Very happy with this opening. Traveled up to London to do this one on the train as it had been a heavy weekend at the annual locksmith show in Nottingham and couldn’t face the drive. So I packed up everything I thought I might need on this safe. The Dudley europa grade 3 was locked with a lagard comboguard locked up without a code. I managed to stow 4 stones of kit into a rucksack which started to bring back memories from a long time ago!
I arrived to find friendly staff who escorted me to the safe, supplied me with tea and left me to get on with it.
I used a technique on this safe that I am really trying to perfect, I have about 70 % of the tool working it just needs a little bit more to make it work reliably and more importantly work repeatedly for other engineers.
I directly electrically energized the lock which causes it to think that the code has been correctly inserted. Sounds simple, it isn’t. It takes alot of patience to get to this point. I was really close to opening it and the secondary prototype tool just gave up on me.
Referring to information I have in my database I selected a suitable point to drill the safe open, avoiding all the protection and anti drill measures so I could directly manipulate the lock through the hole and at the same time send in an electric charge – tricky when your on your own! I use a magnetic audio amplifier to listen to the tell tale sounds coming from within the lock case to tell me when its ‘open’
After a quick call I continued with my plan and literally 2 minutes later the handle turned.
Customer very happy and recovered the contents.
Glad to drop that bag off when I got home!