not exactly sure of the exact date of manufacture, but it's a Cabelas 22 gun manufactured by Granite Safe Co....story is, my steel building (Quonset hut style) collapsed this last winter from all the snow...and i'm assuming the floor of the garage had a few inches of water in it at least at some point.
i climbed in through the roof last week to assess the damage, and the combo lock on my safe doesn't seem to be working. i don't know if moisture got into it through the holes in the bottom where it it bolted to the concrete floor.
could moisture stop one of these locks from working? i took a few of my high dollar items out of the safe late last year, but my grampas 1954 browning a-5 is still in there, along with my colt mk5 and my e series 1911 and all my swiss/russian rifles. i don't even want to move the safe with all those guns in there as they'll probably get destroyed.
anyone ever have one of these mechanical locks fail before?
should i just wait for a string of really dry days and hope it was just moisture? should i tap the dial with a rubber mallet? i have no experience with this sort of thing.
thanks in advance for any help.
Mike
i climbed in through the roof last week to assess the damage, and the combo lock on my safe doesn't seem to be working. i don't know if moisture got into it through the holes in the bottom where it it bolted to the concrete floor.
could moisture stop one of these locks from working? i took a few of my high dollar items out of the safe late last year, but my grampas 1954 browning a-5 is still in there, along with my colt mk5 and my e series 1911 and all my swiss/russian rifles. i don't even want to move the safe with all those guns in there as they'll probably get destroyed.
anyone ever have one of these mechanical locks fail before?
should i just wait for a string of really dry days and hope it was just moisture? should i tap the dial with a rubber mallet? i have no experience with this sort of thing.
thanks in advance for any help.
Mike