Hotel Safe for Pistols and other valuables

Ganderite

Ganderite

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I bought some hotel safes.

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Some have been used for one year. Some are new. They were replaced because they will not hold a 17" laptop.

The safe is 16" wide, 9" high and 13 " deep. It is a well made (heavy) unit. You can see how thick the steel door is.

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It has holes on the floor and back wall so it can be bolted to a flat surface (mine is bolted to the top of a steel filing cabinet) or to a wall joist.

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It locks with whatever 4 digit number you punch in when you close the door. I have timed myself at 3 seconds to get it open.

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There is also an emergency back up number installed at the factory so that a hotel staff person can open a safe if a guest leaves it locked or forgets his combination. Because so many people know what the emergency back up
number is (it is even shown on You Tube) I have re-programmed the back up number. It is an easy to remember caliber.

I have two extras available in the Toronto GTA.

Gun Nutz in other parts of Canada should check with hotel supply outfits to see if they have any used units coming in on trade. I gather the 17" laptop is now so common the safes have to be bigger.
 
You can. That is one of the options. Any card with a magnetic strip can be used to lock it and then open it. If you did not have the card handy when you want to open it, the back up combo would work.
 
Ganderite said:
You can. That is one of the options. Any card with a magnetic strip can be used to lock it and then open it. If you did not have the card handy when you want to open it, the back up combo would work.
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You might want to check that. I believe it's either one or the other. If you program it with the card I don't think the keypad will work.
 
"You might want to check that. I believe it's either one or the other. If you program it with the card I don't think the keypad will work."

I never tried swiping it with a card until the subject came up in this discussion. here is how it works: You punch in a 4 digit code, like 3006 or 4570 and hit LOCK. It locks with that code in memory. To open just type in the same code number, and it opens. I suggest you use the same 4 digit PIN you use for something else where the PIN does not get changed very often.

If somehow it gets locked with the wrong number or you have a brain fart and forget what code you used, there is always the back up code that does not get changed. I have set it to an easy to remember caliber.

The card swipe can be used instead of number. I can see this being useful in a hotel, but I see no reason to use this at home. But it works. If you swipe it the door immediately locks. Another swipe and it opens.

If you locked it with a swipe, there is no number in memory, other than the backup number, which works just fine.

This is not a rinky dink lock box. This is a safe made of solid steel. They are too heavy to ship. About 50 lbs.

Thanks to 17" laptops, there should be a number of them on the market. This particular batch I got were purchased to install in a collage dorm, but the project got cancelled because of the laptop issue. That is why they are new or almost new. I am selling them for about what half of what the college paid for them.
 
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