Thread: Moving the gun safe

m101a1's Advice is the best. as for you not being best with hand tools have you got a trusted mate who's good on the tools that'd be keen to help you out for the new fitout?

75 mm coach bolt screws,10mm dia.Into wall studs and thru floor into joist or blocks of timber under floor.I got a pass for doing this in chch few years ago.Put a big dob of fibar glass glue around hex bolt head.Goes really hard and bitch for thiefs to grind off to get socket over hex bolt head.Do this to about half your bolts heads.Im a expert.lols

Originally Posted by Doghead

How to solve my problem - Bank safe - 6 inch walls - 2.5 ton, ABP, and the police say it it needs bolting down.......now - how the fuck do I do that?

Logic goes out the minute.

Common sense ain't so common any more. And was it police, or some numpty civie "vetting officer" who knows nothing about reality?

Originally Posted by Trout

75 mm coach bolt screws,10mm dia.Into wall studs and thru floor into joist or blocks of timber under floor.I got a pass for doing this in chch few years ago.Put a big dob of fibar glass glue around hex bolt head.Goes really hard and bitch for thiefs to grind off to get socket over hex bolt head.Do this to about half your bolts heads.Im a expert.lols

But aren't your bolt heads inside the safe?

Thats right lols but it looks good for the educated vetting inspector.

Originally Posted by Trout

Thats right lols but it looks good for the educated vetting inspector.

I think you've been over-thinking that one, Trout.
Why would you want to go to the trouble of "putting a big dob of fibreglass around the bolt head/s"? If the miscreant has managed to get the safe open, I'm sure as hell certain that the last thing on their mind is to remove the safe. It's the contents they're after, isn't it??

Sometimes it would be easier and quieter to prize a gun safe off a wall using a hand pumped porta power and block of wood and crowe bar.Than to use a noisey battery angle grinder and a pack of fine cutting discs to cut into safe waking the neighbors up.

Originally Posted by Doghead

How to solve my problem - Bank safe - 6 inch walls - 2.5 ton, ABP, and the police say it it needs bolting down.......now - how the fuck do I do that?

Logic goes out the minute.

its 2.5t......the inspecter is NEVER going to be capable of lifting it to look.....so put some bolts down into the base and have some nuts coming up from the bottom..... the connecting of those two bits is neither feasible nor necessary.....or checkable if you think about it.

Originally Posted by Trout

Sometimes it would be easier and quieter to prize a gun safe off a wall using a hand pumped porta power and block of wood and crowe bar.Than to use a noisey battery angle grinder and a pack of fine cutting discs to cut into safe waking the neighbors up.

A bunch of pillows over the grinder shuts them up. But makes it a bugger to see what you are doing!

It's the only thing I use now. Haven't used nails in years. I like the bugle head counter sunk ones to give a flush finish in wood.

Originally Posted by sig4x4

tek screws are like duct tape and zip ties . mans best inventions, and holding the world together

Originally Posted by Mr300WSM

but im the guy that’s wife doesn’t let use power tools

If you could find these in size fit to your requirement, you can do it quietly. I think...Good luck

@ Mr300wsm

M101a1 pretty much nailed it with his advice, it’s an easy job if you work with tools every day, it’s also an easy job if you have done it once before.

But any job can seem intimidating when you’re stepping into the unknown especially when you have to have faith enough to finish it because you know there’s no going back like when you start ripping everything out of the bathroom to redo it.

If you’re finding the job daunting, feel free to pm me your contact number, I am happy to talk you through the different steps as you go and advise on what to check for at the start and some tips and tricks to get you through.

It's not likely that a professional thief is going to try and break into your firearm security unless they know you have a lot of valuable firearms. It's usually the opportunist meth head that will try and grab anything they can and get out of there as fast as they can. They're not likely to carry specialist equipment or angle grinders.

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

It's not likely that a professional thief is going to try and break into your firearm security unless they know you have a lot of valuable firearms. It's usually the opportunist meth head that will try and grab anything they can and get out of there as fast as they can. They're not likely to carry specialist equipment or angle grinders.

unless they already know what is there, and where it is. In which case your security has already failed.

Originally Posted by XR500

A bunch of pillows over the grinder shuts them up. But makes it a bugger to see what you are doing!

You mean the smoke? The pillow would be on fire in no time.

I had to use a 1mm cutoff disc recently on some thicknesser knives which are only 3mm thick. I clamped the blades between two bits of timber and put them in the wood vice. As it's my good wood bench, I didn't want abrasive shit all over it so got an old sheet and covered the bench and vice jaws. In no time, the stream of grinding sparks was close to setting the sheet on fire despite being about 250mm away from the cutting spot. Had to put a metal deflector over the hot spot.