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Posted by Bob Chilcoat on May 1, 2006, 8:48 pm
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We want to get a safe for a church that was recently broken into. I once
went to a used office supply that had a lot of safes, free for the taking.
They were hundreds of pounds weight and would have needed to have been
"cracked" since the combinations were long gone. That company is out of
business. Anyone know of another place I might find a safe in the
central/northern NJ area that we could get cheap? Thanks.
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Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)
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Posted by RoyJ on May 1, 2006, 10:31 pm
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Ask around, keep your eyes open, check with the local locksmiths. I
know, I know, you think they will be expensive. You may be surprised.
What you are looking for is the guy at work who asked me a few weeks
back, "you know anyone who wants a BIG, UGLY, HEAVY safe?" We are
thinking of moving and I don't want to move that thing again. Sorry,
midwest location.
You will want to have the combination changed.
Bob Chilcoat wrote:
> We want to get a safe for a church that was recently broken into. I once
> went to a used office supply that had a lot of safes, free for the taking.
> They were hundreds of pounds weight and would have needed to have been
> "cracked" since the combinations were long gone. That company is out of
> business. Anyone know of another place I might find a safe in the
> central/northern NJ area that we could get cheap? Thanks.
>
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Posted by StaticsJason on May 1, 2006, 10:34 pm
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> We want to get a safe for a church that was recently broken into. I once
> went to a used office supply that had a lot of safes, free for the taking.
> They were hundreds of pounds weight and would have needed to have been
> "cracked" since the combinations were long gone. That company is out of
> business. Anyone know of another place I might find a safe in the
> central/northern NJ area that we could get cheap? Thanks.
>
> --
> Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)
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A friend has a retired automatic teller safe. It's pretty substantial,
obviously. Nothing shady about how he got it by the way - automatic teller
technology advances, albeit slower than personal computer tech, and when it
does atm's are retired and the electronics/money handling portions are
removed. Some places may make them available as scrap though the safe
portion is still a safe, and functional. Couldn't tell you a specific place
to look but googling atm builders might put you on the trail.
StaticsJason
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Posted by Tom Gardner on May 1, 2006, 11:13 pm
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> We want to get a safe for a church that was recently broken into. I once
> went to a used office supply that had a lot of safes, free for the taking.
> They were hundreds of pounds weight and would have needed to have been
> "cracked" since the combinations were long gone. That company is out of
> business. Anyone know of another place I might find a safe in the
> central/northern NJ area that we could get cheap? Thanks.
>
> --
> Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)
Come and get it! Is Cleveland too far? It's like a 3' cube or so.
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Posted by Richard J Kinch on May 2, 2006, 1:58 am
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> Anyone know of another place I might find a safe in the
> central/northern NJ area that we could get cheap?
You want a small UL rated money safe. Forget anything that isn't UL
rated for burglary. The rating will be something like TL-15 for 15
minutes. This means it you had the safe in a machine shop, it would
still take 15 minutes to get inside.
When I had a storefront years ago, I obtained such an item very cheaply
from a credit union that was growing and moving. Used safes are very
hard to sell, so you can probably get one cheaply. The hard part is
finding one.
A big old safe is probably not as secure as a small modern one. Mine
was only about an 18 inch cube, but it had 1-inch thick walls, hardened
inserts, and was anchored to the concrete slab through holes on the
bottom. I bought bags of lead reloading shot and filled it up about
halfway so that it weighed over 1000 lbs. Not many thieves can hoist a
cube that size and weight. The shot costs a bit, but it is a readily
resold commodity. The shop was burglarized 3 times, but the bad guys
never even attempted the safe.
When I closed the shop, I wound up selling the safe and the lead to a
jeweler who needed a UL safe to satify his insurance underwriters.
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> went to a used office supply that had a lot of safes, free for the taking.
> They were hundreds of pounds weight and would have needed to have been
> "cracked" since the combinations were long gone. That company is out of
> business. Anyone know of another place I might find a safe in the
> central/northern NJ area that we could get cheap? Thanks.
>