Cracked my first S&G - Hayman Floor Safe
https://drive.google.com/open?id=18a7X87t6BIRN5EpmAhR2ftHdI4Wf-3J7
I have been graphing this thing off and on for about 30 hours (!!!) and was getting really frustrated. I would routinely find the number at 69/70 and it showed up best on AWR, and a bit fuzzy at AWL. Doing the High/Low test on 69.5 multiple times, it would show a split result between W2 and W3, inconclusive on the High/Low test, but very obviously a gate on a wheel somewhere in the pack!
Everybody bit of advice I've read on this forum and elsewhere mentions to take a light touch on the dial, and stop when you barely feel the contact points. On this safe, I think I had too light a touch - the dial was pretty stiff, and seemed to get stiffer 1/8 to 1/4 inside the perceived contact points. I am sure now (after so long of messing with it) that I wasn't reading the contact points at all, but stopping short on a lot of them and reading the stiffness of the lock instead of the points.
Going back on a 10th or so attempt graphing AWL, I started reading the more obvious stops on the Left and Right contact points, and low and behold I now saw a point around 12. This is in the middle of my contact points (7.7/13.25). Ran High/Low tests, conclusively determined that L12 was on W3. Great! I stopped there after graphing 7L. Oops. Bad move, instructions everybody mentions amplifying +/- 5 numbers, so that was amped 7-17. Stopping was a big mistake in this case. Read on to find out why!
So, I plugged W3 into an AWR graph, and positively identified 69.5, and H/L tests confirmed the same on W2. Not surprising, my wild variation in H/L tests on 69.5 earlier had W2/W3 jockying for position. That's because I should never have tested W3 in the first place, just W1/W2 in H/L testing. In both cases, W2 had a larger contact area, ignoring W3 completely in the test.
OK so I think I'm at 12 on W3, and 69.5 on W2. I brute force the lock at 2-increment all the way around 0-98 and back again, the second time absolutely more carefully. No-open.
Ok, something's wrong. I'm positively sure about the 69.5R point, and 75% sure around 12L at this point, but one of these must be off a bit because brute force didn't open the lock.
So I start testing x-69.5-13 around the entire dial. No dice. Then x-69.5-11. Then x-69.5-10. Then x-69.5-9. (this necessitated another daily break after hours of dialing). Next day, x-69.5-8. Hmm. Something feels different. New day? Better feeling in fingertips? I decide to check contact points at 98-69.5-8, 97-69.5-7, holy smokes - there's a gate there.
I fiddled with it another hour or so. Found it. 6-70-5. Last number in the "forbidden zone". Two numbers within 1.5 increments of one of the contact points. Safe opened!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=18Wqlqizxz988ATxCcP69ZMUCjWyUUboS
I then went and re-checked graphs for 0-10 again, and low and behold, I DO see a drop at 6. Oops. I wasted 20+ hours looking over something I didn't look closely enough at. I never got down that far because I was fixated on "12" on the graph.
Showing what I thought was a gate at 12:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=180BSIt14GlhEJp8qaivZSkk5Hd6Hhu9g
Cheers!!