I have a large safe I would like to get open so I can use or rent it out. I bought this building about 15 yrs ago from city auction (was an old marine reserve building) and nobody knows the combination to the vault door.
It has a large door (about 7' by 4') and a combination with a lever to open the door. The door has the name MOSLER and a serial number on it. I have been thinking about cutting through the wall to get in but, I don't really want to destroy the integraty of the walls and I started thinking about using a stepper and let it run through the possable combinations until the door can be opened. If I set up a stepper and something to pull the lever and just let it run untill the door opens that would be great, It would not matter if it took a year to open the door.
The problem is I have no idea how the combination type doors work. Everyone I have talked to that was stationed at this reserve seems to think it was a three number combination door.
The dial has Numbers 0 - 99 numbered every 10. When I turn the dial you can feel two dentents, one on about 0 and one on about 10, (I was told this is something to do with adding security to the combination).
If someone has some ideas this would be great, How do you do combinations as in:
cw 2 turns - stop at 1st number - ccw past 1st number -stop at 2nd number - cw - stop at 3rd number or somthing like this?
Thanks for any ideas.
Jimmy