I have 'popped' a few safes in my time too. Congratulations on your 'New string to your bow', safecracker, tankbuster, can man,.....
Basically a safe is to protect the valuables from fire, as security all it has to do is slow the person down long enough for Police to arrive or evidence to be dropped in the process, or just to make it plain **** difficult.
I was looking thru some older 1960's newspapers, every week there was a news item of a safe being broken into.
These days it'd be less then one a year.
I have a book about safe breaking and the history of safes.
One idea they used to use was to roll a tube of cellophane and slide it down the inside front edge of the door.
Once it popped out the bottom, they would mold some putty into a tray/scoop, up at the top and form the cellophanes top end into a funnel inside the putty tray.
They would put the detonator into the tray and slowly pour nitroglycerine into the putty tray and when it came out the bottom of the tube, they would fold it over to seal it off.
Then run out to where they had the battery or generator and fire the explosive so it blew the door open.
Old school..... I wouldn't recommend it myself....
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