Zappa wrote:How can you market something ' Super heavy Duty:" 14 gun safe with only 2mm thick walls? Without a structural skeleton and at that size surely the walls loose their tensile rigidity. Not to mention can contort , causing the door to bind over time.
20 gun safes with 2mm housing thickness and 3mm doors are a joke.
Zappa wrote:My recent experience with the 8 gun safe I purchased a while back (and promptly returned), was as flimsy as a coke can. I had problems with the door closing because it was bent out of shape, not squaring up to the frame. When I attempted to 'co-erse' it back into shape, i could feel the safe contorting a bit.
I never did bolt it down, but not sure it would have bought it back into alignment. I would have to make sure my floor was perfectly level beforehand though. ;p
A 20 gun safe has on average a 650mm depth (span) . With a 2mm wall knowing that'll be picking up at least 14 guns, I think my time with a few swings of a sharp axe would be worthwhile. Would 3mm thickness be any better ? I doubt it.
Zappa wrote:If you can recess those 2mm safes into a wall or the ground , it would make them x10 stronger. One would have to fiddle with the door to crack it open.
SA have some odd regs. If the firearms are to be stored in an outbuilding, the safe has to be of a class 2 spec. ie... 3mm. . As if to say that extra 1mm ( from a class 1 ) would make all the difference someone trying to open up your safe in the shed.
pomemax wrote: I just think of it as I know where all my firearms are now used to be all over the place .
bladeracer wrote:Even easier is to threaten a loved one until you open it for them.