Any idea what it was doing in your garage? Sounds like it came from a bank.

Michael W

Edited By Michael Walters on 21/09/2016 13:02:50

Any idea what it was doing in your garage? Sounds like it came from a bank.

No idea, it's probbly from a pub or a Jewellers or a bookies years ago.

Definitely empty, have checked numerous times lol

Was a bit ho-hum with it at first… but then found Model Engineering as a hobby and the rest as they say is history, wouldn't dream of selling or scrapping it now.

Sam, it's a Colchester Master , 6 1/2".

I'd imagine it might've belonged to a local bank like there used to be many of. 250kg is definitely not something you can walk off with, deliberately of course. It sounds like a piece that was made for the job. Does it have one of those fancy wheel lock handles you often see on a hefty safe?

Does it have any anchoring fixings on the legs? If you bought this, heavy as it is, i'd imagine you'd want it perminently fixed to the floor? (not that it's going to move but just to make sure!) 

Michael W

Edited By Michael Walters on 21/09/2016 20:22:05

Edited By Michael Walters on 21/09/2016 20:22:58

The top, base sides & front are probably bomb proof whilst the back can be opened with a tin opener.

What make ?  Chubb, Chatwood Milner, SLS ??

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 21/09/2016 20:33:10

Many years ago I used to work for a transport company who had a big old fashioned safe upstairs and they bought a new one to replace it.

So 4 very burly lorry driver were tasked with getting it downstairs to get rid of it. Due to the weight they got it downstairs, into the canteen and broke off for a cuppa and that's where it stayed.

We used it to keep the tea, coffee and sugar in. It was never locked in fact the key hug on a nail at the side of it.

So one Monday morning we rolled up for work and we had been burgled. can't remember after all these years what went missing but the safe was one of the items.

The police found it three days later on some waste land with the back cut off and the tea and coffee missing.

It was till unlocked

Hi All ,

something similar…….my best friend moved into an large victorion property….

found the safe, huge bloody thing, took six of us to carry it out on doubled planks…….dumped it in the front garden, was gonna dig a hole and bury it…..u guessed it, gone in the morning……

we dumped 40 feet from the road and the garden was at least 12 foot above the pavement…….hahaha……

clogs

After I sold my joinery business I found I still had 2 No 10ft lengths of light roller conveyors left.( no legs just laid flat on the ground) I used them for moving all sorts of heavy loads from sections of my timber framed house when I built it, to some RSJ's & pallets, plus my safe which is a bit more than 250 KG. Just a case of load it on, & a light push, & away you go. Just do not let it roll off the end !!!

I have no problem moving my safe, I just take away all the gold in a wheelbarrow. The safe can be easily moved by one of the staff.

You are right about fire safe. I was asked to try and re-weld one that had been stolen and the back axed into. Found a lot of some sort of powder inside, between the walls. Impossible to weld even using arc. Had to power wash , dry and clean , still difficult to weld but good enough to keep papers in. Someone will know what the powder was.