"Randy333" wrote in message
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On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:21:36 -0500, "Joe AutoDrill"
wrote:

I'm buying a safe for personal papers and possibly some light valuables...
But God only knows what I'll be using it for 5 years from now.

It has holes in the bottom to bolt it down and I think I can get a 3/4"
thick metal plate in there too with holes in the same locations to further
beef up the bottom...

What would *you* do to properly secure a safe to the floor, wall, etc.?

I'm not to worried about someone breaching the door as I'm not keeping
super-valuables in there, but I do plan on making sure that anyone who
tries
to simply run away with the safe has one heck of a hard time getting it
off
the concrete floor...



Joe,
No need to go overboard here, if you ever watched the show "it
takes a theif" the new one on home security that is. Just use lead
sheilds or thunder studs and bolt it down, if it's half way hard to
take the average theif will leave it. They want to be in and out
fast.

Run a peice of thermostat wire to it, just so it appears to be
connected to an alarm circuit.

UNLESS... you think the theif might have a long to work at it, like
your house is way off the beaten path and no one will notice, then get
a better grade of safe and use the other suggestions to bolt the hell
out of it.

McMaster version of what I call a thunder stud.....97046A119


Mine is a ~1911 Mosler Cannonball and it was embedded in the concrete
foundation ~1962 or thereabouts.

So far as the legend goes the owner was awakened in his sleep sometime in
1964 or so and was held at gunpoint while his wife was taken
downstairs...though she had no idea what the combination was...

--Later, he was taken downstairs and finally he opened it after several
tries, proving his previous claims of it's being empty..

As it sits, nowadays it cannot be shut--let alone be locked unless someone
were to re-install the main hinge pins etc which are all intact and sitting
inside the safe.

Luckily, nobody was killed in the process--and the perps were caught...

Still, I suggest rent a safety deposit box at your local bank instead.

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