First Alert Gun Safe Locked shut

[racingfast]

WELL.... just reachin out on a limb... the trucking co driver notes the combo and the home address.. Gets drunk and blabs to his drunken buddies of a huge safe delivered to this ritzy place with Ferraris and Lambos.... so they break in and are in the safe in 3 turns...

Not that this is why FIRST ALERT doesnt do that... it makes TOO MUCH sense.... just sayin...

[libra8]

I assumed the safe would be covered in some sort of packaging.

But you know what happens when one assumes...

[racingfast]

It had a cardboard box thats all... just peek in and get that combo...

[DClan]

Maybe the combos on the bottom, just flip that bad boy over and look. ......kidding.

[Statkowski]

Can you change the combination to a new one? Then you can make it whatever you want. One trick I used on the combinations I had to come up with was a common object located near the safe - as long as it was a six-letter word (e.g., "OFFICE," "WINDOW," "AUGUST," "SUPPLY," etc.). Convert the word to numbers using the telephone's keypad ("OFFICE" becomes "633423") and you end up with a combination not written down anywhere ("63-34-23") - although writing it down and taping it to the back of a refrigerator or stove (or somewhere else) might not hurt.

Once the safe was opened, a Sergeant & Greenleaf lock required a changing key. A Mosler safe lock required the back plate of the combination mechanism being removed using a screwdriver, then setting the plastic disks inside to reflect the new combination.

Remember, if you do change the combination, MAKE SURE IT WORKS before closing the safe.

[racingfast]

Another call to FIRST ALERT CUST SVC is needed for this answer... no where in the manual did it say how to do this but it sure would make sense to have this option for failing memories of senior consumers LOL

Then again, so many things these days require common sense and its SO MISSING.

Still may look into a better larger safe....

[gracenrich]

First alert safe jammed.
They would pay a maximum of $75.00 toward locksmith cost.
Then they wanted a notorized letter from locksmith that the safe was defective.
This is junk and should be avoided.

[free]

If you had those kind of problems right off the bat, customer service sucks and the manual is wrong what is going to happen down the road? I'd still think about sending it back.

His first mistake was buying a "First Alert" safe....but hey, at least he saved some money.

[free]

First alert safe jammed.
They would pay a maximum of $75.00 toward locksmith cost.
Then they wanted a notorized letter from locksmith that the safe was defective.
This is junk and should be avoided.

Yeah....that much should be obvious by the fact it is sold by "First Alert".

Pro Tip: Sentry safes suck as well.

[Bang]

Second mistake, maybe, post is from January 26th, 2014