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On 13/02/2020 21:49, RJH wrote:
Having just had a neighbour's break-in (keys to car stolen, nothing
else), and
caught on camera several quite open casing-the-joint forays into our
between
the houses passageway (my Audi's next, apparently), we've just had a
metal
gate fitted. It's fine, quite substantial.

However, the latch and hinges are fitted with easy to remove hex nuts
(fixing
the adjustable screw hinge) and bolts (holding the latch and hinge pins
to the
brick wall).

I'd drop a spot of weld to the various bits if I had the kit and skill -
but I
don't. Any recommendations for a supplier and type of secure nuts and
bolts?
They don't have to be the last word in security - really, the padlockable
latch isn't that secure.

Cheers, Rob



If the bad guys have a battery angle grinder then they can go through most
things quite quickly (albeit noisily). I lost a padlock key recently and
it took much less than a minute to cut through the staple. Could you use a
different style of lock, rather than a padlock? Alternatively, shipping
containers have a hardened steel cover over the lock, which is completely
inside the cover - search for "lock box".

Yeah, our locked fire trail booms have the padlock
inside a big steel cylinder so there is no way to use
an angle grinder on the padlock and no one who
wants to get thru one has to worry about any noise.