I currently have a very old commercial money type safe that I hauled off for free 30 years ago. It truly is a bank vault on wheels. It is solid freaking, can't broken into it steel. Multi step door interlocks,,, yada yada yada.... It's a BEAST! But to put a long gun it, it has to be put in a sock and canted. Yeah know the type. Heck it's so fire proof it's not funny with 8" thick solid steel box and matching door. As a respected hobbyist lock smith myself. I have allowed a few trusted lock smiths over the years to bring apprentice smiths into my home and use the safe as a study project if you will.
Anyway somebody has offered me more money for the safe than I think it's worth at 10 fold. And many times more than I've ever seen a safe of the type and brand sell for. The seller has paid me 1/2 down and has no real time limit on the final sale and pick up date. A day to one year,,,, no problem.
So this leaves me needing to buy a modern safe. No rush but,,, it has to be done. I have been looking, researching, pricing, comparing. And honestly I'm just about lost.
What I need in a safe is pretty simple. I do also have a gang type box that is fire lined and sealed that I keep a lot of C&R in that I've bought over the last two years.
The new safe needs to hold my pride weapon's, important papers, wife's jewels, a laptop that has our life on it. Money and or gold and silver. With a good steel shell of 10g min. I want 1 hour min fire stop by current marking hype. Combo lock. I can increase door gasket/fire stop very easy with boiler sealing methods. ( It's part of my trade/craft ) I don't mine purchasing a slightly under fire rated safe and turning it into a fire defeating beast. I know how to do that at penny's on the dollar over retail junk claims..... Simple and cheap.
But it needs to be a good theft proof safe.
Also I don't care about life time fire and BG warranty. I'm not into paying for others insurance!
I need the safe to hold a .50 BMG bolt action cannon and four more scoped long guns. A combat and uplands 10ga shot gun. One AR and one AK and 2 06's. A gagal of pistols. And at leat 2k rounds of my very best ammo.
I do not care about paint, finish, pin stripes, a freaking Elk or Pointers or GO USA Themes, nor back lighting or mirrors. I can strip and refinish a safe better than any lot that claims auto finish. Or CUSTOM BS. I have high end spray guns, booth and advance ceramic, epoxy, and even rust bluing ability's at my deployment. Which adds a question to be asked. Does anybody know of a company that build a solid safe in primer and just a open box I can finish out myself.
I have looked into vaulting out the closet in my office. But darn, do folks want big money for what they claim to be a vault door. In my opinion I do not see the 4 to $20k they want for them.
I honestly do not want to pay more than $1700 for a stand alone safe that I can mod to my standards and no more than $2k for a so called vault door. I can insulate and build the closet out for under $1k with .50" boiler plate steel and extreme insulation.
What do you say. I need some help here. Talk it down up, sideways, or your freaking crazy.
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Anyway somebody has offered me more money for the safe than I think it's worth at 10 fold. And many times more than I've ever seen a safe of the type and brand sell for. The seller has paid me 1/2 down and has no real time limit on the final sale and pick up date. A day to one year,,,, no problem.
So this leaves me needing to buy a modern safe. No rush but,,, it has to be done. I have been looking, researching, pricing, comparing. And honestly I'm just about lost.
What I need in a safe is pretty simple. I do also have a gang type box that is fire lined and sealed that I keep a lot of C&R in that I've bought over the last two years.
The new safe needs to hold my pride weapon's, important papers, wife's jewels, a laptop that has our life on it. Money and or gold and silver. With a good steel shell of 10g min. I want 1 hour min fire stop by current marking hype. Combo lock. I can increase door gasket/fire stop very easy with boiler sealing methods. ( It's part of my trade/craft ) I don't mine purchasing a slightly under fire rated safe and turning it into a fire defeating beast. I know how to do that at penny's on the dollar over retail junk claims..... Simple and cheap.
But it needs to be a good theft proof safe. Also I don't care about life time fire and BG warranty. I'm not into paying for others insurance!
I need the safe to hold a .50 BMG bolt action cannon and four more scoped long guns. A combat and uplands 10ga shot gun. One AR and one AK and 2 06's. A gagal of pistols. And at leat 2k rounds of my very best ammo.
I do not care about paint, finish, pin stripes, a freaking Elk or Pointers or GO USA Themes, nor back lighting or mirrors. I can strip and refinish a safe better than any lot that claims auto finish. Or CUSTOM BS. I have high end spray guns, booth and advance ceramic, epoxy, and even rust bluing ability's at my deployment. Which adds a question to be asked. Does anybody know of a company that build a solid safe in primer and just a open box I can finish out myself.
I have looked into vaulting out the closet in my office. But darn, do folks want big money for what they claim to be a vault door. In my opinion I do not see the 4 to $20k they want for them.
I honestly do not want to pay more than $1700 for a stand alone safe that I can mod to my standards and no more than $2k for a so called vault door. I can insulate and build the closet out for under $1k with .50" boiler plate steel and extreme insulation.
What do you say. I need some help here. Talk it down up, sideways, or your freaking crazy.
Post Up!
Thanks
