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We received a call to open this Sentry safe with lost keys in Denbigh, Wales. The picture shows how we found the safe with a broken electronic lock and handle. We picked the lock open but with no handle to retract the boltwork we had to deal with that a different way but the owner was upgrading to a newer safe anyway and only required it opening so no repairs were necessary.
We were called to open this antique John Port safe at a Church in Openshaw, Manchester. During some renovation work the safe was getting stripped down prior to painting and they could no longer open the safe door. We opened it and found the edges of the door and frame coated in paint and the door would not shut and lock because of this. We stripped away the excess paint and got the door opening and closing nice and smoothly.
We were referred this job by a locksmith who had identified that the key had snapped in the lock and would not move in either direction. This Phoenix safe was located at a medical practice in Denbigh, Wales. On attending site we confirmed the locksmiths findings and diagnosed an internal fault preventing the bolt from retracting which caused the key to snap. At this stage we thought there was a high probability that the container would need to be drilled but pulling an ace out of our sleeve we got the bolt to retract and open the door. Once open we could see that the door had been violently closed whilst the lock was in the locked position which had bent the boltwork enough for it to jam. Having straightened out the boltwork the next step was to extract the broken key which turned out to be very stubborn and we ended up stripping the whole lock down in order to get the broken bit out.
This J.Grove & Son safe was acquired by the purchaser of a building in Bredbury, Stockport. Unfortunately it didn’t come with any keys so we were called to open the safe and supply new keys. Once we had picked the locks on the main door we found an internal locked coffer which we also picked open.
The safe plaque reads:
DEFIANCE SAFE WORKS LATE WITH CHUBBS
MANUFACTURED BY J.GROVE & SON BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND
The lock escutcheons read:
GROVE & SON INVINCIBLE LOCK
The key had been lost to this SMP Economy safe at a residence in Heswall, Merseyside. We attended site and opened it for the elderly gentleman who no longer wished to use it as it was getting difficult for him to bend down to open it so we were not required to supply new keys on this occasion.
The safe was initially purchased from the Liverpool branch of Withy Grove Stores which was incorporated on the 20th November 1959 but the company has since been dissolved. The address on the sticker is 21-29 Fontenoy Street, Liverpool, L3 2EH
The keys had been lost to this possibly antique safe at a pub in Hyde, Manchester. The name plate had been removed and we have so far been unable to identify the make of safe. This didn’t stop us from picking the lock open however and making new keys for the owner.
When an Ormskirk care home lost the keys to their Denward CDC335 controlled drug cabinet they called us to get it open. We picked the lock, re-levered it and provided new keys so that the old keys could no longer be used.
Denward manufacture these cabinets in the UK and they adhere to the requirements of “The Misuse of Drugs Safe Custody Regulations 1973”
We received a call at midnight from a residential care home in Ormskirk who had lost the keys to their Nomad medication trolley. The residents were in urgent need of the medication inside so we headed off immediately. Once on site we opened the trolley without causing any damage and replaced the lock supplying them with two new keys.
The electronics had failed on this Kamasa Tools digital safe on the Wirral some time ago and the customer had been using the override key lock to secure it. The keys were now lost and the customer had attempted to break into it himself without any luck. The damage you see is from from his attempts and not from our professional opening which caused no further damage to the safe.
After opening the safe we advised that it would be more cost effective to replace it than to have it repaired due to the damage that had been caused. Most safes require specialist tools and expert knowledge to open them without damage, attempting to open a safe without the key or combination is likely to not end up well and will often be more expensive than calling a professional from the start.
The combination had been lost to this Fort Knox Chancellor under floor safe at a private residence in Maghull, Merseyside. We attended the customers home and identified the lock as a La Gard Group two, three wheel combination lock, initial diagnostics suggested that the lock was working correctly so we began the process of manipulating it open.
Manipulation is a process of discovering the combination of the lock and is often depicted in movies with the safe cracker using a stethoscope or an upturned glass tumbler to listen to the lock. Whilst we carry high tech listening devices they are not always necessary and with this lock we didn’t need anything but our un-sanded fingers to identify what the lock was ‘saying’ to us. Within a short space of time the lock had given up its first number of the combination shortly followed by the second and the third at which point the lid could be removed to reveal the safes contents. We then reset the combination to one of the owners choosing and gave instructions on how to dial the lock and how to insert and remove the lid.
Fort Knox safes are unfortunately no longer trading but they were based in Maghull so this one didn’t have to travel far from the factory where it was made.