all right aaron parker parker safe and
vault so
i want to go over uh some some operating
uh procedures
and maybe some troubleshooting as it
relates to these
mechanical locks most of them operate
the same
there are some some differences in some
uh with some different manufacturers so
you know don't just take my word for it
look at your look at your manual but if
you have a sergeant in green leaf
or like this one this is a big red lock
they're going to work the same way this
is a group 2 lock
so a group 1 might work a little bit
different but these these are real
standard locks
and so i'm going to go over just kind of
how to open these
or you know run that run the combination
and and open the
the lock and then maybe some things to
do if you're having some problems all
right
so this particular um
this combination the number on this one
is 36
11 45 so what you want to do is turn to
the left right or counter clockwise
would be a better description but
um so we want to go left right left
counter clockwise clockwise
counterclockwise and
and then eventually end up with going
one more time to the right or
count or clockwise so what i mean by
that is if we're if we're going to be
turning this
lock to the left sometimes this
this messes with people a little bit
because the numbers look like it's going
to the right if you look at this little
um opening index mark here it looks like
it's traveling to the right i'm not
talking about that i'm talking about the
dial
itself you're going to turn it
physically to the left or
counterclockwise and what we want to do
on this first
go around here before we ever look at a
number is just turn it four or five
times
maybe five or six seven or eight it
doesn't really matter on this first time
how many times
you do it as long as it's more than four
and what that does is resets everything
in there
um another thing that we might want to
do if we get a little bit of drift back
occasionally or as you re-grip you're
you're having a hard time keeping it
going to the left as you re-grip you're
going to the right a little bit
just put it this outer part here does
not move
this is the dial ring so just put your
finger rested on that dial ring and then
and then keep a little friction on the
dial itself
and that'll keep you from drifting back
excuse me drifting back the other way
so we'll go to the left five or six
times
and then we're going to stop at 36.
36 is our first number we hit 36 we're
done with that number now we don't have
to think about it again
now we're going to go to the right and
now i got to get precise in my counting
our next number is 11.
it's going to come up fairly quickly but
you count it every time it goes by
i'm watching for it right here there
goes eleven and this
this time i want to see it three times
eleven twice
and eleven three times
okay now we're done with 11. we'll be
going to our last number which is 45
it's going to be over here
and we want to watch it come by twice
i'm going back to the left there's 45
once and 45
twice now we're still not in this is a
this is a common error a lot of times
you think you should be in right now
you're done with your numbers
why am i not in okay well i'll tell you
why
if we look at this this is the back of a
lock okay this is your lock box with the
cover
sorry with the cover removed here so
what we have in there
the reason those what we're doing with
those numbers is we're getting these
little guys see that little notch there
it's actually called a fence
um and a gate here but but basically
what we're going to do is
we're going to bring that around by
turning the dial okay
we're going to bring that around and
we're going to park it right underneath
this lever arm right here and then we go
get the other one and we bring it around
and this
through a combination we end up with all
of them
right underneath that lever arm and that
lever arm has this long arm that goes
all the way back across here it's not
just this piece that you're looking at
so if we have three of these notches
right in other words we have three
wheel packs we get all of those lined up
back there
then there's room for this lever to just
drop in it's spring loaded right
so there's a spring right here it wants
to travel that way
so if there's room it'll drop into place
right this last sequence i'll show you
what i mean
but if there's room it'll drop into
place when it drops into place
then it's going to pick up this cam
right here
right this little nose of this thing
goes into that little
recess right there and it grabs it and
then if i keep turning
i'm going to grab the nose of this which
has which is
you know attached to this locking bolt
and i'm going to raise that up
and it only goes so far but it'll come
past this and go straight up
and it'll raise this locking bolt up and
that's what unlocks the safe
so this last step is to just go to the
right
and we need a little resistance there
around zero
and then just keep turning and that
raises that locking bolt all the way up
and we're free
and clear okay and we're in now when you
lock your dial you're going to turn your
handle all the way to the left
and just spin this off we're going to
spin it four or five times to the left
that's locked okay but i also want to
show you what this key
how this key works so a lot of these um
a lot of these locks are set up with
this day use feature with this key
i'm not a big fan of them i'm i worry
that um
that people start locking their space
with just the key and it's just not
secure if you do that
you've reduced the entire you've reduced
the big lock down to this little lock
and it's just not secure so don't do
that
right but what the idea is is a day use
feature
so in other words a store owner they can
show up early in the morning
go through the lock the combination like
we just did
then we can ensure insert the key roll
this to zero
which remember we brought it up so if we
roll it back
the other way it sends it back down so
now the dial
or i'm sorry the locking bolt is in the
way of the bolt works
and what i can do with the key now is
just lock it there
so we're locked and locked then you know
throughout the day
we can get in by just using the key
everything now would turn to the right
to the right
to the right back to the stopping point
raise it raise that locking board up
we can get in get our stuff shut the
door
and go back to zero take the key with us
we're locked okay the problem that the
problem
that i see is that you know if if if at
any time a bad guy shows up
and that you can just pick this lock or
you can break it with a screwdriver
and you're in because the big lock on
the inside is open right so we can just
unlock it and we're in okay or just
break it or pick it or whatever it's an
easy lock to pick
okay so that's what the key is all about
so you really don't ever need the key
um you know just get in the habit of
going through the combination
every time you want in you know you go
through the combination when you want to
lock it you spin it off
the key doesn't have it's not an
override so it's not going to unlock it
if it's spun off
it only works if you if you're only part
way locked
and where you where the big where
everything's open on the inside
you've just sent the locking bolt down
in the way now sometimes if you have
kids or something like that you just
don't want anybody to
mess with the dial then you can lock it
zero
but that means every time you want in
you're gonna need the key all right so
so just remember that you don't have to
have this key you don't have to use it
uh if it works for you as a day use
feature or just a
lock to keep the kids from spinning your
your dial all the time
that's great but you don't have to have
it all the time
now as far as troubleshooting goes okay
so
if um let's say you're having a real
hard time getting in
the first thing you can do is is
oscillate the um
oscillate the die and what i mean by
that is just jiggle this so
remember step four we went through our
numbers one two three we did all that
and then we're at our last number and
we're going to turn to the right
as we turn to the right when we get to
about 15 we want to just
just jiggle this it's kind of like you
know it's real quick
and what we're trying to do is create a
little bit of of um
vibration in there and and send that and
try to get this little locking
um or i'm sorry this little lever arm to
drop
in okay and by sometimes if
if your if your wheel packs if
maybe you didn't quite get them exactly
right so these are offset you know a
couple of those are just a hair off
well by oscillating this a little bit
just a little bit
and as fast as you can it kind of
creates a little bit of vibration in
there
and allow that lever arm to drop into
place okay
so that's one trick the the next thing
that i would try would be if we're still
not in yet
i would try you know on this combination
here we've got
uh 38 11 45
and so you might try uh maybe 30
i usually try the the second number up
two i don't know it seems to always work
for me
but anyway what we're trying is maybe
the combination isn't exactly right okay
maybe it moved or the guy that said it
these are all set by humans right
so maybe made an error and maybe the
combination isn't 11 maybe it's 13 or
14.
so if we try 36 14
45 maybe that'll let us in if not let's
try 36
9 45 and then we can start with these
other
outer two numbers maybe 38 11 45
34 11 45 and so on we're gonna go
up two down 2 on every number all the
way through there and kind of keep
keep track of it and see which one works
if one works
that can just be your new number it
might just work forever like that
if you need somebody to come and reset
it you want to go back to
you know what the actual number should
be once you get the door open
leave it open and have somebody come in
and and
you know a safe tech or locksmith have
them reset that or if you're comfortable
doing it yourself
got to get into the back of the lock box
there's a little
on the on the cover plate there's a
little diamond hole and you're going to
insert a change key into that little
slot and turn it and
anyway it's a whole process you can
research that or maybe i'll make a video
of that okay
so uh and if all that doesn't work so we
we've tried the oscillating thing
we've tried we've tried uh up that up
two numbers
down two numbers on every number and
that didn't work then the last thing we
can do is as we come back across
oh my god this lossy has still got there
as we come back we'll park it
we'll stop so we're we went from we went
from our third
number our our third step we went from
our last number
and we're going to go back to where it
should pick up where it should stop
but we're gonna stop at eight so just
stop right there around eight
and then we're gonna get a little bit
aggressive here we're gonna take a
mallet
and on a safe like this you'd wanna put
some fabric here and you know something
some padding
um but you know maybe some cardboard on
just to pad it of course you don't want
to mar up your safe and then you don't
have to hit it super hard but what we're
going to do is just tap in here
harder than that but i don't wanna i
don't wanna hurt to save so
uh you know you're gonna hit it pretty
hard and what we're trying to do is
create that vibration again it's the
same thing we're trying to do with that
oscillating
we're trying to get that lever to fall
into place okay so sometimes by
by smacking this face right here not the
lock
but up here somewhere or on the sides
we're just trying to
you know get get enough vibration in
there to um
to let that lever fall into place
another thing you can do
is keep a little pressure you can run
your keep a little pressure on your
handle
hold it to the left run your combination
see if that helps
hold it to the right run your
combination and see if that helps
and you can also kind of jiggle this
while you're oscillating sometimes that
puts a little bit more vibration in
there and also on the stuck lever
sequence which
we were just talking about where we
dialed it at eight and we're going to
try to smack it here with a hammer
sometimes if i'm you know smacking in
and rolling
running the handle a little bit or or
moving the handle around
uh that'll let it go when it goes you'll
generally see it because it'll
it'll just it'll just kind of um move
just a hair
and you'll see that you know that lever
dropped into place and then you continue
to turn
and it'll stop right there and you're in
so if that if you had to go through that
stuck lever sequence to get in
when you get the door open call somebody
call locksmith or a safe tech and have
them come and service the lock or reset
it make sure it's working well before
you shut it
there's nothing worse than and finally
getting into your safe
and then thinking you're okay and
shutting it and you have the same darn
problem right so we don't want to do
that if you get in finally
let's make sure before we ever shut the
door again
that we're good to go all right so
that's pretty much it on the mechanical
locks
if you have any questions on that leave
them in the comments the next thing
we're going to talk about here
is the uh electronic locks so
i have a couple of these sitting here
this is um
well let's start with this one this is
the uh american security
esl5 they make an esl
10 and an esl 20. and they're they're
very good locks very reliable locks
but if we're going to have a problem or
if we when we have a problem with a
mechanical
or sorry when we have a problem with a
an electronic lock it's generally the
battery it's almost
always a power supply right so
uh you've got to know how to change that
battery and we want to use an
alkaline name brand battery only okay so
don't try a lithium none of that stuff
unless the manufacturer
specs it out uh generally speaking we
want to do a name brand
alkaline battery okay and that's that
can
dead batteries are almost always a
problem so
check your expiration date on the
battery make sure it's a nice fresh
battery if you've got to go to the store
to buy one
buy the newest one they've got you know
you don't always you don't have to
change your batteries you know routinely
or anything like that i i
kind of recommend changing them when you
change the uh
you know like your smoke detectors or
something like that
but you might you could get i've heard
of people having the same battery for
like seven years so
up to you on that they generally have
some kind of a
a little tone that will go off kind of
like a smoke detector will start
chirping at you
when it's time to change the battery but
you know i would recommend maybe
changing them once a year just just so
you don't have to be locked out
and when you do change it you're going
to open the door
and do everything with the door open
change the batteries with the door open
and then before you ever shut the door
we're going to test the lock
okay so make sure you do that that way
something bad doesn't happen
we're always going to test the door when
we can with the uh
or test the lock when we can with the
door open okay so the esl
esl locks these are just going to turn
off to turn off
they're going to rotate and your battery
is going to be right in there
all right so on the esl 20 you're going
to have two batteries
but then they just go back on kind of
kind of a skew
here from from center and then they
rotate into place
all right and they're not all the same
so be careful
so um like the the kaaba
and the guards they're going to bump up
they're going to bump up from the bottom
they're on two posts
and you bump them up and then you've got
the battery it'll look like this
this is one right here so acaba
or la guard they're going to look about
the same
and you're just going to bump those up
straight up off some
posts and then you can change your
battery it'll be sitting right in there
and just
plug a new battery in the sergeant green
leafs a lot of them anyway they're not
all the same but this is kind of
three of the most common locks they're
going to have this little gate right
here
and in that reservoir there we go
in that reservoir is where the battery
resides and then you're just gonna
close this little gate right here okay
so open the gate pull the battery out
from the bottom
and then close the gate so i think that
um that's you know those questions right
there what i get a lot of times is hey
how do i even change a battery where is
it at well
there's the three most common i think
those would be the most common
uh battery locations all right so i hope
that helps out and
if you guys have any questions there in
the comments um
or leave them in the comments and we'll
try to get to you as soon as we can
but i think i covered everything i was
trying to trying to cover
so thanks for having a look i really
appreciate it