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Locked out of digital safe

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TheMsTeal
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Help! The batteries have died on my digital safe and the keys are inside (I know!) I have looked at vids on YouTube but none of the advice works. Cutting it open would probably be the only solution, does anyone know approx charge for this?

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  • helcat26
    helcat26 Posts: 1,119 Forumite
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    you can sometimes take the touchpad off and there is a means of resetting it.
    have you thought of ringing the manufacturer?
  • Biggles
    Biggles Posts: 8,209 Forumite
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    helcat26 wrote: »
    have you thought of ringing the manufacturer?
    Their phone number's inside the safe!

    But, seriously, the battery cover's usually accessible from the front of the safe so that you can change them.
  • TheMsTeal
    TheMsTeal Posts: 331 Forumite
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    Thanks for reply but battery pad is inside safe - I had to change them a while ago. I will
    call around a few locksmiths next week. The safe is quite a few years old no manufacture label on outside. Thanks anyway.
  • Badrick
    Badrick Posts: 605 Forumite
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    If it's one of the cheaper safes, they'll open with a good downward blow to the case above door whilst simultaneously lightly turning the handle to open.
    You may need to hit with a piece of wood or similar to get enough force to bounce the spring mechanism.

    I've been opening mine this way for ages since the batteries died. :o
    Dunno how they could call it a "safe".
    Mark Steyn has stated, "In the UK, everything is policed except crime."
  • Mr.Generous
    Mr.Generous Posts: 3,379 Forumite
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    I had to cut one open when brother locked passports inside, angle grinder did it in about 5 mins.
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 9,988 Forumite
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    We had to have our hotel safe drilled a couple of weeks back when it went wrong. Took 2 men 90 minutes and 3 drill bits to get in.
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  • TheMsTeal
    TheMsTeal Posts: 331 Forumite
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    Thanks will give this a go.
  • Butterfly_Brain
    Butterfly_Brain Posts: 8,862 Forumite
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    My outlaws did this with their safe, but a local locksmith managed to get it open, only cost £20, considering the deeds for the house, insurances etc were in there it was worth the price. They even had a new lock put on it
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