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Posted: 8/13/2013 4:02:14 PM EDT
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Are most/all gun safe locks close to standardized? I currently own a Dakota Modular safe with the factory electronic lock. Overall I am quite happy with the safe and have no issues whatsoever with it, but I have had 2 friends now that have had "lock troubles" and now I am paranoid. One guy had his keypad just quit on him, the other dropped something heavy and physically broke the keypad. The miracle was that both safes were open at the time of the failure. The one with the bad keypad had the dealer that sold the safe come out and help him, and I assume they took care of him because I haven't heard him bitch about it. The physical damage one was in the process of swapping safes at the time and I assume he sold the old one as-is. Anyway kind of like when your neighbor has car trouble, you start noticing the squeaks that come out of your car, I am now worrying about my lock.
First off, is it theoretically possible to swap the factory Dakota electronic lock for a S&G electronic [the only major brand I know of]? Second, is it fiscally practical to do so, compared with locksmith lockout service if I do have a failure? Am I better off to just wait until I have a failure? If the only thing that will fit is the same thing that is on there, then how important would "having a spare" be, given the current stability of the gunsafe market. |
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