Locksmith Ledger

Many characteristics of a safe and its lock can be determined by the safecracker even when no published or personal records can be found. Often, a logical approach is enough to open the safe.

Article • July 2nd, 2009

Selling Home Safes

A safe rating label indicates the minimum standards to which a safe has been rated. Not all brands of the safes in a specific category offer the same protection.

Article • May 1st, 2009

Electromagnetic Locks

Continental Access offers electromagnetic locking products that are manufactured with holding forces from 600 to 1200 lbs. Used in correctional facilities, government institutions, airports, schools and office buildings, these locks offer end-users...

Product • March 24th, 2009

Promoting Your Business for Profit

Don’t assume your customers already know what you do. Remember, a few of these same people will walk in your store, look around at the walls holding 127,000 key blanks hanging on pegs and ask, “Do you cut keys?”

Article • January 1st, 2009

Retrofitting an Electronic Safe Lock Into A Floor Safe, PART2

I was invited to the retrofitting of an Eclipse Rota-Bolt in-floor safe with a La Gard LG BASIC electronic lock.

Article • November 1st, 2008

Retrofitting an Electronic Safe Lock Into A Floor Safe, PART 1

The development of the electronic safe lock has revolutionized the way people think about owning a safe. Operating a mechanical safe lock required not only memorizing the three or four numbers of the combination, but also what seems to be even...

Article • September 1st, 2008

Thwarting the Big Box - We Are Tradesmen

Take a moment and look at the market created with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). How can we apply this toward our safe sales and retrofits? Where’s that niche to carve out for us?

Article • May 1st, 2008

Safe Deposit Lock Facts And Figures

Bullseye S.D. Locks realized the need for replacement safe deposit locks and now offers an economical line of locks which have the same ‘footprint’ as the original products.

Article • April 1st, 2008

Electronic Safe Lock Retrofit

We retrofit the LpLOCKS RotoBolt electronic safe lock onto the C23 Cannon Series Safe, which was equipped with a mechanical combination lock.

Article • April 1st, 2008

Microwave Safe Combination Changing

A very wise man by the name of Rex Parmalee once drilled into my head that 12 (positive openings) is the number of times a combination should be dialed before closing the safe door. This lesson has served me very well over the years, and I stick to it...

Article • February 1st, 2008