Squelchtone wrote:impressive work!
What do you consider an average/normal opening time when you're at some office and the secretaries are hovering around watching you manipulate a safe with a 6730 on it? do you test factory combo's first or just start dialing AWL or AWR? Do you find it is faster to just take note of one contact point or do you check left and right contact points?
I saw the blue and green tape you use, may I suggest something I use at work for mic cables, it's called gaff tape, or gaffers tape, it is a cloth tape, which does not leave residue when lifted off, and it will stick your gear to the safe doors better than painters tape or the green tape. It also looks pretty tacti-cool since it is grey or black. you can also write on it with silver sharpie. Another good thing about it is you can easily hand tear it into small strips to mark things like opening indexes, etc. Instead of carrying the whole roll around, you can tape a few feet of it and roll it around a sharpie, then you have tape and sharpie all in one at all times and it fits in your tool box better than a big honkin roll. here's an example, and yes, it's that expensive normally
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Pre ... B00GZE3UJ8Thanks
Squelchtone
I've learned that there is no average time. Sometimes its 15 minutes sometimes its 2 hours. Even on practice locks I will get it this time in 6 minutes, reset the combo and then it can take 1 hour. And that's on the same lock!
I used to do AWL religiously but then 1 time AWL wasn't revealing any gates at all so I decided just to fiddle with AWR and AWR revealed gates so obviously. So now I have included AWR into the regular routine.
In regards to left and right contact points the ramp is a more reliable source of information because it MUST be a ramp the other contact point isn't that reliable (although it usually is) . My most used time saving method it to check contact points by 2 starting with even numbers.. If no gates are revealed I will repeat the process using the odd numbers I skipped.
I like the gaff tape idea, my only concern is removing paint when I taken the tape off. Then I also tape scrap paper on the door so I can write stuff down in case I am interrupted.
I've thought of buying a magnetic scope but I use the scope only in seemingly impossible locks and that's pretty rare so the cost for the magnetic scope I just can't justify. But I will definitely look into gaff tape.