Safe

Picked up a broke open safe today from a business that wanted it gone. It's half of a gun safe and weighs over 200lbs. Thinking there might be some lead in there has anyone scrapped a safe? Thanks in advance for any advice before it goes in the shred pile.

We do not accept safes the contain concrete at our yard. You might want to call your yard first before you head down there with it.

i sold small safe for 300 bucks i got for free the key is if you don't have combo call safe place cost me 12 bucks for new combo.oh to help you the door comes off to lighten your load i was told after broke my butt getting it in. oh if it locked shut it not worth geting it open torch it open take cement out at that point

Yards don't want safes , But sure if they end up with one they will deal - but they seem to want them for free . One yard by me will take them and just box it up with the cars they crush in to a bale - guess they just pass the buck to China ??

Just a note on really old safes: for a brief while safe-makers strategically placed glass vials in the 'crete filled with a liquid that, when exposed to air, would poison anyone that tried to drill open the safe. Too many legit openers were killed trying to get into them and the practice was stopped.

The safes I have taken apart contained sawdust. The sawdust has got something in it to stop the fires heat getting into the safe. Its not poisonous though.

Most safes are ment as fire safes & the security is the amount of time it would take to break into it.

I have never heard about the glass vials with something in them.
Some safes do have glass tubes or sheet inside them, they break when the safes broken into & that activates a lever thing that stops the door mechinism from working.

Originally Posted by ITBoneyard

Just a note on really old safes: for a brief while safe-makers strategically placed glass vials in the 'crete filled with a liquid that, when exposed to air, would poison anyone that tried to drill open the safe. Too many legit openers were killed trying to get into them and the practice was stopped.

yeah, i know, i was one of them

Originally Posted by Bear

yeah, i know, i was one of them

Glad it didn't put you out of the game!
I worked the front counter at a locksmith shop quite a few years ago, and the safe-tech was telling me about the dangers. I can't recall exactly what it was they put in the vials, but I'm thinking it was a nerve gas of some sort. I have no idea about the particular make/models that had them though, the safe-tech had a secure website he'd log on to to get drill locations and specs for any safe ever made.

Originally Posted by KZBell

Concrete in quite a few of them.

Concrete it is. There is a cutout inside the door and they spray painted over the concrete I hadn't noticed when I was struggling to put it in the truck in the dark.
BTW It's a US Safe and the sticker on the bottom says made in korea.

Thinking it would make a nice boat or float anchor or maybe can get a new door