Both times, somebody lost the combination. In nearly thirty years I've had to call the guys in the lock shop only twice to "pop" a lock. Having worked daily with mechanical combination spin locks for my entire career I can attest to their unfailing reliability. You will give up speed and convenience, but you will gain security and reliability. I advise anyone who made the mistake of getting an electronic lock to make the easy switch to a reliable mechanical lock for their gun safe. The locksmith even had the parts on his truck (apparently, these failures are rather common), and spent no more than an hour on site. For less than $200, including the parts, service call and labor, the locksmith came the same day the lock failed, and replaced the failed electronic lock with a traditional mechanical dial lock that should last as long as the safe. The inner motorized lock had failed, but the keypad had to be destroyed to remove the lock.įortunately, the solution was fast, easy, and not too expensive. I should also note that they are not even designed to be serviced. The locksmith said that he considers them unreliable. While our safe has a lifetime guarantee, the keypad and lock have only a 5-year guarantee. It turns out that the handy electronic keypad locks just arent terribly reliable. Even the idea of being unable to get our passports onthe morning of an international trip is unthinkable. The locksmith said that these locks usually fail locked, and I cant imagine finding this out after a crisis, and being left without most of our guns. Thankfully, it failed in the open condition so we had access to our valuables, and didnt need to have the safe professionally drilled open. We have a 6-year-old Liberty brand gun safe, and its Sargent and Greenleaf (the top brand) electronic keypad lock recently failed. Here is this Freeper’s coincidental experience from two weeks ago today: It’s not the Cannon brand, it’s all electronic locks.
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