This is a Peake Fireguard safe that originally had a Willenhall 7 lever lock fitted. The customer wanted a combination lock fitting. After a site visit I noticed that the safe had been pre-drilled to accept other locks. Great I thought…
Armed with a brand new combination lock I returned and started to go about fitting the lock. 1 hour tops. When I removed the existing lock and held up the new combination lock I noticed that all the holes had been drilled about 4mm too high. This meant that the lock, or any other standard euro footprint lock would not fit into the safe without major work. If the distance had been greater than it wouldn’t have been such a problem but due to the proximity if I drilled the holes would have overlapped. Chemical metal is good but I would not want to rely on it for fixing a lock inside the safe door.
I decided upon a plan which involved modifying the lock to suit the door, it was quite time consuming and difficult with the tools I had at my disposal but I got the lock fitted and working.
I don’t think the lock hit it off with the safe as when I went to put in a new code a component in the lock slipped and the dial ground to an abrupt halt. After several tries this fault kept repeating itself. Not happy with this and fearing a lock out I replaced the old lock and took the new lock away to examine.
I found that a single component had been installed incorrectly in the lock, this was causing all the problems. I tried several code changes and it worked every time.
Back to site I re-installed the combination lock, the customer inputted a new code and tested the lock several times before I left.
A simple job that turned out to be a bit of a nightmare!
If you have a Peake safe and want a combination lock fitted give me a call. A free site visit will be a must from now on though!