YAST (Yet Another Safe Thread)

[Chakara]

I've been lurking forever, but my first post. I found an interesting safe today. I can pick it up for $1200 plus whatever it would cost to move. It's a Mosler Model 11. Approximate dimensions:

75 inches tall
41 inches deep
51 inches wide

From the attached pics - and my little bit of digging - I'm guessing this is more of a fire safe than a burglary safe. Mainly due to the small bolt size.

I think I found a spot for this monstrosity in my garage. For that price I don't think I could get an RSC that would even be close - but I welcome opinions/information about this unit.

Thanks all!

-Chak

 

[a1abdj]

You are correct. It is more of a fire safe than a burglary safe, however, it is still probably more secure than most gun safes. In your second pic there are three tags attached just inside of the door opening. One of those is probably a UL fire rating tag, one should be a UL relock tag, and I would bet the third is a UL tamper rating.

The RSC rating boils down to a 5 minute tamper rating. Many of these fire rated double doors have T-20 ratings, which is the same as the RSC, but for four times the amount of time.

$1,200 seems fair. We sell them for $1,500 +/-. It's a decent safe.

 

[MarkDozier]

get it, I grew up near the Mosler safe company. They are damm fine safes. The people who built thry were hard working americans and proud og thur work.

 

[Chakara]

I pulled the trigger on this thing. Will have it in the morning and might be able to let you all know a bit more about it by tomorrow night. I'm not sure on how much this thing weighs - safe movers (and yes, they are safe movers, not just moving "joe's") say 2000+

I got some more pics and was able to make out a SMNA rating of A - 4 hours @ 2000 degree's. WOW!. Also an F1-D rating - something about fire and drop rated. Not sure at this point what that means.

When the safe guys are here tomorrow they will perform maintenance on the locking mechanism - thanks to the forum or I would have never thought of that!

Right now it is not, but do people typically bolt these monstrosities down? It will be in the garage so fairly easy access for the bad guys.....

Anyway, I'm pretty excited. Not that I have a lot of stuff to put in it right now, this should handle the rest of my days. Then again - I do love guns

-Chak