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Posted: 10/2/2015 3:56:45 PM EDT
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This past December I took delivery of a new AMSEC BF6030. Low and behold, less than a year later I found myself needing more room. As such, I called the place I bought the original from and worked a deal where they took the old one, and gave me the new one for a fair price.
Now that I've had the new one a few days, I have two issues: 1) the mechanical lock's dial is much harder to turn on the new unit. AMSEC said give it a few weeks and see what happens. Will it really loosen up? It's not a wear item, so I can't believe it will get any better? 2) the door on the new safe has noticeable wiggle room, whereas I don't recall the old (smaller) safe having any. I measured the play with the stem end of some digital calipers at two spots, and the door moves 0.092" (top left) and 0.11" (middle) when locked. Is this excessive? AMSEC says that it is OK/normal, but it sure doesn't strike me as "safe" especially when I just dropped some serious cash on this thing. Thoughts? Thanks |
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I suspect if the dial is "tight" you are either dealing with an off center dial ring (should be able to tell by looking straight down from above to see if the dial is canted within the ring), or somebody threaded the driver on one revolution too tight. Both of these issues will require removing the door panel and lock cover to correct.
All of these gun safes are mass produced with "bent" bodies. You have to have enough slop so that any of the doors will fit into any of the bodies. Every gun safe that I'm aware of has the same issue, although different manufacturers address it a bit differently. On the flip side, had the safe been adjusted before you had the opportunity to discover the issue, you would have never even known as the door would have been snug. Most people are surprised to know it's just an adjustment that makes the door snug as opposed to manufacturing methods with very low tolerances. |
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