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Rich Grise[_3_] Rich Grise[_3_] is offline
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Default Mosler safe combination

Joseph Gwinn wrote:
Ignoramus12225 wrote:
On 2011-01-21, Bob La Londe wrote:

A class C that only weight 400 lbs. Not likely.


Yeah, I wonder about that too. Should ask the seller. If the safe is
4000 lbs I would be ****ED


The walls are not all that thick, based on the photos. To me, it looks
like a secure filecabinet, not a real safe. The current ones weigh
about 400 pounds.

I concur, and this impression is reinforced by the drawer slides. They
kinda look like they're missing their drawers, or - maybe they're
Pendaflex things! No, wait - I think Igor said that it was 21" wide,
but that's the OD, and I think you can get 14" and/or 17" Pendaflexes;
but it still looks like there's something missing - I'd want some kind
of crossbar across the front before I started hanging Pendaflexes on
them.

Rats! I just now tried to backtrack to look up the pix to corroborate
my yammering, but I can't find them. I remember seeing home-made pix,
4 of them I think, with all 4 (or maybe 5 or six, I might have merely
been inattentive) views of a unit that looked really old, and a little
corroded around the edges. it had two knobs; a big one on the left with
a keyslot in the middle and that paddle thing to turn it with, and no
markings. I seem to recall it looking almost as if the two knobs overlapped
by about 1/4" or so. The right-hand knob, of course, was the combination
numbers.

Another image on that page is where I saw what looked like drawer
slides.

Thanks!
Rich