Repairing my gun safe

[Bald1]

Sooooo if I have a battery operated lock with a big key for when battery is dead, would the key work or would the electronics seize it up??????

 

[Rustyt1953]

I felt compelled...

 

[steelslaver]

For every 10 missile silos, there is an LCF (Launch Control Facility) nearby. Its the site with the missile guys (affectionately called Coneheads) down in the hole with the keys to the kingdom. In a first strike, that place will be targeted with a massive nuke. Kill it and ten missiles don’t fly to the Motherland. Anything remotely nearby might see a flash before the harp music starts.

I’m the earnest looking butterbar with the binder, briefing a convoy crew (including a uniformed US Marshal) before hauling a you-know-what from its hole to the base for some mandatory tinkering.

Luckily for me the nearest one of those is about 12 miles away as the crow flys with several ridges of terrain between me and them and it is normally down wind. But I expect this area to get quite bright during the initial festivities.

I have seen the earnest looking butter bars and others, we have them, humvees, helicopters, pickups and transport vans playing musical chairs. I could even tell you some hilarious stories about those guarding our nuclear might. Except for the occasional Humvee with the machine gun mounted, the citizens around here are better armed. The classic was a woman full bird at a K Mart whose uniform almost qualified her for on of those people of K Mart deals. Now all the missile sites have a porta potty outside their gate. Last year one of my more interesting buddies went over to one planning to use it but it was locked. I personally never go up their approach road.

They are supposed to be up grading the silos around here over a period of years.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Sooooo if I have a battery operated lock with a big key for when battery is dead, would the key work or would the electronics seize it up??????

I can open it in about 30 seconds. That’s not a safe.

 

[pistolpete10]

I have 2 safes, one is a key lock(Like it best) the other a dial. I worked at a big box for a while, we sold electronics as well as cile mechanical lock safes. When I bought the second I bought the mechanical dial lock. The key lock like the other safe was more expensive, about double the dial. Batteries, glue, tape are all temps.

 

[pharmer]

......The main problem that even in a limited exchange where infrastructure, logistical and communications centers are destroyed, it will cause a total collapse of the supply chain most urban centers depend on. Any one near a major military base or hardware supplier is probably toast of course Look what happened to the supply chain a couple years ago just from the covid shutdowns. What happens when the power, water and food supply is totally cut off to urban areas. Even if their urban assault SUV is full off gas the chances of them actually making it out off a city that approaches grid lock just during morning rush hour is near zero when they decide to all flee the hives. Those that do make it out and head to rural areas will NOT be meet with arms, but not the open type. An enemy does not need to target and kill civilians when the majority of them will perish by simple thirst and starvation and internal conflict....

Absolutely spot on.

I took a van full of "head shrinks" down to Miami on a relief trip after hurricane Andrew. 3 weeks after trash was 6 feet high on both sides of the streets, rats everywhere. After "dark dark" (when there is no power anywhere) military rolled out along with the FDLE who guarded our operation. Gunfire all night and the animals ruled. Mornings saw 4 hour lines to get in an operating McDonalds. I traded a case of tuna cans for 2 new looted strollers for 2 abandoned kids dropped on us. We turned them over to some .gov types, wasn't nobody coming back for 'em. I got pictures.
Let's get back to safe locking devices. Joe

 

[Frank46]

My safes all come withy key locks. Each gets lubed about once a month and tested to make sure they will open with the right keys. A set of the three keys are always on my person at all times.Frank

 

[BARgunner]

I changed all of my electronic locks out for mechanical dials quite awhile back after having intermittent problems with a couple of the electronic ones. Installing a mechanical lock is simple and S&G has a great YouTube video on installation and setting up the combination.

 

[Tom S.]

My most recent safe, a Fort Knox, has both electric keypad and dial, though in truth, I'd be a bit slow trying to use the dial as I rely on the keypad so much. It uses the same numbers per say, but on the keypad it's a straight 8 digit number which translates to 4, 2 digit numbers on the dial.