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Posted: 3/14/2015 5:22:50 PM EDT
| Does this make a safe less secure/more vulnerable? |
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Well thats definitely not a tl;dr post  but I trust
your response/knowledge. Thank You! Quoted:
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In short. Yes. For several reasons. Well thats definitely not a tl;dr post but I trust
your response/knowledge. Thank You! There are very good safes with redundant locks, accomplished through something like the Lagard Redundant mechanical, or a special boltwork design where the primary lock rides on a movable sled that is bolted to a tapped bolt on the backup/redundant lock. If the primary lock craps out, you are able open the safe with the redundant lock. When the redundant lock is unlocked and its bolt is retracted it literally pulls the primary lock out of the way of the boltwork allowing the safe to be opened. For various reasons you will almost never see a key lock in this capacity with one of the primary reasons being key control. I am sure Frank has seen more variants than me, he works with this stuff day to day. The majority of the safes out there with key overrides are trash and many are the ones you see YouTube videos about being opened with paper clips. ---Aaron |
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