Re: Gardex GX1 Fire safe....
I am totally at a loss. Maybe I will just bring it to work and crush it with an excavator. Lol...
Squelchtone wrote:mattinbc:
I'm still learning manipulation and by no means an expert, but I have opened a handful of safes and wanted to share some tips. It took a while to develop a good eye and feel for when the nose just begins to hit the contact point on either side of the drive cam. I dial with only my index finger and thumb, and grip the dial so lightly that my fingers almost slip across it if there is too much resistance. When I park on a number and dial back to the contact point test area, I close my eyes and roll over the contact point 3 or 4 times, each time trying to detect it sooner and sooner until i'm happy with how it feels, then I open my eye to make a reading. This way your brain and eyes arent just always going to the same spot where you expect to see the dial stop. This probably takes me longer than it should, but I feel like I get more accurate readings. Something I read in one of the .PDF safe manipulation guides floating around is to always take the readings looking dead on at the opening index, and to always keep it consistent, so I'm not checking one reading from the left, and the next reading from the right, because that may make a huge difference in accuracy.
Can you speak to your own method of how you like to grip the dial, and are you using any magnifying devices like a magnifying lens or a macro usb web cam, etc, and is this the first safe you are dialing or have you manipulated before?
Keep up the effort, it will be open soon!
Squelchtone
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