My vocation is handyman. I have done many things over the years and my days are varied and interesting. Yesterday my customer had a safe that was pulled from a home that she could not open. She had lost the combination and the key (both were needed to open the safe). She wanted to know that she was not losing anything valuable, so... I brought over a Skil saw with a diamond blade for cutting masonry, tile, stone... Not really intended for the steel bars I expected to find in the wall of the safe, but I had a angle grinder with a metal blade so I thought I would use that to cut the steel part of the safe. Well, let me tell you. That diamond blade in the Skil saw went through it like butter. There was no steel bars in the wall of the safe. The compound inside the wall was like a fiberglass puffed and infused with a puffy cement type product. I popped the square out with a pry bar, used the angle grinder to cut through the plastic inside liner and. viola!
My analysis of the safe is this... As a resistant to fire, it might be okay (had I used an acetylene torch to open it, I would be able to speak more knowledgeably regarding its' fire resistance), but having popped it open like a walnut (it took me 20 minutes, and I didn't even know what I was doing), one should not rely on the "safe" for keeping things inside from being unsafe.
It will be tossed in with the next load. It will be a steel seed.
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