Most safes fall into two categories: the fire safe and the burglary safe. Fire safes are reinforced with fire retardant materials. The combination lock remains one of the safest method for securing a safe door. The central lock feature in a combination safe is the wheel pack; a collective set of devices that work together to 'know' the combination. While safe manufactures have come up with several variations on the wheel pack to deter cracking, they are all designed around the same principle. Indianapolis locksmith is well equipped to carry out these kinds of operations.
Outer Body A fully Mig welded, multi-corner single/two joint construction makes the body. All five sides and the door of the safe are armored with a specially formulated barrier material which is encased between strong 5 mm outer and 2 mm inner steel body which is withstand the attacks of sledgehammers, power drill and chisel, impect of a fall from upper floors. The overall body thickness on all five sides is 100 mm (approx) including barrier materials which offers fire as well as burglar resistance as per IS: 550 (2005).
Door The most attacked portion of a safe, the safe door is made of 12 mm heavy thick and tough steel plate reinforced with oxy-acetylene, drill resistant alloy plate and specially formulated barrier material. Overall thickness of the door will be 145 mm to 150 mm. Indianapolis locksmith takes care of this part of the mechanism.
Bolt work mechanism The door is provided with solid flanged of 5 mm steel plates on four sides, forming a lock case. Depending on the size of safe have varying number of 32 mm dia. shooting bolts as per IS: 550 (2005). Strong movable shooting bolt are evenly spaced to secure the door on the two sides, which make it impossible to dislodge the door by cutting through the hinge. Any pressure exerted on the lock bolt on one side automatically bring into play equal balancing pressure on the opposite side to neutralize and defeat the attempts to dislodge the lock. A two-step lock case construction offers better resistant again the fire and burglar attacks.
Automatic re-locking device A standard feature on all models of safe, this sensitive device is triggered-of when an attack is attempted on the lock through the keyhole with any instrument. This automatic re-locking device guards all the key locks.
Locking Mechanism The locking mechanism is operated by a handle in the front and controlled by superior quality, dual control, and high precision 10 levers locks. These locks are unpickable and only the original keys will open them.
Thus, Indianapolis locksmith at the same time explains you the advantages and the solutions for Fire and Burglar mechanisms, explaining to you in detail.
