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I just moved into a place with a (gun?) safe I don't know how to open. So technically I have one.
Is it an old fashioned one with a number wheel? Try 0-25-0 or 25-50-25. I learned that one from Richard Feynman.
Care to explain?
Long story, but TL;DR: These are the factory settings for most older combination locks.
Feynman in one of his books explained that he picked locks as a hobby during and after WW2. So he knew how to pick locks, but his method for combination locks was not practical, basically a guessing game. At some point, a safe (I think installed on special orders by some overseer of the Manhattan project) was locked and no one knew the combination. So someone sent for a locksmith to open it. Feynman was hoping to find this locksmith, so he could ask him how to open such a safe. But, when he came to the room with the safe, the safe was open and the locksmith gone.
So he did what any sane person would do; he found out the name of the locksmith, started following him around for a bit and ultimately bought him a drink in a bar. When he introduced himself the locksmith recognized his name, Feynman being notorious for his shenigans including lockpicking. So he asks the locksmith how to open this kind of safe, and the locksmith responds "no idea". So Feynman asks if he had no idea, why did he take the job and how did he open it. Then the locksmith explains that he was just going to show up, make some noise and all that, and then explain that he couldn't crack the safe, here's my bill thank you very much. But since he knew that these safes were all deliverd from the factory with either the standard combinations 0-25-0 or 25-50-25, he tried those first and that's how he opened the safe.
Feynman found it baffling that someone had a big heavy safe custom installed for him, but was then too lazy to change the combination. He also went around the labs (where a lot of files realting to the Manhattan project were kept), and found out that quite a few combination locks on the file cabinets were still set to default.
Nope, digital, and it beeps a lot if you mess with it.
Maybe search the lock picking lawyer's channel on youtube for the make and model.
Bruh you gotta update. Lemmy now deserve to know, you owe us the update. Open it lol. Don't leave us hanging on a cliffhanger
I doubt there's anything interesting. We did wonder whether the "numbers" were related. It's certainly got character!
The previous owner of our house had one, but luckily they took it with them