Your last line made me laugh-because I’d check out the pictures, too. Hey, Osip! After checking out the innards of that Tann door, I would not want to go hard against one. Nothin like good ol Antique Mosler safe porn. Have fun and call a professional… if he comes out and opens the back cover to fix it take lots of pictures for me. I had an old Diabold with a Badger on it Monday, It was a safe built in the 30’s Badger Safe protectors contain a two or four vials of chloropicrin. Now, if there is a box mounted to the inside of the door that say “Badger Safe Protectors device” walk away and call a professional. excluding jewlers safes, they tend to have glass relockers. Glass relockers are not THAT common in the USA. I to have not ever seen a glass relocker on a Mosler. TANN shudder I had the misfortune of opening a TLTR30 that was locked up when moved then fell face first in the parking lot. It was an impressive piece of engineering. The only instance where I did encounter a glass relock sheet was a vault door manufactured by John Tann, Ltd. They have a variety of other methods to defeat forced entry. While it’s certainly “possible”, I never saw one on a Mosler, Diebold, or LeFebure safe or vault door. If it isn’t bolt bind, and isn’t time delay equipped, then there is a problem inside the boltwork requiring the services of a safe and vault technician.ĭanceswithcats-field technician/installation supervisor (former) for Inter Innovation LeFebure, who went down the drain a year or so before Mosler. Are one or more of the movements down below zero? The cover should be partially clear, exposing the winding ports, faces of the movements, and their individual indicators. Swing the door open and look for a rectangular box ~6" or 8" wide x ~4" or 5" high. On the subject of time delays and related mechanisms, many large chests have two or three movement time delays, and a broken mainspring or other malfunction in the delay case can preclude bolt retraction. There is only a three minute window to retract the lock bolt, though. In that scenario, you dial the combination normally, set an egg timer, and at the end of 15 minutes retract the lock bolt and then throw the main boltwork. When you first turn the combination dial, do you feel a drag, as if you’re winding something? If so, the combination lock is fitted with a time delay, which may be 15 or more minutes. That being said, the bolts have to be fully extended, as partial drag on the combination lock can prevent complete retraction of the lock bolt, which then interferes with retracting the main boltwork. I’m going to presume that the bolts are presently extended, because you can dial the combination. By “handle won’t move” I assume you’re talking about the handle used to throw and retract the bolts. Mosler went down the drain about 5 years ago, but their safes are well known to anybody with a safe and vault background.
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