Gun Safe ?

[Toad]

I have been looking online for gun safes. I see a fair amount of safes with electronic touch pads. What happens when these switches go bad? Or the battery dies in the switch?

 

[Bucking Bronco]

I have one and when the battery dies the front panel comes off and I replace the batteries. Mine will lose any programmed codes and goes back to the default. So make sure you have the default code written down somewhere not in the safe.

 

[utah340six]

are you talking big safe or 1 for a hand gun

 

[jpest]

If You get a quality keypad with your safe it should retain the existing code when the battery goes dead.

 

[TRNDRVR]

Screw the keypad!

Get a safe with an S&G Group II 3 wheel combination lock. Practically maintenance free.

Remember, safes are built by standards instilled by the insurance industry. So if you buy a brand 'a' safe, or a brand 'z' safe, if they both have the same rating, they will be constructed the same. The difference will be in the name, finish, size configuration, and price.

HTH

 

[oldschoolyj]

I have a liberty gun safe that the electronic key pad was screwed up on. They sent a lock smith who drilled 6 holes through the front of the safe and 8 hours later still was not in. They sent another lock smith who drilled 4 more holes and had the door opened in 4 hours. The new style locks were bad, he put in an older style. They fill the holes with s.s. balls that they glue in. I bet I could be in it now in 10 minutes, with all the holes drilled behind the key pad. I tried to get them to replace the door. Not part of the warrenty from the key pad people. I would only buy the combo style. The electronic ones do malfunction and it happens more than what they tell you.

 

[lewis]

Mine is a Stack-On I got from Cal Ranch. It has the electric keypad and a key. If the key pad batteries die (which they have but it gives you a warning with a red light and I have never been locked out of it) then the key pad can be removed (kind of a pain in the ass) and it has a key that will open it.

 

[Toad]

I have a liberty gun safe that the electronic key pad was screwed up on. They sent a lock smith who drilled 6 holes through the front of the safe and 8 hours later still was not in. They sent another lock smith who drilled 4 more holes and had the door opened in 4 hours. The new style locks were bad, he put in an older style. They fill the holes with s.s. balls that they glue in. I bet I could be in it now in 10 minutes, with all the holes drilled behind the key pad. I tried to get them to replace the door. Not part of the warrenty from the key pad people. I would only buy the combo style. The electronic ones do malfunction and it happens more than what they tell you.

Thats what I am afraid of. Ill find one with a Combo.