to the third number twice, turn the dial clockwise until you feel the bolt retract. The latch will engage at about 0 and the dial will turn no farther than 85, probably it will stop at 90. Turn the lock lever to open the door
Spent hours on that stupid safe.
Skill issue
Wait so. You are supposed to go past the last number until around 85-90? I think it was a 4 digit code as well if I remember right. So I spun it atleast 5 times. Well I spun it whatever direction I started way over what I needed as time went on.
Skill issue
Well yeah obviously.
So i don’t know which lock you had, the comment I made above describes most of the consumer dial safe locks out there, but not all.
Yours may have been like what I mentioned, and the last number was 90 or something so people would dial it correctly, or it may have been a different design with drop gates where you dial all the numbers and stop on the last number. It may have been a start CW instead of CCW, there’s a few different designs.
Spinning it lots of times at the beginning never hurts, it clears the wheel packs. Thanks for having a sense of humor btw lol
Anyway, yeah, they can be overly complicated and a business should have a keypad safe and good insurance. The tech or manager or whoever that showed you how to unlock the safe was a dick for sure
Man this reminds me of the lockers we had in middle school that used dial locks, cheap masterlock jobbies that despite having notches between the major numbers, just being within 2 of the actual number would register.
Plus it felt like they’d slip internally so if you dialed too quickly (because class starts in 3 minutes at the other end of the building) you’d have to start all over.
Thanks to the Lockpickinglawyer I now have 2 different locks on my door.
Now you can keep out LPL for 30 seconds instead of the usual 10-15!
I used to not understand them, but learning how their internal mechanism functions has helped a lot. Now I can just visualize what’s happening inside the infernal contraption
If I’m not mistaken, LPL once showed a video about safe crackers on YouTube. I admit it’s very cool but…he mentioned that the safe cracker takes very long to open the safe, even for easiest lock pattern
They can take hours to dial every combination of an S&G lock. Cheaper locks are quicker. Most Sentry “safe” dials can be manipulated in minutes if you know what you’re doing, no dialer needed
These tools are also pretty expensive and difficult to source if you’re not in the industry
I think the special thing about this one is that it’s open source and you can build it from common components, which makes sense. You literally just need a stepper or servo motor with the correct algorithm and a few bits & pieces to apply that motor to the dial.
It should be easy enough to build this for no more than a hundred bucks, maybe less if you can get cheap parts or you’re building more than one. It’s actually less complex than a basic 3d printer.
The expensive part comes from the low volume production and the professional customers. Plus the software is probably proprietary. It takes expertise and to make a business out of that means high individual prices.
So it’s really a perfect candidate for open sourcing.
You’re correct. Here it is in action: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vkk-2QEUvuk
I thought it was some homebrew control for the shower.
