If you're going to pop the door off the hinges, be careful. Probably less expensive than cutting your safe up.
Barring that, call a locksmith and ask what their charge for popping open a cheap safe is. Don't ask me how I know this (again I am not a wise man), but it's an option. Spray, and jiggle that key, baby.ĭo you have AAA? I have a gold membership and can use their locksmith service to get into my house when my keys are locked inside. It's a cheap stack-on safe and hasn't seen much use at all, it's kinda weird but not impossible that maybe a little surface corrosion or a few stuck pins are holding you up. It's like $6 and useful all around the house. Look again.īuy the WD-40 and try that before moving on to anything else. Here's how I'd approach it:Īre you sure the key is in the right way? I've spent 20 minutes looking for my glasses before realizing they were on my face in the past. And yes, I am sure the key is in the right way. Any advice that excludes drilling out the lock or calling a locksmith would be welcome. Stack-on gun safe/cabinet won't open with key.
But I don't even know if that is possible.įiancé didn't write down model number or serial number before bolting this thing to the wall. The only thing I can think to do (if using the proper lubricant doesn't work) is possibly attempt to remove the pin from the hinge and wrestle the door off and have a look at the lock's mechanism internally. The clunk felt like it came from the mechanism and not from something falling over if that makes any sense. But I do not think something is interfering with the locking mechanism. I haven't sprayed anything in the lock yet because I do not know if itis all metal or if there are vinyl pieces that could be damaged by the use of certain chemicals. I have some Teflon stuff for bike chains and whatever gun cleaning stuff in aerosol cans that the guys left on the back porch. We do not have wd 40 to try and spray in the lock. The key turns maybe 1/8th of the way it is supposed to and won't go any further.
When I was locking it up with the key this past Sunday, it made a weird clunking sound. It has been opened maybe Two dozen times in the past 18 months. When our daughter was born, my fiancé bought a cheap stack-on gun safe.