Hall in 1851 to form the firm Hall & Dodds. Dodds bought Edward Hall's interest and partnered with Joseph L. Hall in a small and largely inconsequential way in Pittsburgh, PA in 1846 before moving the business to Cincinnati in 1848. Hall first began in business with his father Edward H. Hall cycled through a number of business partners and company names in the earliest years prior to incorporating and establishing Hall's Safe & Lock Co.Į. 4 Office, agency, and salesroom locations.Tapping on the dial with something like a rubberized screwdriver handle You might beĪble to nudge it into dropping in if something's a bit sticky. "fence") resting on notches (called "gates") in the wheels. What's going on inside is a bar (called a With a rubber mallet before turning the dial to open, then turn it aboutģ numbers, tap again, etc. Increasing all numbers by one or decreasing all by one in case the dialĪnother thing to try, after dialing the last number, 64, tap the door If the correct number is 44, dialingĤ3 or 45 won't work. are their any common patterns of these? IE, could I reduce the number of different numbers to try if say, the pattern usually had some specified variation between the 1st-2nd, 3rd-4th, etc? > Question: how forgiving are these combinations? IE, how much wiggle room is there on the number? can I be off by one in either direction? If I could, then I could try some "trial and error" permutations of the combinations. It's far easier and lessĮxpensive to work on a safe that is open compared to one that is locked. Inspected and serviced before closing the door. It might be worthwhile to take it to a locksmith to have the lock To re-lock, close the door, then spin the dial a few turns opposite theĭirection that caused it to stop turning. If the dial doesn't stop on its own you probably don't have the correct If this doesn't work repeat but swap clockwise and counterclockwise You may need to pry the door open if it is stuck shut with rust or debris. If the dial indeed locks up and stops turning, the lock itself is open. Pull the door open using the little knob. Then turn clockwise and the dial should stop turning on its own around Then turn it counterclockwise and stop the second time it gets to 64.
Then turn it clockwise and stop the third time it gets to 1. Turn the dial counterclockwise at least four complete revolutions and the combo is written on the outside in two places, and no matter what method I try I cannot get it to open. I have a small "portable?" safe with HHM dial and just a little knob instead of a handle. May they knock on your door instead of mine.
With weapons taken from containers that they couldn't defeat before your Wonder how you sleep at night knowing that some criminals may now be armed Info _is_ harmful if employed by persons of a less-than-honest nature. You a lock that doesn't meet my standards without TELLING you that itĭoesn't meet my standards, and I won't disseminate information that canĬause such harm to the general public, nor to just anyone who asks. I'm all for profit, myself, but I won't sell
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Seems the dummies couldn't figure how to get to step 2 if the dial was notĪvailable to knock off, first. We sold a lot of those Star safes with the removeable dial. To find someone with the skills to open the damaged containers and repair or Sensitive info on a public forum only really profited the locksmiths,īecause the crooks went home empty-handed and the many business managers had The rash of burglaries that resulted from sharing of Another _locked_ an open safe before his heroic effortĪt idiocy began. Profit didn't! One clever fellow knocked the dial off even tho the combo was Locksmiths know that this won't work on modern safes for various reasons,īut the dummies that were spending their mid-nights damaging safes to no
With a sledge-hammer, and drove the spindle into the safe with a punch.
About 15 years ago a show on the idiot-box called "That's Incredible"įeatured a man opening a _really_ old safe.
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